Create Your Own Healthy Beverages

In our modern world we are surrounded with an amazing array of beverage choices. From soft drinks, sports drinks and the ever ubiquitous Starbucks latte, we have a huge menu to choose from. The problem is, if you look at the content labels you’ll find a lot of stuff you really don’t want in a [...]

Tuning Your Caffeine Intake: Part Two

Caffeine can perk you up, help you be more creative, and perk up your attitude. But if you get too much you can lose focus, become jittery and inattentive. Here are some strategies for dealing with this very popular substance. (Part one of this article can be found here) Strategy One: Eliminate caffeine completely. Caffeine [...]

Tuning Your Caffeine Intake: Part One

I love coffee. The wonderful aroma of a delicious Columbian brew first thing in the morning is like magic. I take a few sips of this wonderful concoction and I’m starting to wake up. Soon the day doesn’t seem so dreary and those negative thoughts seem to drift away. Within a cup or two the [...]

Tune Your Diet With Volumetrics

Think about meals that you really enjoy. They have some common characteristics. A meal that satisfies will have wonderful aromas, colorful ingredients, and taste really good. A full meal will include a variety of tastes and have enough volume to satisfy and make you pleasantly full. The problem we have in our modern society is [...]

Nutritional Tuning

I’m a big fan of diet and exercise programs such as 5 Factor Fitness and Body for Life. With summer upon us I have set myself a goal to lose 10 pounds over the next three months. With my current job, I sit behind a desk a lot more than I used to and I [...]

Tuning Your Life

The Mercedes spit and sputtered as I pulled it into the stall. I lifted the hood and put it on the scope. The engine was misfiring and a large spike showed on the oscilloscope screen. I shut it down and started the tune up. I removed and replaced the spark plugs, changed the air and [...]