To Your Health

Is grass-fed beef healthier or better than grain-fed?

"...found when animal products are used in feed. Also, hormones to promote growth are generally not used by ranchers..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Shout!

Annie Weisman's satiric drama Be Aggressive, receiving its area premiere from the State Theater Company, gives a shout out to cheerleading as an outlet for teenagers to make themselves heard.

"...trials of social pressures, academics, body changes, and surging hormones, Laura's mom has just been killed in a hit-and-run..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

To Your Health

Why can't nutritionists make up their minds about whether fat is good for you or not?

"...provide the starting material for an important family of hormones called "prostaglandins." Both omega-6 and omega-3 fats contribute to..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Love Is a Battlefield

In 'The Holy Land,' indie auteur Eitan Gorlin Feels at home as an interloper in a world of religion, romance, and war.

"...a prostitute to help get his mind off his hormones and back onto the Talmud. Don't laugh -- Nathan..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

Human Growth Hormone comes outta where? Brenda Vaccaro did what? This week's AAF takes you where you never wanted to go…

"...hardly go anywhere without reading about HGH (Human Growth Hormones). The vendors of HGH tout it for everything from..."

July 25, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

To Your Health

Why is aspirin good for so many different things? Is there anything like aspirin among the nutrients?

"...especially those in fish oil, are made into anti-inflammatory hormones. Natural products such as chondroitin and glucosamine, found in..."

June 20, 2003 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Record Reviews

"..."Sex Rap" find Anthony Kiedis at last channeling his hormones into a cohesive flow, and slow-cooker "Yertle the Turtle"..."

June 13, 2003 Music Review by Christopher Gray

To Your Health

How do we know if we're getting the right amount of copper?

"...• synthesize certain hormones (norepinephrine is probably the most important),..."

May 16, 2003 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

To Your Health

My mother has been taking 400 IU of vitamin D for several years. She has severe osteoporosis that was still getting worse until she increased her vitamin D supplement to 800 IU per day. What is the safe limit for a vitamin D supplement?

"...D" actually refers to several substances related to steroid hormones. The vitamin D we make in our skin on..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

About AIDS

"...that a woman's mood can be boosted by mood-altering hormones in semen that are absorbed through the vagina. These..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Sandy Bartlett

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...cut out soft drinks or meat loaded with growth hormones? Shouldn't they have more choices than the momentary thrill..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Column

To Your Health

I keep hearing about omega-3 fatty acids. What are they, where do they come from, and what good are they?

"...are the starting material for an important group of hormones known as "prostaglandins." Prostaglandins had been discovered in 1935,..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Not Your Daddy's Facial Hair

Kate Messer brings us up to date on the drag king scene in Austin.

"...back when they themselves were dealing with new-found raging hormones."..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

The Hightower Report

Organics: good enough for the pilgrims, good enough for us; and, trailer trash go upscale.

"...require any chemical additives, genetic engineering, pesticides, antibiotics, growth hormones, or other weaponry of today's high-tech agribusiness industry. Those..."

Nov. 8, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

To Your Health

Why can't I just completely eliminate fat from my diet?

"...of living cells from the outside, but also powerful hormones are formed from certain essential fats. In many ways..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

To Your Health

What are the safest non-prescription pain remedies and how do they work compared to the regular pain relievers?

"...to block the body's production of prostaglandins. Prostaglandins are hormones made from the essential fatty acids. Prostaglandins come in..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Letters at 3am

Learning about "manhood" from the movies.

"...15 years old in 1960, our dreams and our hormones in a constant state of ricochet, were looking (unconsciously)..."

May 31, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Eric Schlosser at BookPeople

"...the feed, he said, and hasn't been given growth hormones or antibiotics. Then someone asked him if he's a..."

March 15, 2002 Food Review by Clay Smith

You Made Me Love You

What is this thing called crush? Specifically, what makes us swoon over people we've never met? The creative minds at the Blue Theater have gathered over two dozen actors, musicians, artists, writers, and puppeteers to create art, wall-writing, and short performance pieces to address that very question in Celebrity Crush.

"...I'd see, practically," a state she describes succinctly as "hormones in overdrive."..."

March 1, 2002 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

To Your Health

I know acne is not life-threatening, but it makes my life miserable. I am considering AccutaneTM treatment but I'm open to other suggestions.

"...difficult to unravel. There is a complex interaction of hormones, good and bad skin bacteria, and even a weak..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Dancing About Architecture

More club shakeups, this time Ruta Maya and possibly Stubb's

"...Plyler) played bass in Sons of Hercules and the Hormones. However, did you know that while living in L.A.,..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

To Your Health

I consider myself a very healthy woman, since I have been athletic all my life and even considered training for the Olympics, but my physician is worried that I have the beginnings of osteoporosis at age 32. Could this be true?

"...keeps calcium soluble inside your body so that the hormones controlling its placement operate better. Boron is one of..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Prime Considerations

Chronicle Food writer Rebecca Chastenet de Géry on why 1,000 head of Japenese Wagyu cattle are thriving in Central Texas.

"...leads to the use of anabolic steroids and growth hormones, and many cattle are treated with antibiotics and fed..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

About AIDS

Maintaining body-cell mass

"...BCM through diet, exercise and the use of anabolic hormones. (Mary is the consulting dietician for AIDS Services of..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column by Sandy Bartlett

Music in the 1990s

"...couches and plotted the rise of my band the Hormones, I thought there might be food money in writing..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Contributors

Descriptions of the contributors to The Austin Chronicle 20th anniversary issue

"...lipstick called Napalm Stars that's the revenge of the Hormones" (www.napalmstars.com)...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Spit Out the Seeds

Lucinda Williams bares all

"...those of us well past the first rush of hormones and humping, it's a gratifying portrayal...."

Aug. 10, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The American People

"...bassist Hunter Darby (Dung Beatles), and drummer Susie Martinez (Hormones) step it up for rockers like the Icicle Works..."

June 29, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Dancing About Architecture

Another Sixth Street club discontinues live original music, as Davíd Garza struggles to get his heard.

"...week that, "At age 13, the mysterious Bat Boy's hormones are apparently kicking in," and that UT campus police..."

June 15, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

To Your Health

Are soy foods really good for us or not?

"...with breast cancer. Since menopause she had been taking hormones but has now stopped, and is suffering greatly with..."

March 9, 2001 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

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