Wellness

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) ...

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 ...

Glass of the Good

By Deborah HerriagePhotography by Jenna Noel Over the last several years, Austin has seen a growth in markets that provide fresh, organic, low-calorie-yet-tasty, nutrient-dense drinks. Juice bars ...

Healing Health Care

!By Oran B. Hesterman, Ph.D. President and CEO of the Fair Food Network Up close and personal. That was my experience with the health-care system when I was 36 years old and lying in a hospital bed ...

Reshaping Our Future Through Food

By Kristi WillisPhotography courtesy of HISD, Bianca Bidiuc and Kate Adamick of Cook for America The statistics are staggering and the word epidemic is bandied about frequently. According to the ...

Growing Well

Photography of Kerri Keaton Hughey and Ed Hughey by Paige Newton What do cooking and eating like our grandparents did have to do with saving the world? More than you might think, says the married ...