Health & Fitness

In Berkeley, Calif., a clinic offers free HIV tests on the sidewalk. The desperate need for these and other AIDS/HIV-related services in the South is the subject of the new documentary film, deepsouth, to be shown in Birmingham in August. Photo by Derrick Coetzee

July 24, 2012

Documentary sheds light on HIV and AIDS in the South

Birmingham AIDS activist Kathie Hiers appears in the new documentary film, deepsouth, to be shown in August at Sidewalk.

Fast food may taste good, but overweight teens and adults in Alabama must learn to make better dietary choices. Photo by The Dapper Dan.

June 19, 2012

Weighty matter: film screening to raise awareness about obesity

Alabama has a serious weight problem, so the Health Action Partnership is screening the HBO documentary "Challenges."

The Songo mine hoist house at Red Mountain Park. Photo taken 2009.

April 24, 2012

Revisiting Red Mountain Park: A huge park opens, but there’s more in store

Thanks to work by Red Mountain Park staff and loads of volunteer work by Friends of Red Mountain Park and others, one slice of Red…

UAB medicine professor Dr. Mona N. Fouad (left) and American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation President Mary Jo Welker (right) hope the Cities for Life program will help diabetes patients manage their care.

April 24, 2012

Birmingham lands sweet diabetes management program

The City of Birmingham has been chosen to host a new diabetes management pilot program called Cities for Life. The program hopes to connect patients…

Women reach up at fitness boot-camps – like this one at Every Girl Fitness – getting in better shape and discovering a new, supportive community.

April 18, 2012

Women work out, find community, at fitness camps

12 women gather for a boot-camp, and not just to get in shape, but to find community.

Retailers stocking more gluten-free products are Walmart, Whole Foods, Publix and Big Lots. Photo by Helena Corzan.

April 4, 2012

Living wheat (and gluten) free in Birmingham

The challenges faced by three million Americas who suffer from allergies to gluten – a protein found in foods made from wheat,

“Eating Alabama” documentary to premiere at South by Southwest →

A Tuscaloosa couple spent a year trying to eat only food grown in our fair state of Alabama, and their experience — according to Thomas Spencer — has been chronicled in a new documentary film that will premiere in Austin, Tex. next month at the South by Southwest festival. Learn more about the film at www.eatingalabama.com.