The Checkup: Best and Worst Salad Toppings


• I consider myself a bit of a salad fiend. To wit:  I’ve been eating a version of this salad almost every single workday for the past year—and, no, I’m still not sick of it. If you’re looking to build a better salad, check out these salad toppings—calories and nutrition facts included—to find a combo that suits you. [POPSUGAR Fitness]

• Ick. I’m not sure I really want to know, but here it is: all the crazy-scary chemicals in bug spray, mapped out in infographic form. [HuffPost Healthy Living]

• If you’re wheying weighing your protein-powder options (I crack myself up), check out this handy primer on what to expect from whey, casein, soy, egg, and other kinds of powdered protein. [Born Fitness]

• How to pickle anything. Literally—anything. [Institute for Integrative Nutrition]

• So this is a thing, now, on the Left Coast: water “tasting flights,” in which you get to sample waters from around the world. And it costs $12. Oy. [Jezebel]

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