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5 Biggest Salad Mistakes You’re Making

Some days I toss greens with pico de gallo, black beans, and guacamole, others involve grilled veggies, quinoa, and almonds, or roasted chickpeas and olive tapenade. Include some fat for sure—just choose wisely, and be mindful of your portions to prevent going overboard.

Americans Crave This More Than Sex (in the Bedroom)

Getting enough z’s is critical for cognitive and mental functions, explained Meir Kryger, MD, a professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and author of The iGuide to Sleep. Moreover, chronic sleep deprivation has been linked to hypertension, cardiovascular disease and even premature death.

Can Arguing With Your Partner Make You Fat?

In the study, 43 healthy couples married for at least three years filled out surveys on marital satisfaction, past mood disorders, and symptoms of depression. They also took a few blood samples to assess insulin (which regulates fat storage) and triglycerides, blood fats that could increase your risk of heart disease when present in large amounts. “The arguments tend to be really reliable in assessing marriage hostility,” says study lead

The 10 Best Nutrition Tips Ever

Office managers discovered that placing the chocolate candies in opaque containers as opposed to glass ones, and giving healthier snacks like nuts and figs more prominent shelf space, curbed M&M intake by 3.1 million calories in just seven weeks. Chill pasta to melt fat.

Breakthrough Prizes in science, math earn winners $3 million each

By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Academia doesn’t usually bring rich financial rewards. But that changed Sunday for recipients of a record 12 Breakthrough Prizes, the award created two years ago by Russian billionaire venture capitalist Yuri Milner, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and other tech industry luminaries. Each prize is worth $3 million, almost three times the cash a Nobel Prize winner receives. This year