FitnessMantra Reviews

Garden Your Way To Health And Fitness: A Fitness Mantra Book Review

The garden is one of the few places that many people would confess feeling truly ambivalent about. While it’s true that a beautifully maintained garden not only adds beauty and value to the home or community it graces, but also provides a sanctuary for nature lovers or serenity-seekers, what’s also true is that the very [...]


FitBALL Seating Disc: FitnessMantra Product Review

Just got back from a relaxing vacation and after a brief hiatus, it’s time to get back to business! As a person whose primary day-job involves sitting for long hours in front of a computer, I am always looking for ways to enforce proper posture while I sit. A good chair with adjustable lumbar (lower [...]


P.F. Chang’s Great Wall Of Chocolate: Portion Out-Of-Control

Well it’s time for another edition of Food Horror and it’s unfortunate that one of my favorite restaurants has to be featured on this page. As vegetarians, we find few restaurants can offer us tasty and healthful options, but P.F. Chang’s was always a favorite except they didn’t have a branch in Connecticut when we [...]


The Hacker’s Diet: FitnessMantra Book Review

The Hacker’s Diet is not your everyday diet book and neither is its author, John Walker, your everyday diet-book author. As the founder of AutoDesk (a company known primarily for its AutoCAD engineering design software package), Walker is neither a doctor nor a nutritionist (there’s your disclaimer right there). Another fairly unique feature about this [...]


Kellogg’s SmartStart: The Dumbest Start You Could Make Each Day?

The TV ads look simply amazing: a woman sitting on the floor and eating her cereal and explaining how easy it is for her to stay healthy. The secret, you ask? Why, she simply stuffs herself with Kellogg’s so-called “SmartStart” cereal every morning and she is sure to stop heart-disease right on its tracks.

Well, not [...]