12/11/18 Newsletter: What To Eat For Amazing Sleep

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Spotlight

If you want to catch better Z’s, eat sleep-inducing foods. Kiwi is rich in serotonin, the chemical that helps regulate how tired you feel, while white rice has enough glycine to trigger your brain to sleep more quickly. Happy snoozing! [Swirled]

Life Hack Of The Day: Dust Edition

Use a piece of tape to pick up that last line of dust that won’t go into the dust pan.

Health

Did You Know? Stretch marks are common, but you may not realize why you get them (or how to get rid of them). Stretch marks can be created by weight gain or loss, or even corticosteroid creams. They usually disappear (or at least fade) over time, but you can help them fade quicker with a daily coffee scrub or almond oil application. [Swirled]

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Career + Finance

Amazon is giving away free gifts now through Monday, December 17, at Manhattan Whole Foods Amazon Lockers. All you have to do is ship an item to a participating location. Inside your locker, next to your item, you’ll find a free gift like an Amazon Echo, Bose speakers, Sony headphones and more. [Swirled]

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Food + Drink

Sour beers are your perfect step up from IPAs. The brews are intentionally made to have an acidic, tart or sour taste. A Belgian-style Lambic beer, for example, is fermented with wild yeast, giving it a funky sour taste with dark, earthy notes. [Swirled]

Recipe Of The Day: Spice up your weekday meal prep game by making a ginger meatball stir-fry. With spicy chicken meatballs, veggies like broccoli, carrots and sugar snap peas and a sweet-heat sauce, you’ve got yourself an exciting desk lunch coworkers will drool over. [Swirled]

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Travel

You can play with hedgehogs at a Thailand cafe for $5. Harinezumi Cafe in Chiang Mai is home to 40 hedgehogs, and you can befriend one while you sip a coffee or tea. Added bonus: You can guinea pigs fresh bamboo leaves here, too. [Swirled]

Deal Of The Day: You can fly roundtrip to Switzerland for just $303. Prices on flights leaving U.S. cities like Baltimore, NYC, Dallas, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. to Swiss cities like Zurich and Geneva are unbelievably cheap if you plan to fly between January and May of next year. [The Points Guy]

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