30 Friday Jan 2015
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Caffeine can stay in your system for up to 10 hours, so assess your sensitivity. If you’re having troubled falling asleep, or not waking up refreshed, cut yourself off from major sources of caffeine by lunch.
29 Thursday Jan 2015
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Go anyway. Research has found that regularly spending time with at least 10 different friends makes people healthier and happier. That’s because having a wide support network helps you through tough times.
28 Wednesday Jan 2015
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Getting lots of B vitamins can reduce your stress hormone output when you’re feeling anxious. So if you know you’ll be facing a challenging day, eat some of these foods: Eggs, avocado, fish, shiitake mushrooms and sunflower seeds.
27 Tuesday Jan 2015
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It’s water with lemon! We dehydrate overnight – and even slight dehydration drains our energy. So, drinking water in the morning will perk you up – and the scent of lemon triggers neurotransmitters in the brain that increase alertness.
26 Monday Jan 2015
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Studies show that we’re more likely to binge on unhealthy food after a big accomplishment or win. In fact, a study in the Journal of Consumer Research found that pride can override our self-control – and we reward ourselves with bad-for-you foods.
23 Friday Jan 2015
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Then guess what the healthiest cheese to eat is.
Goat cheese! Because as cheeses age, they releases water, and becomes denser and harder – so, they have more calories per ounce. So, even though goat cheese may taste fattening because it’s soft and creamy, it has fewer calories than harder cheeses, like jack and cheddar.
22 Thursday Jan 2015
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A study in the journal Obesity found that people who ate whole fruit felt 30% fuller 3 hours later than those who drank a fruit smoothie. Why?
Because liquid gets digested faster than solid food, and whole fruit contains
a lot more fiber than a smoothie.
21 Wednesday Jan 2015
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It releases the hormone serotonin, which helps us feel more awake.
Chewing gum can even help you do better on tests…In studies, students who chewed peppermint gum while taking a test felt more alert and got higher scores than those who didn’t.
But there’s one thing chewing minty gum won’t do: Help us eat healthier! That’s because the flavor makes fruits and vegetables less appetizing. So, when people chew mint gum, they eat fewer good-for-you foods.
The lesson: Eat a healthy meal – THEN chew gum.
20 Tuesday Jan 2015
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Go ahead and put Adele or Norah Jones on repeat. McGill University researchers reviewed hundreds of studies and found that relaxing music, with a slow tempo, relieves anxiety. It lowers our stress hormones and increases feel-good dopamine in the brain.
19 Monday Jan 2015
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Eat an apricot! They’re one of the top natural sources of vitamin A… Which is a nutrient that switches on the genes that control insulin production. And just one apricot can help to prevent an energy-sapping crash.
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