Amy Hendel is the founder and CEO of HealthGal.com, a health and lifestyle information Website. An established medical correspondent and journalist, Hendel began her career as a hospital-based physician assistant in internal and dependency medicine. After extensive post-graduate education in exercise physiology and nutrition, she began a private practice in 1996 as a family lifestyle therapist, where she focuses on weight issues associated with medical conditions.

In 1999, Hendel began her media career at KCBS, a Los Angeles-based AM talk show, as a weekly on-air health expert. She has been a medical host on Lifetime's Stories on the Beach and Pfizer's On the Road to Pain Relief.

Hendel is a frequent health and lifestyle contributor to local and national news networks and talk shows including Fox Cable News, The Big Idea, Starting Over , Extra! , Discovery Health, TLC, Lifetime, SoapTalk, HGTV, KFIS FM Portland, PBS.

She is the new correspondent and health editor of NBC's HouseSmarts and also hosts and produces the medical talk show HealthZone.

Her national "HealthGal Corner" column is featured in Best Body magazine and she is a frequently quoted nutrition expert in numerous publications including InStyle magazine, Fit Pregnancy, Family Circle, the Los Angeles Times, and the Los Angeles Daily News.

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