Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are officially packing their bags for Washington, DC.

The couple will reportedly live in a $5.5 million home in the Kalorama section of the capital city, The Washingtonian reported, citing real estate sources. It is unclear whether the Trump-Kushner family has leased or purchased the nearly 7,000-square-foot home, which has six bedrooms and last sold on December 22.

Kalorama is the same neighborhood the Obama family will reportedly inhabit once the president leaves office. The relatively small area is popular with politicians and DC insiders for its seclusion and privacy.

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The home was designed by architect Waddy Wood and built in 1923.

It was recently given a full renovation.

The home does not have much of a front yard, which is common for the neighborhood. It's close to the street, but the front door sits high with double steps leading up.

Like many young people living in the outrageously expensive San Francisco Bay Area, Sarah Patterson found her first city dwelling on Craigslist. Instead of a tiny apartment, however, her new home was located in a marina.

Patterson has lived in a sailboat for about a year now. She tells Business Insider the money she saved by not renting an apartment enabled her to launch a startup — a direct-to-consumer, organic skincare company called Salinity — and still do things like any other 24-year-old.

Take a look inside Patterson's life at sea. 

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At 24, Patterson became a homeowner and a startup founder. "How many people can say that?" she says with a smile from her perch at the back of the sailboat.

After moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2016, she found and purchased a sailboat on Craigslist in four days. She wanted to feel close to nature, "in the middle of it all."

In November, Patterson moved into a new sailboat (pictured) with her now-husband, Charlie. They met in the marina just a few months earlier and eloped.

Finding the right man was like finding her first boat, she says: "When you know, you know."

Patterson declined to name the cost of her and Charlie's sailboat. In the Bay Area, boat owners pay between $250 and $1,111 a month to dock at a marina. Additional fees apply if the person wants to live aboard their vessel. Patterson warns that the cost of upkeep can also be prohibitive.

Today, she runs her startup, Salinity, from the 41-foot-long abode.

If you hit the new year with an ambitious set of fitness goals, your body might be feeling a little sore at the moment. And that soreness might go away after a little light exercise, or on its own in a couple of days.

But if you actually injure yourself, it's important to understand the symptoms and the best ways to recover. 

To help you get better as fast as possible, Column Five, in collaboration with Concordia University, St. Paul, came up with this guide to the most common sports injuries. 

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New York City's Waldorf Astoria is one of the most legendary hotels in the world.

Its suites have hosted every US president since Herbert Hoover, and Hollywood legends Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, and Frank Sinatra have all at different times called the residential towers home. Countless lavish social events were held in its ballrooms, and its kitchens were the birthplace of red velvet cupcakes and the Waldorf salad.  

While last year the hotel celebrated its 85th anniversary, it will close indefinitely for renovations on February 28. Since 2014, when the property was bought from Hilton Worldwide by Chinese insurance company Anbang for $1.95 billion, plans for a major overhaul have been on the horizon. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission is working to preserve parts of the interior, and Anbang has agreed to comply, Bloomberg reported in September. Though there are no blueprints to see yet, Anbang is reportedly planning to change most of the rooms into condominiums.  

Business Insider recently visited both the hotel and the towers to talk to four employees and hear their firsthand accounts of over 100 years of combined experience there. Their stories, plus the history behind the iconic hotel, are below. 

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The Waldorf Astoria was originally two separate hotels that were created because of a feud between two cousins, William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV. The two hotels were next door to one another on Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street. Eventually, the cousins were able to come to a truce, and they connected the hotels by hallway. The hotels were demolished in 1929 to make way for the Empire State Building, and the Waldorf Astoria name was sold for $1 to Lucius Boomer, who began construction on the hotel's current location.

Source: History.com

The current hotel is located at 301 Park Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, and the primarily residential Waldorf Towers are situated at the top. When it opened in 1931, the new Waldorf Astoria was the tallest and largest hotel in the world.

President Herbert Hoover mentioned the brand-new hotel in a radio broadcast from the White House: "The opening of the new Waldorf Astoria ... marks the measure of nation's growth in power, in comfort and in artistry."

Source: Waldorf Astoria New York

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China’s still getting hit with intense levels of air pollution. 

As of Wednesday, Beijing was under a "red alert" for smog — the highest of four levels — and a "yellow alert" for fog. Other areas, particularly in northern China were still under red alert as of Wednesday for both fog and smog.

