by Brett Blumenthal
I travel a lot for business, and, as a result, I have gone to a lot of gyms in a lot of hotels. A lot of these gyms have scales and being human, every once in awhile I give into the temptation to ‘test’ out one of them. The last time I ‘tested’ [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
As an architect, I was trained to think that design was approached with either Form following Function or Function following Form.  Depending on your schooling, your personal beliefs and your client, you may practice both approaches during your career.  This morning, in the gym, I had a true flashback watching several other gym goers.
You’ve seen [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
Over the last month or so, I’ve received questions submitted by readers and friends asking how I personally manage to find balance in my hectic schedule.  The short answer: I’m not sure I ever have.  In all honesty, I feel like true balance is much like true perfection: Never quite attainable…but definitely something [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
If you watch TV at all, you’ve probably seen the commercials for Kellogg’s special attempt at a special diet with their famed Special K products.  Basically, they claim if you eat two 1 cup bowls of their cereal a day, you will lose six pounds in two weeks.*  In short, the program instructs you [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
I’m not sure what it is, but I know that everyone, at least once in their life goes through some ambivalence about a birthday, if not several.  Often it is a milestone, but sometimes it is just a random, weird, off year.   I know for my mom, it was 60 (even though she didn’t look [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
I don’t have children.  I’m not sure when I will have children, but I do know that when I do, health, both mental and physical, will be an important part of my raising them and teaching them about life. 
This morning, I had an interesting dialogue with my family about legal action and laws [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
I’ve been a true loyalist to Origins, Aveda and The Body Shop for the better part of ten to fifteen years.  I admit, I walk into a store and I fall hook, line and sinker for the scents they pump through their stores.  The Body Shop was one of the first companies that [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
Most of us have experienced peer pressure at one time or another, most likely when we were adolescents.  At that time, it was pretty blatant: ’Buy these jeans, everyone else has them’…‘You need to make the basketball team, otherwise you’ll be a loser’…‘Try a sip of this punch or a smoke, it makes [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
This past week I learned of three healthy and fit women, all under 50, who are either undergoing breast cancer treatment or have become breast cancer survivors.  Each woman who is diagnosed with breast cancer has their own story of how they found a lump, what stage it was in and a unique process of how [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
Yesterday, as I waited to get a facial, I picked up a copy of a magazine in my Spa’s waiting lounge.  The magazine is geared towards informing consumers on cosmetic surgery, plastic surgery and other invasive procedures to stay ‘young and beautiful.’  Against invasive and aggressive beauty procedures myself, I’m always interested in [...]

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