The Checkup: This Is Your Brain on Food Porn 

And more healthy reads for your morning.

• A new review done by a team of psychologists and neuroscientists at Oxford, published in the journal Brain and Cognition, takes a look at how all those pizza and egg-sandwich Instagrams you drool over on the daily are impacting your brain — and your waistline. Hint: The findings aren’t quite as pretty as a freshly made Nutella-stuffed donut. (Insert drool here.) [Science of Us]

• Five handy cooking tips from Leanne Brown, the woman who wrote the book — literally — on eating well on a slim budget. [Well + Good]

• Just a little something to think about: A new study found that mindful people have less belly fat. [TIME]

• A recipe for a filling, high-protein breakfast that literally takes less than two minutes to make? We are sold. [Men’s Health]

• This is why even the fittest of folks get winded walking up a flight of SEPTA stairs. (It’s not just you!) [Greatist]

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