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Shaun T. leading a fitness work-out on a sports field. Image Credit: Robin Marchant/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Cardio workouts form the basis of the Insanity workout DVD series, with some body-weight resistance exercises added throughout for circuit training. The 10 workouts created by Beachbody and hosted by trainer Shaun T. range in duration from 30 to 86 minutes; these workouts are designed to raise your heart rate and burn calories. As cardio provides an important component of any weight loss plan, a set of workouts as intense as Insanity can certainly help you reach your goal....

Enjoy healthy balanced meals that focus on whole-grain carbs and veggies for spleen qi deficiency. Image Credit: Manuta/iStock/GettyImages In Chinese medicine, spleen qi refers to the life energy associated with the spleen network. Practitioners of Chinese medicine don’t think only of the abdominal organ that Western medicine calls the spleen. The spleen network is a better name for the organ in Chinese medicine, because it relates to the flow of energy in the body and the entire digestive process....

Crunches strengthen your core muscles, but you need cardio to drop the belly fat. Image Credit: FatCamera/E+/GettyImages Strong abdominals don’t always equate to a skinny midsection. Crunches, along with other abdominal exercises, build endurance and power in your belly muscles, but do little to reduce the fat that surrounds them. To lose belly fat, you need to do total-body cardio exercise that burns calories so you use stored fat. Advertisement Tip Crunches do not reduce belly fat, but they do strengthen the underlying muscles....

Eating plenty of fiber helps prevent constipation. Image Credit: Comstock/Stockbyte/Getty Images You may have heard that your digestive woes – constipation or diarrhea, digestive discomfort or heartburn – are all related to digestive enzyme insufficiencies, and that you can treat them with supplemental enzymes. The fact is that digestive enzyme deficiencies are very rare. Constipation, for instance, has nothing to do with your digestive enzymes. Advertisement Constipation Constipation is the inability to produce a regular bowel movement, often coupled with hard to pass, very solid, or painful stools....

A woman is preparing food with her son. Image Credit: Cathy Yeulet/Hemera/Getty Images Net carbohydrates are the carbohydrates that have an immediate blood glucose impact. Calculating net carbohydrates properly is important to understanding the foods you eat and how they affect your diet. When you are reducing the carbohydrates in your diet or taking medications such as insulin that are measured in relation to carbohydrates, net carbohydrates are an essential calculation....

A low carb diet might have some side effects. Image Credit: Design Pics/Tomas del Amo/Design Pics/Getty Images Low-carbohydrate diet plans have become incredibly popular. These diets can support weight loss and benefit your health in various ways. Unfortunately, the average low-carbohydrate diet may be accompanied by side effects, like the “keto flu” and bouts of low-carb diet fatigue. Advertisement Tip According to a September 2018 study published in the ​Indian Journal of Medical Research​ and a December 2018 study from the ​Journal of the College of Family Physicians of Canada​, loss of energy is a common side effect associated with the low-carbohydrate diet....

Turn up the beets? Image Credit: dianazh/iStock/GettyImages Beets — beta vulgaris — are round or sometimes cylinder-shaped root vegetables. Eaten fresh, cooked, pickled or canned, beets have been around since the Greeks ate them 2000 years ago. Advertisement The deep red color of some beets can show up in your urine if you eat them, and might make you think you have blood in your urine. This is particularly alarming for people who use blood-thinning medication, as bleeding is one of the risks of such a drug....

If you feel dizzy, shaky or nauseated after your workout, your blood sugar may have crashed. Image Credit: piranka/E+/GettyImages You may think that hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, is only possible if you have diabetes. However, exercise-induced non-diabetic hypoglycemia can cause low blood sugar even if you don’t have diabetes. Advertisement What's it like? Post-workout, you might feel shaky, dizzy or nauseous — your blood sugar has crashed. Here's why it happens, how to recognize the signs and the treatments that can help....

Research doesn’t support claims that glucosamine helps aching joints. Image Credit: Wavebreakmedia/iStock/GettyImages Many people take glucosamine hoping the supplement will help aching knees, hips or other joints. It’s for sale at your local pharmacy, health food store and supermarket. But you may be wondering: Is glucosamine safe for me? And does this joint supplement really work? Advertisement What Is Glucosamine? Glucosamine is something your body already makes. The body changes this natural substance into building blocks for the cartilage found in your joints, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)....

Group of teenage girls eating lunch together at school. Image Credit: tetmc/iStock/Getty Images Obesity among adolescents has increased since the dawn of the 21st century, but one way a 17-year-old can avoid weight-related health risks is to eat a balanced diet. Although regular exercise also contributes to a teen’s overall health, making nutritious dietary choices and keeping consumption of unhealthy drinks and foods to a minimum can improve your teen’s well-being....

