Wellness

Honey Beauty

by Kathy White Sumerian clay tablets recorded poetry about this golden elixir as long ago as 2000 B.C., and it was often used as a symbol for love in Egyptian poetry. Cakes made with it were offered ...

Natural Skin Care

by Elizabeth Winslow • Photography by Jenna Northcutt The skin you’re in is the only skin you’ve got. It only makes sense, then, to take good care of it—it has to last a ...

Food Service Just Got Healthier

If standing at your job is the magical health cure some say it is, then restaurant employees should be set for life. At least, they might be if it weren’t for all the hustle and bustle that ...

bRUNch

Dash and Dine by Steve Wilson Runners in a Sunday group jog used to be lucky to get a paper cup of water for their trouble. Now, they get bRUNch. The idea is simple: meet outside a restaurant at ...

GB Khalsa

by Jodi Egerton • Photography by Jote Khalsa On a crisp morning, midwife GB Khalsa and I sit together over steaming mugs of chai at Radio Coffee & Beer in South Austin. We’re ...

Mobile Loaves & Fishes

by Megan Giller • Photography by Jo Ann Santangelo In the late ’90s, entrepreneur Alan Graham spent most nights handing out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to Austin’s homeless. As a recent ...

A Cup of Healthcare

What’s an effective way for a hospital to honor the mission statement to “create healthy” and also connect with the surrounding community? For Hill Country Memorial Hospital (HCM) ...

Diabetes: Finding the Balance

By Kristi Willis Laurie Gonzales, a department manager at the University of Texas in her early 40s, was not surprised when she found out she had type 2 diabetes. She was overweight, had a history of ...

An Ounce of Prevention

When Dr. Jeremy Wiseman tells his primary-care patients at Wiseman Family Practice that they should know where their food comes from, it isn’t just lip service. In fact, instead of going to the ...

Outdoor Pharmacy

By Laura McKissack Long before modern chemistry, man relied on plants to heal, protect and manipulate the body. Many medicinal herbs grow very well in Central Texas, and a medicine garden can be ...