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Energy Management: Part 3: Fuel YOUR Body Peak performance and energy management are all about YOU. What are your performance and energy needs? Based on your lifestyle and body, your needs are unique from every other person's. Stellar, energy giving foods are available near you. Some of the most powerful include: chia seeds (energy seeds), maca (hormone booster and balancer), coconut water (natural Gatorade), gogi berries (complete amino acid provider), and organic fruits

Why I love ObamaCare Surprisingly, my love of ObamaCare has nothing to do with any of the reasons it was passed in the first place. From my perspective, ObamaCare has no relationship with health care and everything to do with medical care, but for that matter your previous “Health Insurance Coverage” was no different. So why do I love ObamaCare? The ObamaCare high deductibles will finally force the American public to take responsibility for their own health. ObamaCare Sil

Birth Control Pills – Not so Free Birth control pills may be free however, they are not free of problems and serious side effects. In the past six months I have worked with four young ladies, all complaining of severe digestive disorders from stomach pain to gas. In many cases, they have visited multiple professionals from general practitioners to gastroenterologists and submitted themselves to various expensive tests. In the end, they received a potpourri of medications an

Energy Management Part 2: Don't Drain! Want to energize your workout? your day? As we mentioned in Part One, whole foods GIVE energy. On the flip side of this coin, processed foods DRAIN energy. To illustrate, margarine is one example of a highly processed food. It is manufactured at such high temperatures (not to mention bleached and steam cleaned) that our bodies physically cannot break it down. Eating margarine is like shoving tin foil through your system. This D

Energy Management Part 1: Eat to GAIN energy When you finish a meal, you should feel energized. To think that we are "supposed" to feel lethargic after lunch is a bit backwards. Conventional, yes... yet backwards. We should be eating foods which GIVE us energy. We should be eating whole foods. Whole foods are those which look, feel, taste exactly as they did when they came from the ground, or off an animal. Any processing, cooking, spicing should be done by you.

Have you made a resolution to better your health this year? In the past week, radio & podcasts have been abuzz with the following: The most common New Years resolutions are all health related: lose weight, exercise more/better, etc. If you fall into this category, take a second to think about what you could do for your health and the health of those around you. Have you thought about taking time to set your fitness and nutrition goals? How about finding a health coac

Total Force Fitness Fitness is the cornerstone of a successful military career and the foundation of a healthy lifestyle. A soldier must be ever-ready to deploy, fit to fight for our national defense. As stated by Admiral Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Total Fitness is holistic, it is far more than just physical. Total Fitness is a 'state of being' which ensures soldiers are ready to deploy and to handle the challenges associated with deployment. Ho

This blog is for you. In the sea of conflicting science, magazine headlines, advertisements, new diets, financially motivated experiments... you get the point... it is hard to know what health and nutrition information is trustworthy. It's even harder to find the right solution for your body. One of the biggest blessings of my education and training was having a steady stream of high quality resources. These resources provided a wealth of nutrition information whic