Healthy Utah
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Salt Lake City’s Billion-Dollar Dreams While Seniors Struggle to Eat
Salt Lake City is dreaming big: new arenas, convention space and a billion-dollar downtown transformation. A few miles away, seniors are saving leftovers for tomorrow’s dinner and wondering how much…
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Future Craft Farm Launches First CSA Season in Salt Lake City
Hall and Scheig found their land last June and broke ground just two months later, transforming what was essentially a blank canvas into a diversified market garden. This year marks…
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KUER Goes After The Other Side Academy
A recent KUER article critically examines The Other Side Academy (TOSA), focusing primarily on former participants who describe the program negatively and questioning the philosophy behind therapeutic communities. Every institution…
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Can Utah Farms Survive the Corporate Food System?
Local farms and restaurants battle similar economic pressures as they struggle to survive in a tight economy where slim profit margins and increased labor costs and conditions are often beyond…
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Priced Out of Summer Fun? These Activities Cost Almost Nothing
As summer approaches, many of us start looking for new ways to be active. Whether you’re emerging from a cozy winter of hibernation, or searching for a replacement for skiing…
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Echocardiogram for Active People: What You Should Know About Your Heart Health
Most active people track performance, pace, and recovery—but rarely look at the one organ driving it all. Understanding how your heart is actually functioning can reveal early warning signs long…
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A Stand-Up Wheelchair Gives Paralysis Patients Greater Independence
After a cycling accident left him paralyzed, Bill Winchester had to relearn how to navigate daily life from a wheelchair. A stand-up wheelchair later gave him the ability to rise,…
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US Magnesium Bankruptcy and the Environmental Cost to the Great Salt Lake
Now, with US Magnesium declaring bankruptcy, questions long deferred are rising to the surface. What happens to decades of toxic waste sitting just miles from a shrinking lake? Who is…
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How I Lost 120 Pounds and Changed My Relationship With Food
Throughout most of my life, I used food to cope with chaos, depression, and pain I did not yet understand. By my early twenties, I weighed over 320 pounds and…
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A Salt Lake City Gym Uses Fitness and Community to Support Addiction Recovery
“What I think is really special about that place is that doing hard things is a way that we can become proud of ourselves,” said nursing student Vince Minutello, who…
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Why We’re Less Healthy Than Our Parents and What Happened
Something has gone wrong with our health. Each generation appears sicker than the one before, despite spending more on medicine than any society in history. At the same time, trust…
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Chronic Disease in America: Treating Too Late, Prescribing Too Much
Every January, Americans reflect on the year behind them and draft a familiar list of resolutions. Eat better. Lose weight. Exercise more. Reduce stress. These intentions recur not because people…
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Utah Farm Animal Rescue: Sixteen Years of Saving Abused Animals
For sixteen years, a small ranch in West Jordan has given abused farm animals a place to recover and start over. Horses, alpacas, goats, and countless others arrive in rough…
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Off the Grid: Four Days in Cataract Canyon
Far from screens and city noise, a four-day river expedition through Cataract Canyon becomes a journey into silence, deep time, and shared consciousness. Among ancient rock layers and star-filled skies,…
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Fresh Local Food in Ogden: Urban Prairie Agriculture Fights Food Deserts
In a downtown Ogden neighborhood long defined as a food desert, entrepreneur Anne Dunaway has opened Urban Prairie Agriculture, a hydroponic indoor farm and small grocery store offering fresh, nutritious…
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DrumBus Helps Kids With Disabilities Heal Through Rhythm
In schools across Utah, a converted bus is changing how children with disabilities face daily challenges, opening unexpected doors to confidence and connection.