Subject: Diet and Nutrition

• Call It Melo-Yellow

  November 29, 2006

• Captain Dan, Energy Man

  October 30, 2006

• Life by Chocolate

  October 5, 2007

• Chipotle Bags Brown Rice

  January 17, 2008

• Last Night...Oblio Duo, Vitamins, The Pseudo Dates @ Larimer Lounge

  May 2, 2008

• Milking It: Chocolate Chex

  May 5, 2008

• Apple Fries?

  July 18, 2008

• The Commerce City Pizza Crop Circle: A Sign That Extraterrestrials Love Pepperoni?

  August 7, 2008

• Papa John's Gets a Pizza the Action

  August 7, 2008

• Make fashion out of food for the Whole Foods Challenge

  September 17, 2008

• Whole Foods "Secret Ingredient" is satisfying food porn

  October 9, 2008

• A Bitter Pill

  Vitamin crusaders burned out of a right-wing radio station find the official version of events tough to swallow.

  January 8, 1998

• A Stirring Experience

  November 5, 1998

• The Whole Truth

  The other stores can eat their hearts out: Whole Foods Market has arrived.

  December 7, 2000

• Pouring on the high-fructose irony

  October 22, 2008

• Milking It: Oat Cluster Cheerios Crunch

  Oat Cluster Cheerios Crunch General Mills Rating: Two-and-a-half spoons out of four. Cereal description: Three variations of the trademark O's -- original recipe, a glazed-looking, slightly yellower version, and their deeper brown siblings -- made from a melange of oat, wheat, rice, corn and barley. Also present are oat clusters spattered with honey, cinammon, molasses and distilled monoglycerides. (Mmmmm. Distilled monoglycerides...) The clusters are proof that this is an adult cereal. After

  November 17, 2008

• Buy at Whole Foods, help SAME Cafe

  On Thursday, November 20, on Whole Foods Giving Day, 5 percent of all purchases made at the Capitol Hill store at 900 East 11th Avenue will benefit SAME Cafe, at 2023 East Colfax Avenue. According to the Whole Foods website, that store "has been an integral part of the Denver community since March 1993" -- even if it hasn't always gone by the name Whole Foods. "We proudly offer our customers fresh food and friendly smiles. Business folk stop in for a hot meal from our full service deli,

  November 19, 2008

• Phil's Fresh wins a fresh loan from Whole Foods

  Boulder-based Phil's Fresh Foods has just won a $96,000 loan from Whole Food's Local Producer Loan Program. Phil's is a wholesale, all-natural burrito manufacturer; its product is stocked by local Whole Foods, Vitamin Cottage and Sunflower stores, as well as some King Soopers. Selling at about $2.50 each, this is "not the typical frozen burrito," says Phil's Heather francis. "We make everything from scratch and we really focus on the ingredients and the best

  December 18, 2008

• Best restaurant when you're in the Zone

  June 29, 2000

• Good news for GoodBelly, if you can stomach it

  GoodBelly is growing like the beneficial bacteria -- or probiotic -- that makes your belly feel good. The pet of NextFoods, a Boulder-based health-food company, GoodBelly was recently included in the Los Angeles Examiner's "Top Ten Best Food Product Introductions for 2008." The product was created by Steve Demos, the founder of WhiteWave's Silk soy milk, and Todd Beckman, who worked with Demos at WhiteWave.Goodbelly is made from fruit and the probiotic Lp299v, which has been proven to assist in

  January 28, 2009

• Best Fish Market

  April 4, 2002

• Bite Me

  February 5, 2004

• Best Low-Carb Menu

  March 25, 2004

• Nique and Vitamin D

  August 5, 2004

• Drunk of the Week

  August 19, 2004

• Happy Trails

  January 8, 2009

• Turkeyball

  November 13, 2008

• Road Food

  July 12, 2007

• Vitamins

  Emerald City

  March 8, 2007

• Pour It On

  Dan Mayer is fueled for the energy boom.

  August 3, 2006

• Vitamins

  Vitamins EP (Self-released)

  May 4, 2006

• Chad VanGaalen

  Friday, September 9, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

  September 8, 2005

• McRibbing

  A man eats fast food for a month. Guess what happens?

  May 13, 2004

• Bite Me

  Kitchen Magician

  October 9, 2003

• Confessions of an Ephedrine Eater

  This non-drowsy formula is an ancient Chinese secret.

  April 24, 2003

• Old Wounds and Family Scars

  An estranged father and son find something in common: their kidneys.

  May 4, 2000

• Chewing the Fat

  How pork rinds became a health-food fad.

  March 16, 2000

• The Big Queasy

  The junk-food guinea pigs of Grand Junction have had some strange gut reactions to olestra.

  May 15, 1997

• TOUGH TO SWALLOW

  CU WAGES A DRUG WAR OVER THE PRENATAL VITAMIN MATERNA.

