by Pamela Hernandez | Feb 17, 2011 | Motivation, Reviews
Why does a chocolate chip cookie hold one person completely captive while another person doesn’t even notice it’s there? Why does someone continually choose to eat a food that consciously they know is going to make them feel awful tomorrow? How can we eat, eat, eat...
by Pamela Hernandez | Jan 31, 2011 | Nutrition, Reviews
I love a good cookbook. Especially one with beautiful pictures, clean ingredients and calorie counts already included. That’s why right now I am loving Tosca Reno’s Eat Clean Cookbook. For those of you not initiated in the clean eating philosophy let me sum it...
by Pamela Hernandez | Jan 24, 2011 | Fitness, Reviews
Anyone remember the uproar last October after a piece appeared in the LA Times calling out Jillian Michaels? It called her credentials as a trainer into question (later her certifications were verified and validated by the certifying organizations) and her, should I...
by Pamela Hernandez | Jan 13, 2011 | Reviews
Being overweight for many starts when they are very young. I was myself a chubby baby, a round toddler and shopped in the husky section when I was in grade school (see my post Fighting Childhood Obesity Starts at Home). So did Frank Bruni, the author of Born Round: A...
by Pamela Hernandez | Dec 23, 2010 | Fitness, Reviews
I tell people all the time that exercise doesn’t have to mean spending hours in a gym or running miles each week. Exercise, like anything else we do, can be managed in small chunks. That’s why I decided to give 10 Minute Solution – Kickbox Bootcamp a try. The...
by Pamela Hernandez | Dec 2, 2010 | Reviews
image by Steve Jurvetson Perhaps you might have noticed an omission from last week’s post, my Top 10 Health and Fitness Gifts for 2011. I purposely left off books. I decided that books deserved their own list. If not, books would have easily been three quarters...
