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The day begins as calmly as any other this summer. Graced with blue skies outside and a break from deadlines at my desk, I decide to take my 20-month-old to Shelburne Farms for a little meeting with the moo-cows and lunch. We meet up with friends in the parking lot, and I don’t think twice when one of them, a fellow mom of a toddler, offers my daughter a cashew. “Yummy, a cashew!” I say, handing her the nut. In my mind, the only thing wrong with the scenario is that I’m not offered cashews to snack on, too.... Read more

When it comes to summer pests, ticks and mosquitoes beat just about everything (even overstaying house guests). The blood-sucking critters can carry the life-altering Lyme disease and the potentially fatal West Nile virus — and now they’re plaguing the Green Mountain State in historic proportions. With such worries getting under our skin, Seven Days bugged State Entomologist Jon Turmel with some questions.

Seven Days: So, are the ticks worse than ever this year? That’s what I heard.... Read more

As glowing reviews and booming box office returns greet the movie WALL-E, Pixar’s summer release has also inspired an unusual outpouring of debate over the animated feature’s message. Much of the story — warning: spoilers ahead — unfolds wordlessly, which perhaps abets multiple interpretations. A cautionary tale about the dangers of overconsumption, or a fable about the human need to connect?... Read more

Never let it be said that the Church Street Marketplace doesn’t have it all: food, fashion, books, housewares, live music and, now, on-demand drug testing.... Read more

As a homebirth midwife, Katherine Bramhall has brought many babies into the world. But for her next delivery, she is asking for help.

In mid-May, Bramhall launched “A Million Mothers,” a $1 million campaign to fund construction of a new health clinic on the island of Bali. Bramhall’s goal is to collect one dollar from each of one million mothers before September, when she will return to Bali to buy land for an earthquake-proof building, a youth center, a community garden and housing for clinic staff.... Read more

When the thickets burst with summer fruit, we fill our fridges with raspberries and blackberries, but fresh elderberries are hard to find in markets. Maybe it’s because it takes a basketful of the small, inky things to yield, say, a respectable batch of elderberry pancakes. Or maybe it’s because some varieties of the fruit are toxic before they ripen.... Read more

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Shop till you drop, recycle used clothing, socialize over cocktails AND raise money for a women's charity?

Sounds too good to be true, right? Actually, it's the 7th Annual Clothes Exchange.... Read more

Wendy Vranjes didn’t want to know her weight. She stepped on the scale and asked that the number not be revealed to her. Vranjes doesn’t even own a scale. “I just have to get healthy again,” she said. To do that, she’ll have to become a loser. A big loser. Vranjes is among the 76 people who recently registered for a 12-week weight-loss challenge in Franklin County that borrows its name from NBC’s popular reality show, “The Biggest Loser.”... Read more

Sometimes, a little tough love is the best thing for a person’s heart. When cardiologist Dr. Phil Ades, a medical consultant for EatingWell, is counseling a patient at risk for heart disease, he might say something like this: “There’s a ton of stuff people can do to prevent heart disease. Do you want to do this now, before your heart attack, or do you wanna do it after?”... Read more

Thirty years ago, Bernie Siegel, a physician and assistant professor of surgery at Yale, began to explore the “care” in health care. His investigations led him to found Exceptional Cancer Patients, a form of individual and group therapy designed to help people heal themselves through behavioral changes. As a leader in the mind-body-medicine field, this Brooklyn-born Bernie also sought to redefine what it meant to be a doctor.... Read more