Tosca Reno (born May 22, 1959) is a New York Times best selling author who has written Your Best Body Now and the Eat-Clean Diet series. She is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner.[1]
Reno is a health and wellness writer and advocate whose Eat-Clean Diet series has sold over 3 million copies. In her 11-book series, she promotes healthy eating through practical and adaptable lifestyle guidance. Reno's works have influenced many North American men and women to live the best life they can lead.
Personal life
Reno is the widow of Robert Kennedy who founded Robert Kennedy Publishing in 1974 with the launch of MuscleMag International and was also an accomplished artist and art teacher. Reno and Kennedy met on a school playground where Reno taught Kennedy's daughter. Reno, a mother of three, was getting divorced; and the two started a relationship.[2] Kennedy died of lung cancer on April 12, 2012.[3]
Following Kennedy's death Reno assumed the position of publisher and chief executive officer at Robert Kennedy Publishing.[4]
Publishing
Reno first began writing a monthly column for Oxygen and has since published 11 books with Robert Kennedy Publishing's book division, including the popular Eat-Clean Diet Series. In 2010 she became a New York Times bestselling author with her book Your Best Body Now: Look and Feel Fabulous at Any Age the Eat-Clean Way.
Television
Tosca was featured in a mini-reality series called Tosca: Flexing at 49[5] in 2009. The eight-part series focused on her preparations for the final bodybuilding competition of her career and won her a Gemini Award. The series aired on the Viva Network in Canada in June 2009.
Published works
"The Pan-G Non-Surgical Face Lift" (2006)
- The Butt Book (2007)
- The Eat-Clean Diet Book (2007)
- The Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook (2007)
- The Eat-Clean Diet Workout (2008)
- The Eat-Clean Diet Workout Journal (2008)
- The Eat-Clean Diet for Family and Kids (2008)
- The Eat-Clean Diet for Men (2009)
- The Eat-Clean Diet Companion (2009)
- Tosca Reno's Eat Clean Cookbook (2009)
- The Eat-Clean Diet Recharged (2009)
- Your Best Body Now (2009)
- The Eat-Clean Diet Stripped (2011)
- The Eat-Clean Diet Vegetarian Cookbook (2012)
- "Just the Rules" (2012)
- "The Start Here Diet" (2013)
See also
References
- ↑"Meet Tosca Reno". toscareno.com. June 13, 2013. Archived from the original on June 18, 2013. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
- ↑Teotonio, Isabel (April 24, 2012). "Robert Kennedy was a trailblazer in the fitness industry". Toronto Star. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
- ↑"Robert Kennedy Publishing - Health, Fitness, Nutrition and Lifestyle Books and Magazines". Rkpubs.com. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
- ↑"Robert Kennedy's publishing legacy handed to wife Tosca Reno". Masthead Online. 2012-04-16. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
- ↑"ProgramDetails: Viva – Tosca: Flexing at 49". Corus Entertainment. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
External links
- Tosca Reno's official website
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Canadian health and wellness writers
- Clean eating advocates
- People from Lachine, Quebec
- Writers from Montreal
- Queen's University at Kingston alumni
- York University alumni
- Canadian nutritionists
- Canadian vegetarian cookbook writers
- Women nutritionists