The Checkup: Why Daylight Saving Time Makes You Hate Life

And more healthy reads for your Friday.

• Daylight Saving Time is coming up this Sunday, which means we’ll all be getting an hour less sleep — and some of us will be complaining about that lost hour for days on end. Here, why Daylight Saving Time makes you miserable, explained. [Futurity]

• If you’re thinking about hiring a personal trainer, here are a few questions to ask them before you commit. You know, so you don’t have to break up with them a few weeks later. [Well + Good]


• Call me lame, but my thoughts right now are this: Who needs to go out on a Friday night when you can do this dance workout in your living room? [POPSUGAR Fitness]

• According to new research, Americans are eating a lot of super-processed foods. As in over half of our calories come from ultra-processed foods — much of it filled with sugar. Yikes. [The Atlantic]

• The Doorway Effect: Why you forget what you walked into a room in search of the minute you walk into the room, explained by science. Finally! [Science of Us]

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