HIIT It

One of the top excuses that people use to justify not exercising is, “I just don’t have the time.”  There is always time, but it can seem like sometimes there are not enough hours in the day.  Luckily fitness experts and scientists have been studying different ways to get in exercise in a few minutes each day.  There was even a recent study that found people will benefit from just four minutes of each day.  That’s only twenty-eight minutes a week!  If you don’t have twenty-eight minutes a week to exercise then you might want to reevaluate some things in your life.

There is a catch though.  The study that was done determined that those four minutes had to be intense exercise.  So how do you get in that intense activities to reap the benefits?  Something called HIIT will be your best bet.  HIIT is the acronym for high intensity interval training.  You train in intervals so that you can really get the high impact without overdoing it.

The Joy of Soup

Soup can be one of the healthiest and most satisfying meals you’ll ever enjoy, but not all soups are created equal.  Soup that is cream based and heavy on fat and calories is nowhere near as good for you as that made of delicious, fresh, unprocessed ingredients and served in a base of naturally low sodium beef, chicken, or vegetable stock.  I’m not talking about a “cabbage soup diet” here, either.  Soup can be one of the most versatile dishes, but you have to get creative and use all the colors in the vegetable rainbow to get the most health benefit from your soup.

What Are You Eating?

Surely you have heard that old saying “you are what you eat.”  I am going to be honest with you here and tell you I have also been a little weirded out by that saying.  Growing up I pretty much ate whatever I wanted.  So I was a big bowl of sugar, some horrible fat, and big piles of grease on the side.  Oh, I forgot that I always ate dessert too, so more sugar.