Today’s Solutions: April 03, 2025

Nutrition & Wellness

From learning about the health benefits of turmeric to staying up-to-date with the latest superfood trends, discover the best diet tips to improve your health.

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Can’t put down your phone? Try these three tips

Most of us use our phones and devices in some professionally or socially enriching way. During the Pandemic, video calls kept us in touch with our families and let us see newly born family members when we couldn’t be there in person. Smartphones have let us maintain long-distance relationships Read More...

Wine Bed

Why alcohol's giving you restless nights

There’s nothing wrong with having a drink at the end of the day, maybe enjoying the occasional cocktail hour with friends. Evidence even shows that a little red wine with dinner can reduce your risk of type two diabetes. It’s when we drink too much that things get problematic. There’s the Read More...

Cognition in Green Space

Living in green space could greatly help your brain health

Your life is one long equation adding up to different results over your life. The factors in the equation could be your time spent with loved ones over time spent at work used to calculate the result of your overall happiness.  Researchers from Boston University’s School of Public Health have Read More...

Suitcase Desalination

MIT develops desalination system no bigger than a suitcase

One of the great opportunities in desalination research is developing a new way to bring drinkable water to disadvantaged people with limited resources. Engineers and researchers make this possible in many ways, such as innovating less expensive parts or powering their systems with renewable Read More...

Wheels of race bikes in a cyclin race.

Why bicycling is so great for you

Most of us learned to ride a bicycle at a young age, and as the saying goes, it's something you never really forget how. If you are looking for a reason to hop back on the saddle, then here are some perks of the sport to get you motivated. It’s low impact  One of the best benefits of cycling Read More...

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The benefits of archery: 5 reasons to pick up a bow and arrow this summer

Are you looking for a distinct hobby that will open the door to new social circles, or that you could feature on your online dating profile (hello, conversation starter), all while boosting your mental and physical health? Well, archery might be the one to try. Archery isn’t as mainstream as a Read More...

Honey

How healthy is honey?

For those of us with a sweet tooth, honey can seem like a literal lifesaver. We get to drizzle something sweet and syrupy all over our toast, goat cheese, or even in a big stream into our morning tea, and there’s nothing to worry about because it’s a natural, healthy Read More...

Farm to table

The Table to Farm Movement: Anthony Myint on Regenerative Agriculture

Shifting the world’s food production to a regenerative system has been a frequent solution we’ve written about here at The Optimist Daily. In May 2021, Kristy and Summers sat down with award-winning chef Anthony Myint to discuss Zero Foodprint, his project to expand regenerative Read More...

Four foods that can reduce ris

Four foods that can reduce risk of neurodegeneration

Medical researchers are still searching for the cause, and a cure, for Alzheimer's and other causes of dementia. There is no certain way to avoid it, however, scientists have found correlations between certain diets and decreased likelihood of neurocognitive decline. Two particular diets — the Read More...

Person getting food at night from the fridge.

Your gut biome may be responsible for your food cravings

Scientists continue to discover more and more processes that the gut microbiome influences. This population of microbes - including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and their genes - naturally live inside animal guts, interacting with the host body and each other to regulate processes. Researchers have Read More...