The Checkup: Why You Shouldn’t Feel Bad About Skipping Breakfast
• If you’ve been shamed by your mother and your significant other and your barista for skipping the most important meal of the day (who is hungry before the sun rises?!) for years now, rejoice while reading this argument from pediatrics professor Aaron E. Carroll, who says, really, “breakfast has no mystical powers.” So if you’re never hungry, don’t worry too much about skipping it. [The New York Times]
• If you marvel at the people who say things like “I just HAVE to get my workout in — I’m not happy without it,” and wonder to yourself what planet they came from, take note: Here, eight hacks to learn to love exercise. Soon you’ll be one of them. [Huffington Post]
• Ack! This chart outlines how many small McDonald’s fries worth of sodium are in other foods, like items from the Whole Foods prepared foods bar. Warning: It’s not pretty. [Vox]
• A question I’m sure many ladies out there have asked themselves: If you’re on birth control, do you really need to go through “that time of the month” every month? Or even at all? [NPR]
• Here, 10 steps to totally kill the guacamole game next time you have a dinner party. [The Cut]
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