Our findings suggest that the common behavior of burning the candle during the week and trying to make up for it on the weekend is not an effective health strategy,” said senior author Kenneth...
Plane crashes, random shootings and the sound of a sleeping baby are all fodder for Denver poet Wayne Miller. His latest book is “Post-” It recently won the Rilke Prize and is a Colorado Book...
Childhood obesity and rates of Type 2 diabetes are rising across the country, and while researchers have a handle on some of the main culprits – sugary foods and inactivity, for instance – there still is much to be done to determine just how much is too much or how little is too little in order to keep children healthy.
During the day of lost sleep they consumed about 20 percent more calories than usual. The next day the children got as much sleep as needed but still ate more than normal. Researchers say the...
A year after Esther Sullivan graduated from the University of Chicago – an English major and a produced playwright – Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans. Sullivan volunteered with humanitarian organizations working in the city, “sleeping on a cot in a gutted elementary school and working to clear out people’s flooded homes.”
According to Michele Okun, health researcher at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, a single night of shortened or poor-quality slumber can compromise an individual's mood and...
You might know Roger Pielke Jr. as a University of Colorado Boulder environmental studies professor, Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and the founder of the CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. But in recent years, Pielke has begun to focus more of his research on another often-discussed topic: sports and policy. And now he has proposed instituting a new center on campus, the Center for Sports Governance.