The Checkup: A Full Year’s Worth of Totally Doable Weight-Loss Tips

And more healthy reads for your morning.

• BuzzFeed is an unlikely treasure trove of weight-loss tips. And being the kind people they are, they’ve compiled a bunch of their useful weight-loss posts full of totally doable tips — think: ban mindless couch eating (done!) — into a GIANT master list featuring 333 doable weight-loss tips. To avoid feeling overwhelmed, maybe read a tip a day as food for thought. Skipping weekends (because you gotta give yourself a break), that’s a full year’s worth of tips to take in! [BuzzFeed]

• Here’s what Paleolithic diets around the globe really looked like. (Hint: Not at all like yours.) [Outside]

• Interesting! Here’s why a happy hour drink aimed at relaxing you can have the exact opposite effect, causing your anxiety to shoot through the roof. [Refinery29]

• If you’ve been searching high and low for an acne cure — trying anything you can find — you might want to make your next stop a yoga class. Really. [MindBodyGreen]

• It’s not just food that can lead to bloating: As gut expert Dr. Steven Gundry points out, stuff like over-the-counter painkillers and antibiotics — both the medicinal kind and the kind your meat gets fed — can screw with your gut health, too, leading to unwanted bloating. NOOOOO. [Well + Good]

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