The Checkup: Tired Today? 7 Tips for Coping with Post-Daylight Saving Fatigue

• There’s nothing awesome about losing an hour of sleep, and having only one day to catch up on that lost hour is even less awesome. So if you’re exhausted today, I totally understand. HealthDay published a nice piece over the weekend with tips to help you adjust to the one-hour time change. Including: for the next two weeks after Daylight Saving, get up five minutes earlier every couple of days. Don’t eat within a few hours of bedtime, and definitely don’t use your computer within an hour of when you’d like to hit the sack. Check out more sleep-better tips here.

• If you’ve got some time, check out this fascinating long read over on the New York Times about a radical new treatment to cure kids of food allergies. One word: desensitization.

• Here’s one reason why schools should allow kids to chew gum in class: New research found chewing gum could boost brainpower. A study showed it can improve concentration in memory-related tasks. More here.

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