Bob Condor

Get him going on the local organic food movement, and John Peterson will talk about two things. One is vegetables, the other is highways. There is a connection. "I was...

A weekly box of organic produce can change the way you eat and cook. Trust me, it has happened in our home during the last several months. Here's a partial...

Whenever he conducts focus groups about teens and alcohol, researcher Richard Yoast sees a distinct pattern emerge. "The kids say the parents greatly underestimate the amount of drinking going on,...

The teacher doesn't remember it. My guess is the student doesn't either. But a late spring day years ago sticks in my mind as an example of what physical education...

Here's what Jerry Cleaver remembers about his first big-name writing professor at the University of Illinois some 30 years ago: "I had lots of questions. "Unfortunately, the noted author/professor had...

"Work-life balance" is a popular term in the business world. But Gregory Florez has been redefining the concept in recent months. "It's really more about work-life integration," said Florez, whose...

There are many ways to communicate a public health message. We've all endured dreadful lectures (if not since school days) and heard the bromides from government officials. Some public-awareness campaigns...

The conversation followed mass a few years ago on the steps of Old St. Patrick's Church in the West Loop. My wife, Mary, and I were telling Rev. John Cusick...

He grew up in a Philadelphia neighborhood "running after, kicking, catching, passing and bouncing a ball." The ball was Kevin Carroll's coping mechanism for parents who abandoned him as a...

Exactly when "fat free" became part of our vocabulary is not the point. It's more that fat-free muffins and cookies are still upending our taste buds like a linebacker tackling...