Spring cleaning your nutrition

We all get stuck in food ruts when we eat the same thing day after day, leaving us feeling bored and unmotivated with our meal plan. Even though we’re bored, sometimes it’s easie...

How much do our diets influence our brain activity?

What we eat can affect our mental health and the way we think

TOPS weight-loss group installs new officers to ‘Sound of Chapter Music’

The Journal The Cortez chapter of the national weight-loss group Take Off Pounds Sensibly held its installation ceremony on Aug. 3. The theme for the installation was “...

Foods to eat to facilitate a better night’s sleep

Do you have “healthy” sleep patterns? With Thanksgiving having kicked off the holidays and Christmas on the way, it’s this time of year that we may find ourselves cutting sleep (e...

The Metabolic Approach to Cancer takes on disease with food

Two Durango-based health professionals wrote the book on cancer and nutrition

Go slowly with those New Year’s resolutions, nutritionist says

It’s common to resolve to swear off sweets and sign up for a gym membership for the new year. But Kelly Proctor, a health advocate and nutritionist, advises starting out slowly r...

City staff sheds 428 pounds

Don Cornett is a 52-year-old Cortez public works employee with eight grandchildren. He’s lost nearly 50 pounds over the last 24 weeks. “Before, all I could do was sit and watch my...