The Checkup: Need New Running Shoes? These Are the Best Running Shoes of 2016

And more healthy reads for your week.

• If you’re on the hunt for a new pair of running shoes (’tis the season to give yourself a gift, after all), start your research with this list of the best running shoes of 2016, tested by the folks over at — where else? — Runner’s World. [Runner’s World]

• You know what’s easier than resolving to do something new for an entire year? Resolving to do something for one month. Here, 12 ideas to last you all through 2017. [POPSUGAR Fitness]

• Ruh-roh: If you bought any Yankee Candles as holiday gifts, you might want to return those babies — the company just recalled a bunch of products. [Bustle]

• Because gift-buying is hard: 31 stocking stuffer ideas for the health-obsessed human in your life. [Refinery29]

• Day-trip destination: Verde, a new “fine-casual” salad spot in New York that looks bangin’. [Grub Street]

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