The Checkup: Is It Actually Possible to ‘Catch Up’ on Sleep?

And more health reads to start your day.

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• If you stay up way later than you intend, you can always make up those lost hours tomorrow night … er, right? [Women’s Health]

• Time for a reality check: Here’s a grim look at what actually happens inside your body when you smoke. [Refinery 29]

• Do you really need to floss? [Men’s Health]

• Found! The easiest, fastest way to make hearty steel cut oats for a piping hot breakfast in two minutes flat. [POPSUGAR Fitness]

• Did you know only 5 percent of pregnant women actually deliver their babies on their due date? New research may have figured out a way to come up with more accurate due-date predictions. [TIME]

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