TO EAT YOUR VEGGIES: Keep reading this

When people regularly read helpful, upbeat articles about health and nutrition—like you’re reading now—they eat 60% more vegetables every week without even trying, report South Dakota State University researchers. Daniela Jakubowicz, M.D., author of The Big Breakfast Diet, explains that reading positive, health-focused stories stimulates the prefrontal cortex—a brain region that revs self-control and increases your drive to care for yourself.