  March 8, 1995

• THE SECRET FORMULA

  PROWLING THE BLACK MARKET IN SEARCH OF BABY FOOD.

  April 20, 1994

• Is Bazi a miracle drink that can make people both healthy and wealthy -- or is it just the latest scheme from Denver's penny-stock prince?

  May 21, 2009

• Battle of the super drinks! A comparison of miracle juice supplements

  With former Denver Broncos like John Elway and Brian Griese chugging down Bazi like it were the almighty sweat of Zeus, the liquid nutritional supplement by local company XELR8 is building a strong following here in Colorado. But unless you've been personally hit up by one of the company's 6,400-or-so independent distributors, you've likely never heard of Bazi or its supposed health-and-wealth-building powers discussed in this week's Westword cover story. Actually, Bazi is just one of several

  May 20, 2009

• Over the weekend: Here We Go Magic at Larimer Lounge

  Tom MurphyHere We Go Magic, Vitamins and Achille Lauro Sunday, June 28, 2009 Larimer Lounge Better Than: A straightforward interpretation of a band's album. This show opened with Denver's own Vitamins. Since coming to the Mile High City from Greeley two years ago, it seems Vitamins have shed a bit of the sunny and innocent sound that characterized much of its earlier material. Instead of hurting the band, I think the outfit wears the darker, slightly grittier sound well. A decided power and driv

  June 29, 2009

• Milking It: Cinnamon Chex

  ​​​Cinnamon Chex General Mills Rating: Three-and-a-quarter spoons out of four Cereal description: The familiar Chex shape -- puffy, square grids, like graph paper made for chewing -- is present and accounted for, as are the base ingredients of rice and corn flour. Some of the pieces are a light brown color, while the others are darker and bear the mark of delectable cinnamon sprinkles in both the relatively new original recipe and the even-more-recent "gluten-free" rebranding.

  August 10, 2009

• Mysteries of Sheehan's Desk: Day 5

  ​ Because of an office construction project, I had to clear off my desk -- which meant moving seven years of accumulation. Every morning, I'll share another uncovered item with you. Sometimes people ask me, "Sheehan? Why are you keeping all those boxes of carb-free muffin mix at your desk? Or what about the jars of pickling spice and sleeves of golf balls?" Mostly I just tell them to shut up and mind their own business. What a man chooses to hoard is his own business, after all. Bu

  August 18, 2009

• Milking It: Kellogg's Low Fat Granola with Raisins

  ​​Low Fat Granola with Raisins Kellogg's Rating: Two-and-a-half spoons out of four Cereal description: What isn't in this stuff? There's whole oats and whole grain wheat, some of it fused together in random wads, like meteorites collecting fragments during the trip through space, other parts shattered into jagged fragments. Add raisins, almonds and rice and the results resemble an explosion at Whole Foods. Oh, the humanity.

  September 21, 2009

• Sneak a peek at Vitamin D's Hard Times

  ​Longtime Denver dance music stalwart Vitamin D has a new album coming February 24 and, from the sounds of the tracks he has posted on his MySpace, it should be a good one. He announced it back in July and today, he released this image of the album cover. Not sure if this is the final art or not, but as a fan and collector of vintage vinyl, I certainly hope it is. It fits the music within too, which clearly pulls samples and ambiance off an album or two with a cover just like this one. Plu

  October 9, 2009

• Today: Michelle May at the Food & Nutrition Conference

  ​The American Dietetic Association's Food & Nutrition Conference, which kicked off Saturday, runs through October 20 at the Colorado Convention Center. One of the highlights comes at 3 p.m. today, when Michelle May, the author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How to Break the Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle offers a talk on "Improving Self-Management with Mindful Eating."She'll discuss how mindful eating allows practitioners to become more attuned to their bodies and their health -- in

  October 19, 2009

• Visiting dietitians keep special requests to a minimum while in Denver

  Hungry, thirsty dietitians before hitting Denver restaurants​ The annual American Dietetic Association Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo is drawing to a close in Denver. One of the world's largest organizations of food and nutrition professionals, the ADA focuses on the latest food-service trends and nutrition science information. Naturally, I was curious to find out if convention attendees practiced what they preached. So I called Fruition and Bistro Vendome, two restaurants listed in

  October 20, 2009

• Colorado Egg Producers make an egg-celent gesture

  Shauna Ahern​One in eight Coloradoans will struggle to put food on the table this holiday season, and 99 percent of food banks in the state have reported an enormous surge in the need for emergency assistance. Kudos, then, to the Colorado Egg Producers, whose Good Egg Project is lending a helping hand to Food Bank of the Rockies and the Weld Food Bank. This Saturday, November 21, the CEP will donate over 100,000 eggs to people scheduled to receive USDA food boxes at both food banks. Howar

  November 19, 2009