The Checkup: Science Says This Calorie-Free Trick Makes Your Food Taste Better

And more healthy reads for your day.

• New research shows Instagramming your homemade green juice or your avocado toast at Bluestone Lane, while it will certainly earn you a few eye rolls, delays gratification, which gives you the perception your food tastes better without adding any calories at all. [Science of Us]

• Here, a no-equipment ab exercise you can do anywhere. Because warm weather — and trips to the Shore! — is right around the corner. [Active]

• This guy’s faux weight-loss transformation photos are both upsetting (Are they ALL fake?!) and impressive. [Huffington Post]

• Seems workout tees are all about girl power lately. [Well + Good]

• Because no one should have to live a life without peanut butter: New research shows, introducing babies that are at-risk for peanut allergies to peanuts early in life could protect against the allergy. [TIME]

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