February 15, 2005

Ronald McDonald is the new Jenny Craig. Last month, news broke that a North Carolina woman shed 37 pounds in 90 days by dining only beneath the glow of the Golden Arches. No way, right?

It’s 6:30 a.m. on a Saturday, and Stephen Stromberg is carefully arranging his gear — goggles, black swim cap and running shoes. Wearing a trisuit, Stromberg sucks down a Power Gel for fuel for the 750-meter swim and 3K run that lie ahead, then trots over to the beach at Tempe Town Lake.

It's that time of year. The nights are long, the mornings are chilly. Maybe you're sniffling and sneezing, coughing and clammy and ready to be done with your all-too-common cold.

This year, Christmas with the Barker family is about the holiday magic found in the eyes of a 2-year-old. As Jack Barker and his family picked out a Christmas tree Monday evening in Gilbert, his mom, Rachel, mused about the transition in her thinking about the holiday now that the sprite 2-year-old Jack is around.

Why do kids love food courts? And why if Scottsdale Fashion Square was open on Christmas Day, you’d still find several hundred teenagers ordering lunch? The answer is found by coming to terms with the idea that youngsters’ food preferences aren’t as narrow as you might think.

In the new year many of us start to think about changes we can do to help make it a better year. We may have been taught that it is healthy to write down resolutions that include goals and timelines. It is the American way to push towards a goal and work hard at achieving them. We hear messages like, "Be all you can be" or "Work hard and play hard." Is this actually good for our health and wellbeing? Could these messages we are hearing about push, drive, goals, timelines, and strive, be actually bad for our health?

In the new year many of us start to think about changes we can do to help make it a better year. We may have been taught that it is healthy to write down resolutions that include goals and timelines. It is the American way to push towards a goal and work hard at achieving them. We hear messages like, "Be all you can be" or "Work hard and play hard." Is this actually good for our health and wellbeing? Could these messages we are hearing about push, drive, goals, timelines, and strive, be actually bad for our health?

If the number of failed New Year’s resolutions are any indication, eating healthy in a fast-paced world still isn’t all that easy.

Animal owners concerned by the recent pet food recall can find healthy, natural alternatives in the East Valley and in their own refrigerator.

Building and keeping muscle, our metabolically active tissue, is the key for long-term health, vitality, longevity and fat loss.

Building and keeping muscle, our metabolically active tissue, is the key for long-term health, vitality, longevity and fat loss.

According to the Government Accountability Office, the federal government operates 50 different programs for the homeless. There are 23 programs in housing, 26 for food and nutrition, 130 for at-risk youth. They also operate an astounding 342 programs for economic development, which government is notoriously bad at anyway.

Summer is fast approaching and, even if you are not leaving town, the hot weather can make it hard to keep focused on fitness.

Cori McClure works hard to maintain her hard body.

Unable to defeat childhood obesity with public relations campaigns, state health officials are going to start using their power to force parents to buy healthier items.

The commercial real estate market has been going through some transition over the past few years, but experts at Zell Commercial Real Estate have a positive outlook for the future of Ahwatukee Foothills as more companies are moving in, creating more opportunity for local businesses.

The human body does two things really well — consume food and save energy.

The human body does two things really well — consume food and save energy.

July 15, 2004

Scottsdale-based P.F. Chang’s China Bistro is the third most profitable U.S. restaurant chain, an industry watcher said Tuesday.

“I screwed in a new, florescent-style bulb a few months ago. Now, I’m hearing that average global temperatures are at 100-year lows. Man, those ideas do work.”

Q: My children want to grow a pineapple. If a pineapple can be grown in the low desert, how is it done?

It’s hard to believe it’s that time of year again, heralded by crisp, frosty mornings, and the incessant gobbling of nervous turkeys. As this special day of giving thanks approaches, it’s appropriate to take a break from computer questions and answers, and focus on Thanksgiving itself.