This photo, by CNN chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto, shows just how insane the smog has gotten, enveloping the capital so much that just the tops of the buildings can be seen.

The high pollution has been going on for a number of weeks, causing flight delays, and leading to traffic bans, as part of what Business Insider's Louise Liu called  "smog season" or "airpocalypse." Colder temperatures means more coal is burned to heat homes, which exacerbates China's air pollution problem. 

Coal, and things like soot and dust, contain a particulate matter called PM 2.5. The particulates are tiny, which makes it easy for them to get stuck in the lungs, leading to conditions like asthma and chronic lung disease. As of Wednesday, the concentration of PM 2.5 in Beijing was 186 µg/m3 — seven times higher than what's considered healthy. 

Here's a video showing the smog roll in on Sunday.

The smog is expected to lift by the end of the week.

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My gym membership costs $90 a month.

I know.

Really — I know.

Yes, I have tried to negotiate, and yes, I've looked into other gyms, but after joining my Manhattan chain on a corporate discount that was about $20 less than I currently pay, I couldn't bear to leave the gym when I went back to civilian status after changing jobs. I love the teachers! I know the schedule! The locations are so convenient!

That's how they get you.

Anyway, the price of my gym is what it is, and I paid for a year in advance just to get that rate. So I better make it worth my money. Every night that I "don't feel like going" means I'm wasting cash, and as someone who would be naturally well suited to those hover chairs from Wall-E, there are lots of nights I need to turn "don't feel like" into "can't wait."

How do I force myself to go? Below, I'm confessing the motivation tricks that get me off the couch and onto the spin bike. I can't guarantee they'll work for you — I can't even guarantee they'll continue to work for me — but this is what works right now.

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I leave my gym bag at the office.

This is decidedly trickier if you're the type to work out before and after work, but I haven't yet reached that level of lunacy. As someone who exclusively exercises at night, I bring my gym bag home, empty it, refill it, and bring it to work the next day, whether I'm planning to go to the gym or not.

On the weekend, I just bring it home and then back on Monday morning. This way, I'm never caught without sneakers … and I get an arm workout during my commute.

I think of the money.

The brilliant thing about belonging to a gym, as opposed to those $35 boutique spin classes so many of my friends adore, is that since you've already paid, it gets cheaper every time you go.

That's amazing! If I go to one class in a month, it's a $90 class. Two, they're each $45. Nine classes? At nine, which works out to fewer than three times a week, I'm paying only $10 per class.

I ask my office gym buddies if they're going ... every day.

Because you can't ask and then go, "Oh, just wondering. I will not be joining you. I have some important Netflix to watch."

The first week of the year is generally the busiest time for online-dating services.

PlentyofFish, for example, expects to see a whopping 48% increase in traffic on January 1, according to a press release. And Bustle reports that other services — including Hinge, Match, and Happn — see huge spikes in signups and activity in the week after New Year's.

But just because you're open to finding love online doesn't mean it's easy. In fact, it can be terrifying to wade through thousands of nearby matches in the hopes of finding someone decent (who thinks you're decent, too).

To make things a little less intimidating, we rounded up some of the most practical online-dating advice we published this year. Read on to learn the tricks of the trade — and the biggest mistakes to avoid.

1. Choose a photo where you're taking up space

Research suggests that we're more attracted to people in expansive — as opposed to contracted — postures, even if we don't consciously realize it. Men especially appear more attractive to women when they're holding their arms upward in a "V," reaching out to grab something, or standing in another expansive position.

Whatever you do, avoid choosing a profile photo where you're crossing your arms or hunched over.

2. Don't choose a photo where you're covering your face

Tinder's in-house sociologist, Jess Carbino, told Business Insider that one of the biggest mistakes Tinder users make is obscuring their face in their profile photo. That includes wearing glasses or sunglasses, or even a hat.

The same logic likely applies to users on other dating services.

According to Carbino, we use people's faces to make judgments about their personality, which are sometimes (but not always) accurate. So if people can't fully see your face, they might not be able to assess whether you're extroverted or kind, for example. Meaning they just might move on to the next option.

3. Include a question in your profile

Carbino also told Business Insider that adding a question to your profile can make it easier for someone to message you, because they already have something to talk about.

For example, if you mention in your profile that you like to travel, list a few places you've been and then ask: "What's your next destination?"

