Great Taste, No Guilt

How many chefs can make this claim? "I don’t have a fryer."

Paolo Neville can.

The executive chef for the new Bistro Elaia in the just-opened Anschutz Health and Wellness Center uses a lot more than butter or fat to make your mouth water—farro tabouli, oven-dried tomatoes and Southwestern black beans, to name a few.

"First, we want it to be fantastic food," Neville said. "Then, we want to surprise you by telling you how healthy it is."

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Finding Help and Hope

For much of Gretchen Cheverton's life, she has been at the mercy of her moods, which range from mania to severe depression. When she was 24, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

"People would say to me, ‘You need help,’ and I would think, there is no help for me. This is what my life is," said Cheverton.

But at the University of Colorado Depression Center, Gretchen Cheverton finally found treatment that would change her life.

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Much More than a Gym

If you would like to qualify for the Boston Marathon within months after giving birth to your first child, then you might want to call Inigo San Millan, PhD, director of the Human Performance Laboratory at the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center.

And if you have been losing the same 20 pounds for 10 years, you may want to check in with Holly Wyatt, MD, associate director of the Center. She is the biggest loser’s best friend.

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Pioneer in Health

Nobody has ever done what we are doing at the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center. And I have to say, I think that’s sad.

I don’t know if it was delusion or stubbornness that kept me going for the 12 years it took to create this Center.

I do know, with certainty, that preventing disease rather than just treating it is absolutely the right thing to do. And it’s going to take a place like this to change things in America.

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