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By Amy Schlinger for Life by DailyBurn HIIT is all the hype lately. According to a survey conducted by the American College of Sports Medicine, it’s one of the two top fitness trends for 2014 (the other being bodyweight training). So what’s this type of training all about? What is it with HIIT? HIIT, or high-intensity interval training, is a training technique in which you give all-out, one hundred percent effort through quick, intense bursts of exercise, followed by short, sometimes active, recovery periods. This type of training gets and keeps your heart rate up and burns more fat in
Since early last week, music industry power couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z have gone vegan, as part of a 22-day diet plan. According to Jay-Z’s website announcing their endeavor, they decided on 22 days because someone once said it takes 21 days to break a habit, and on the 22nd day, you’re golden.
Since current flu vaccines do not completely protect against influenza infection, researchers have been looking for alternative measures. Now, a new mouse study has shown that older mice are given extra protection from the flu with a diet that incorporates goji berries.
It’s not unusual for people to say they feel much better after dropping gluten from their diet, even though they don’t have celiac disease, digestive experts report.
Anyone who’s ever belonged to a weight loss program knows the value of keeping a food diary — a written record of every morsel or sip that enters the mouth.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s planned phase-out over the next three years of some antibiotics used in animal production could have a minimal immediate impact on cattle, pork and chicken production, said economists and traders. FDA on Wednesday outlined a proposal that would help reduce the use of some antibiotics in animal production to counter bacterial resistance to those drugs when they are prescribed for humans. In its statement on Wednesday, the agency did not specify which antibiotics would be targeted. * It appears FDA aims to halt or curtail the use of antibiotics for weight gain, Chicago-based Daniels Trading commodities broker Craig Turner told Reuters.
Regular soft drinks and many fruit juice beverages and sports drinks are sweetened with added sugars such as sucrose or high fructose corn syrup, while 100-percent fruit juices only contain natural sugars. Milk has natural sugar too, even though it isn’t sweet. Diet soft drinks may taste sweet, but they don’t contain any sugar. “Some dietary recommendations call out ‘sugary’ beverages,” lead researcher Gail Rampersaud told Reuters Health in an email.
Got a success story of your own? Send it to us at success.stories@huffingtonpost.com and you could be featured in our I Lost Weight series! Name: Jacquelyn Moody Age: 29 Height: 5’4″ Before Weight: 204.5 pounds How I Gained It: I had gained most of the weight 10 years ago, then packed on 40 more pounds during pregnancy. My daughter is now 8, so pregnancy weight is no longer an excuse! I’m a carb girl, so I loved eating bread, pasta, cake, cookies. I hated veggies. I had been trying to lose weight for years, but I just couldn’t do it.