Life Kit editors share a few of our favourite ideas from our March episodes: How to cope with sudden tip requests, shortly clear up a messy residence and the way a lot daylight you may must develop leafy inexperienced greens.

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Life Kit editors share a few of our favourite ideas from our March episodes: How to cope with sudden tip requests, shortly clear up a messy residence and the way a lot daylight you may must develop leafy inexperienced greens.

Images by Reina Takahashi for NPR; Becky Harlan/NPR; Collage by NPR

The beauty of engaged on Life Kit is that the editors and producers get to select up all kinds of nifty life hacks that enhance our each day lives, get monetary savings and improve {our relationships}.

Here are 9 knowledgeable ideas from our March episodes we had been most excited to share — and put into observe in our personal each day lives.

Greek yogurt is a great source of protein. It has about 17 grams per ¾ cup serving. You can eat it plain, add candy or savory toppings, or throw it right into a smoothie. “It’s super versatile and high in casein protein, which is slow to digest, which keeps you full while also promoting muscle protein synthesis,” which is the method of constructing muscle mass, says diet and train scientist Rachele Pojednic, a researcher at Stanford Lifestyle Medicine.

Pack a dark-colored bath towel when traveling with a baby or toddler. “It’s a blanket, it’s for tidying up, it’s a tablecloth, it’s a sun cover, it shields bottoms from hot slides, it dries off swings. It’s a multi-tasking powerhouse,” says Life Kit listener Judith Heise.

Don’t be swayed by seafood labels like ‘wild caught’ and ‘farm raised’ when buying fish. Just as a result of a fish is “farm-raised,” that means it was raised in a pen or tank, doesn’t suggest it is much less sustainable than different seafood. The similar goes for a fish that’s “wild-caught,” or caught from its pure habitat. The most necessary issue is its influence on the atmosphere, says Jennifer Dianto Kemmerly of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, Calif.

If you are in a lot of debt, call your creditors and see if they can lower your payments or your interest rate. Just clarify your state of affairs, says Monique White, a credit score counselor and the top of neighborhood at Self Financial, Inc. Be type and see what they could be capable of do for you. Sometimes it is rather a lot.

If a business you don’t expect to ask for a tip is suddenly asking you for a tip, what should you do? It’s as much as you to resolve whether or not or to not tip and the way a lot, however Shubhranshu Singh, a advertising and marketing professor at Johns Hopkins University, likes to depart a ten% tip. If an institution is asking for a tip, it is usually a sign that the employees there should not getting paid a minimal wage. So it is good to err on the aspect of leaving one thing.

To help prevent eye strain at your workspace, make sure the top of your computer screen is at or just below eye level. That method you are not positioning your head and neck at an uncomfortable angle. Increase your display screen’s distinction and match its brightness to the extent of sunshine round you, so your eyes do not need to work as arduous to see the display screen.

Quickly get a messy house back in order (with minimal effort). Go round the home with a trash bag and acquire all of the trash. Then go round andcollect all of the dishes — like these water glasses in your bedside desk — and put them within the sink. Then go round with a hamper and acquire any soiled laundry.

Don’t fear about really taking out the trash, washing the dishes or doing the laundry till later when you could have extra vitality.

Want to grow food but don’t get a lot of light? Go for something leafy. Not each plant wants a ton of solar. Yolanda Burrell, proprietor of Pollinate Farm & Garden in Oakland, Calif, has a easy rule of thumb for daylight: “If you pick the fruit off of the plant, then it needs more sun. If you’re just eating the leaves, then you need less sun.” So tomatoes, squash and cucumbers want solar to ripen. Leafy greens, not a lot.

It’s OK not to have a close relationship with your sibling. If you are hitting your head towards the wall making an attempt to determine be tremendous shut, possibly it is best to decrease your expectations. People usually feen like they need to have a “level of closeness” with their siblings, however these relationships do not “have to look any particular way,” says Nedra Glover Tawwab, a licensed therapist and the writer of Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships.

A sibling relationship is extra like a e-book that you just’re writing collectively, says Geoffrey Greif, co-author of the e-book Adult Sibling Relationships. That begins with asking, who am I on this story? What form of sibling do I need to be?

The digital story was written by Malaka Gharib and edited by Clare Marie Schneider. The visible editor is Beck Harlan. We’d love to listen to from you. Leave us a voicemail at 202-216-9823, or e mail us at LifeKit@npr.org.

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