Plan your strep throat diet around soothing liquids and soft, easy-to-swallow foods. Image Credit: LaraBelova/iStock/GettyImages The pain of strep throat can make you not want to eat or drink anything for fear that certain choices could irritate your throat even more. Your best bets? Liquids and easy-to-swallow soft foods — both can help keep you nourished and ease strep throat symptoms. Read on for the best options. Advertisement While there's no recommended diet for strep throat, the foods you eat when you have strep throat can help soothe your pain and give your body the vitamins and minerals it needs to recover, says Caroline West Passerrello, RDN, LDN, a Pittsburgh-based registered dietitian nutritionist and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Video of the Day ​Read more:​ Is Cold or Hot Better for a Sore Throat?...

Using a filter to purify your tap water can remove any lingering contaminants like bacteria. Image Credit: PeopleImages/E+/GettyImages Having safe, clean drinking water is an important part of your overall wellbeing. And when it comes to picking the right type, you may be wondering how purified water stacks up to other forms of the fluid, like tap or distilled water. Advertisement Here's what to know about purified water, including what it is, whether it's safe and water filtration advantages and disadvantages....

Honeydew melon causes allergies in some people. Image Credit: margouillatphotos/iStock/Getty Images The honeydew is a large, yellow melon with moist, sweet flesh. Although it is rather uncommon to have an allergy to honeydew melon, they do occur, according to the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network. Consult an allergist to determine if you have an allergy to honeydew or other types of melon. People with food allergies often are allergic to more than one type of food or allergen....

Going up and down stairs for 10 minutes builds endurance and strengthens muscles. Image Credit: torwai/iStock/GettyImages You’ve probably heard that taking the stairs instead of the elevator is better for you. But are the benefits of climbing stairs for 10 minutes that much better than other forms of exercise like walking? Depending on your goals and current health, you may want to add stair climbing to your workouts. Advertisement Tip Depending on your current weight and the intensity of activity, you can expect to burn between 35 and 70 calories going up and down the stairs for 10 minutes....

Walking is an easy-to-perform exercise suitable for all ages. Walking three mph, for six hours, each day is a lot of cardiovascular exercise and far exceeds the American College of Sports Medicine's recommended accumulation of more than 250 minutes of moderate physical activity to induce weight loss. Walking is a moderate- to low-impact exercise that is practical for most people to participate in and can be performed on a treadmill, sidewalk or walking trail....

Knowing how many calories in a pound of fat can help you create a successful weight-loss strategy. Image Credit: Guido Mieth/Taxi/GettyImages If you’ve ever counted calories to lose weight, you know that the number of calories per pound of fat is crucial information to know. And you’ve likely stumbled on this statistic more than once in your research: One pound of body fat is equal to approximately 3,500 calories. Advertisement In other words, if your goal is to, say, drop 1 pound of weight every week, it's as easy as burning 3,500 additional calories in your workouts over those seven days, or removing about 500 calories from your diet every day....

Although one pound of snow crab legs represents considerably more than the recommended serving, the caloric “hit” from them is about 520 calories. Image Credit: Supersmario/iStock/GettyImages Snow crabs, also known as “queen” crabs — because they’re somewhat smaller than king crabs — abound in colder parts of the Atlantic and Pacific. Many people find the crabs’ legs delicious enough to eat by the pound, making the actual calories in crab legs’ massive servings an obvious question....

Cayenne pepper is made from dry ground peppers. Image Credit: Chaiyabutra/iStock/Getty Images Cayenne pepper consists of ground red chili flakes, and is unrelated to black pepper. The hot spice contains the key ingredient capsaicin that delivers the heat in cayenne pepper. The spice originated in South and Central America thousands of year ago. Today, the spice provides a variety of nutritional and health benefits. Learn how to use cayenne pepper when cooking and at mealtime....

You can cook parboiled rice in a saucepan or rice cooker. Image Credit: Yagi Studio/DigitalVision/GettyImages Rice has been a food staple for centuries. After harvesting, the grains are processed according to marketing and preparation specifications. The outer hull is removed for brown rice and the outer hull and bran for white rice, sacrificing some nutrients in the process. Advertisement Parboiling, or precooking, is done before the hulls are removed, returning some of those nutrients to the endosperm, or the soft white insides of the rice grains....

In some homes, a pork roast is the centerpiece of a holiday meal. Image Credit: Jonathan Lovekin/Photolibrary/GettyImages With its mild flavor and juicy consistency, pork loin is ideal for a quick weeknight dinner or a special holiday meal — it all comes down to how you cook it. For a simple yet delicious dish, roast pork loin with sauerkraut and potatoes. It’s easy to prepare and tastes like heaven in your mouth....