The Checkup: 20 Easy, Out-of-the-Box Salsa Recipes

• If you’re like me and salsa is both your favorite condiment (it goes on everything!) and dip (it goes with everything!), check this out: 20 mouth-wateringly-delicious homemade salsa recipes with ingredients you’ve probably never thought to put together. Like, for example, green onions and strawberries. And cherries, basil and balsamic vinegar. Click through to get them all. [Whole Foods Market blog]

• Local breast-cancer patients and survivors are posing for an inspirational vintage-style pin-up calendar. I love this idea. [Newsworks]

• Smile! Cheerful people have a lower risk of heart attack than the Ebenezer Scrooges of the world, according to a new study. [Futurity.org]

• Time to crank up that treadmill, y’all. A new study found that you usually eat less after a super hard workout than after a moderate one—which could inch you ever closer to your weight-loss goals. [Runner’s World]

• How safe is hot yoga? A new study found out. [Prevention]

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