Month: January 2022

Healthy Snack Pairings

Healthy Snack Pairings

Fred and Ginger, Sonny and Cher, tequila and salt, hammer and nail, insomnia and the internet…some things were just meant to go together. Even in the oxymoronic world of healthy snacks, some things are meant to go together, even if, at first blush, they seem 

The Sweet Health Risks of Added Sugars

The Sweet Health Risks of Added Sugars

If you’ve taken a minute to look at food labels recently, you should have noticed a relatively new addition called “added sugars.” The next obvious question is, what are added sugars? Sugars can be broken into two categories. The first is naturally occurring sugars such 

Stress Relieving Foods

Stress Relieving Foods

Stress– noun, a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. In the human body, stress, at one time, prepared us for action…the fight or flight response, generally. It still does today. However, its source has changed a 

What’s a HIIT Workout and Why Should You Care?

What’s a HIIT Workout and Why Should You Care?

As a former member of the military, I’ve had my fill of acronyms. However, even in civilian life I haven’t escaped them, but HIIT (pronounced “hit,” but usually does not involving hitting anything) is worth learning.  HIIT stands for “high intensity interval training” and it