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It’s easy to gain weight around the middle, especially as our activity levels or hormones change. Belly fat is worse than other fat, like the kind around your hips and thighs, because it can trigger inflammation and change your hormone balance, which can then contribute to heart disease, type 2 diabetes and certain cancers.

Though it can be stubborn, you can start shedding belly fat without feeling like you’re starving. In fact, you can eat more of certain foods that are rich in the right kinds of nutrients like vitamin D, probiotics, prebiotics and calcium to help. Read more about how adding these specific foods can help you trim your waist.

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Even when we know people’s names, why do we go for days without using them? By using someone’s name, you help them feel seen and acknowledged — and that’s an act of kindness. According to kindness.org’s research in collaboration with the University of Oxford, doing a kind act increases happiness, well-being, trust and compassion. And it can have the same powerful effect on those who receive the act. Try it, and put a smile on both your faces.