By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist SMOKE. You can’t avoid it right now. It’s in your neighborhood, your car, your office, your eyes, lungs, everywhere. Even your clothes smell like stale campfire. By now,...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist All winter long, I fantasize about the activities of the summer. This is going to be the summer, I think, the summer I get wicked ripped, learn how...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist I’m not sure if it is the lake town atmosphere, our celebration of sunshine, or the general social acceptability of alcoholism, but it generally feels as though most...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist The Brown Dog and I were out for our morning run complete with her bow of pink toiletry totes. She’s a lady, so we use sophisticated terminology instead...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist I was running on a trail this weekend alongside a stranger who said his name was Mike and that he’d slid down that slippery slope of not exercising...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist I never understood the saying, “You cannot have your cake and eat it.” If your cake is big enough, you can. And if you eat it slowly enough,...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist Science, actually. Detoxification is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxins from a living organism, and for the purposes of today, we’ll assume we’re talking about the human...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist Perhaps Lao Tzu said it most plainly: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” It’s that time of the year again....
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist “You could stop eating the butter mints on your secretary’s desk each day,” says Kenny. I roll my eyes at him. Really? The butter mints? My life will...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist For a while now, thanks to Dr. Oz and other preachers of panaceas, we’ve been hearing about these incredible wonders of the nutritional world: Superfoods. But what exactly...
