The Checkup: How to Perfect Your Protein Intake

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• It’s no secret that protein serves as a building block for all sorts of things — from healthy skin to toned muscles — but what’s a bit less clear is just how much protein you’re supposed to be eating, and how you should be getting it. Here to clear things up, five nutritionist-approved tricks for perfecting your protein intake. [Well + Good]

• Your friend with a Fitbit isn’t the only one obsessed with the 10,000-steps-a-day rule: Trainer Harley Pasternak encourages his clients to get their steps in, too. [POPSUGAR Fitness]

• If you sleep next to a snorer every night, this chart on how to stop snoring, will make you jump with joy. [Huffington Post]

• If you’re anything like me, you don’t need a reason to eat more watermelon, but here are a few, just ‘cause. [Zelle]

• Why willpower and weight loss might not have all that much to do with each other, after all. [Science of Us]

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