Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza and Grill – Studio City

Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza opened its doors in Studio City today and allow me to share our menu tasting experience that the kids and I had at their pre-opening party. We were in for a treat.  Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza & Grill originally opened in 1989 in La Jolla (San Diego area) and is a family run [...]

Book Review: Overweight Kids in a Toothpick World

Over the last few weeks I have read the “Overweight Kids in a Toothpick World” book by Brenda Wollenberg and I have walked away with lots of new information on raising healthy kids. Brenda is a Registered Nutritionist. To me, that’s a huge plus because she knows what she is talking about. When Brenda reached [...]

Michael Pollan handbook to help you eat well

The world sure has some strange moments. Doctors are so desperate to get us to eat better, that one surgeon even tries to teach his patients how to get three healthy meals out of a roasted chicken. This is from Michael Pollan’s handbook “Food Rules”: Another doctor, a transplant cardiologist, wrote to say “you can’t [...]

Expert Interview on getting kids to eat breakfast, snack right and stop eating junk food

Check out these fantastic videos interviews with Dr. David Ludwig, author of  Ending the Food Fight: Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/ Fake Food World. In these quick 1-2 minute interviews he discusses: How do you get a breakfast hater to eat breakfast What sort of snack rules to establish [...]

What makes children overeat?

David Kessler, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, addresses America’s ever-increasing waistlines in his new book, “The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite.” When asked about obesity and children in his Wall Street Journal interview promoting the book, he said the following: ” They [children] are getting huge portions [...]