If you're an art fan, cite artists whose work you enjoy and then ask: "Who's your favorite artist?"

4. If you're a woman, take the initiative to message a man

Recent data from OKCupid suggests that women (those who want to date men, anyway) fare a lot better when they muster the courage to message men.

In fact, OKCupid found that women are 2.5 times more likely to receive a response to their messages than men are.

Moreover, women who send the first message wind up meeting more attractive men than women who wait for a man to ping them, the report finds. That's because women generally message men who are five points more attractive (as rated by OKCupid users) than they are, while they typically receive messages from men who are seven points less attractive than they are.

Interestingly, OKCupid also found that men send 3.5 times the number of messages women send, suggesting that few women are aware of the advantages of stepping up to the plate.

That's possibly because of lingering social stigma about women making the first move. Whitney Wolfe, the founder of dating app Bumble, on which women can message men but not the other way around, told Sophia Amoruso: 

"I can't tell you how many times in college I had a crush on a guy, or I thought a guy was cute, and I would text him, and my friends would be like, 'You just committed the ultimate sin.' Like, 'What have you done? You texted him first?'"

Wolfe went on: "No thank you. … It's so outdated, and it's so needed for something to come in and say 'enough.'"

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It’s not exactly a secret that Cuba has notoriously bad internet.

For those travelers heading to Cuba for vacation, the lack of internet is something to keep in mind — don’t expect to be hailing Ubers or using Google Maps to navigate when you get lost.

All internet service in the long-stagnating island nation is controlled by the state-owned telecom company ETSECA and primarily provided through crowded, government-approved Wi-Fi hotspots around the country.

Here's what it's like to use:

Paid Wi-Fi hotspots are scattered through major cities. They are instantly recognizable by the crowds of young Cubans gathered with their eyes glued to an assortment of smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

Since 2014, the government has opened approximately 237 paid public Wi-Fi hotspots, according to Reuters, which cost $2 per hour to use.

That’s not a lot of internet access for a country of 11 million people.

The Cuban government blames the country's poor internet access on the US trade embargo, which they say has obstructed the introduction of new network technology and prevented them from accumulating funds to buy equipment from other nations, according to The Associated Press. Cuba estimates that the embargo has cost it $753.69 billion since the US implemented it in 1960.

Critics say Cuba has poor internet by design, to prevent most Cubans from accessing outside culture or information.

For tourists, getting online isn’t too difficult.

Head to the nearest ETSECA office — there’s usually one right next to the Wi-Fi hotspot — and purchase one of the Nauta scratch-off internet cards for $2.

Like everything else in Cuba, be prepared to wait. I would recommend buying a few at a time. Whether the queue is long or short, the process is excruciatingly slow (minimum: 30 minutes to an hour).

Once you have the card, scratch off the login and password on the back and join the nearest Wi-Fi network.

Sears announced a second wave of store closures on Wednesday, bringing the total number of closures slated for early 2017 to 150.

These are the closure's from the company's Wednesday announcement.

Here's a list of Kmart stores that are closing:

• Jasper Mall, Jasper, Alabama
• 2003 US-280, Phenix City, Alabama
• 3600 Wilson Rd, Bakersfield, California
• 3001 Iowa Ave., Riverside, California
• 25 West Polk Street, Coalinga, California
• 333 Sierra Street, Kingsburg, California
• 363 S Broadway, Denver, Colorado
• 2809 North Ave, Grand Junction, Colorado
• 45 Shunpike Road, Cromwell, Connecticut
• 1801 NW US Hwy 19, Crystal River, Florida
• 501 N. Beneva Road, Sarasota, Florida
• 19400 Cochran Blvd., Port Charlotte, Florida
• 2111 S. Federal Highway, Ft. Pierce, Florida
• 1501 Normandy Village Parkway, Jacksonville, Florida
• 2211 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, Kissimmee, Florida
• 4955 Golden Gate Parkway, Naples, Florida
• 111 Town and Country Dr., Palatka, Florida
• McGregor Point Shopping Center, Fort Myers, Florida
• 33 W. Montgomery Cross Road, Savannah, Georgia
• 3200 Macon Road, Columbus, Georgia
• 365 Habersham Village Circle, Cornelia, Georgia
• 1601 Highway 40, East Kingsland, Georgia
• 4561 Salt Lake Blvd, Honolulu, Hawaii
• 2600 Dodge Street, Dubuque, Iowa
• 5700 Gordon Drive, Sioux City, Iowa
• 3810 University Avenue, Waterloo, Iowa
• 2851 Belt Line Parkway, Alton, Illinois
• 3655 Nameoki Road, Granite City, Illinois
• 750 Indian Boundary Road, Chesterton, Indiana
• 1460 West State Road 2, La Porte, Indiana
• 4820 S 4th St, Leavenworth, Kansas
• rt 4200 W Kellogg Dr, Wichita, Kansas
• 191 Outer Loop, Louisville, Kentucky
• 2815 West Parrish Ave., Owensboro, Kentucky
• 1501 Paris Pike, Georgetown, Kentucky
• 14662 N. US Highway 25 E, Corbin, Kentucky
• 1710 W. Highway 192, London, Kentucky
• 3010 Fort Campbell Blvd., Hopkinsville, Kentucky
• 2945 Scottsville Road, Bowling Green, Kentucky
• 115 South Airline Hwy, Gonzales, Louisiana
• 1400 S Clearview Parkway, New Orleans, Louisiana
• 688 Hogan Road, Bangor, Maine
• 222 North Point Blvd, Baltimore, Maryland
• 1130 Newport Ave, South Attleboro, Massachusetts
• 9 Plaza Way, Fairhaven, Massachusetts
• 29600 Ford Road, Garden City, Michigan
• 3555 O'Neill Drive, Jackson, Michigan
• 1396 South Main Street, Adrian, Michigan
• 5400 S Cedar Street, Lansing, Michigan
• 1501 E Apple Ave, Muskegon, Michigan
•  40855 Ann Arbor Road, Plymouth, Michigan
• 17580 Frazho Road, Roseville, Michigan
• 3541 Highland Road Waterford, Michigan
• 6455 US 31 N Acme Township, Michigan
• 1305 Highway 10 West Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
• 1477 State Highway 248 Branson, Missouri
• 2304 Missouri Blvd Jefferson City, Missouri
• 1003 S Bishop Ave Rolla, Missouri
• 3101 S Glenstone Ave Springfield, Missouri
• 6650 Manchester Ave St Louis, Missouri
• Rio Mall, Rio Grande, New Jersey
• 1468 Clementon Road Clementon, New Jersey
• 645 Highway 18 East Brunswick, New Jersey
• 800 Black Horse Pike Pleasantville, New Jersey
• 4645 Commercial Dr., New Hartford, New York
• 10405 S Eastern Ave Henderson, Nevada
• 545 Concord Pkwy N, Concord, North Carolina
• 1931 Skibo Road, Fayetteville, North Carolina
• 201 N Berkeley Blvd Goldsboro, North Carolina
• 102 New Market Madison, North Carolina 
• 815 S College Road Wilmington, North Carolina
• 1500 Coshocton Ave Mount Vernon, Ohio
• 185 Upper River Road Gallipolis, Ohio
• 1005 East Columbus St Kenton, Ohio
• 225 West Avenue New Boston, Ohio
• I-70 & Mall Road St. Clairsville, Ohio
• 3515 N Maple Avenue Zanesville, Ohio
• 1284 Brice Road, Reynoldsburg, Ohio
• 4 East Shawnee St Muskogee, Oklahoma
• 5820 Shaffer Road Dubois, Pennsylvania
• 1320 E Grandview Blvd Erie, Pennsylvania
• 1890 Fruitville Pike Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• 5600 Carlisle Pike US 11 Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
• 120 Mall Blvd Monroeville, Pennsylvania
• 100 Cross Roads Plz Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania
• 3801 Clemson Blvd., Anderson, South Carolina
• 254 Highway 72 By-Pass Greenwood, South Carolina
• 8571 Rivers Avenue North Charleston, South Carolina
• 3020 W 12th St Sioux Falls , South Dakota
• 305 W Economy Road Morristown, Tennessee
• 1120 McRae Blvd El Paso, Texas
• 9484 Dyer St El Paso, Texas
• 1101 Fort Hood Street Killeen, Texas
• 3061 S John Redditt Dr Lufkin, Texas
• 1153 W Highway 40 Vernal, Utah
• 2010 N Main St Layton, Utah
• 1419 Hershberger Road NW Roanoke, Virginia
• 3655 Plank Road Fredericksburg, Virginia
• 6101 N Military Hwy Norfolk, Virginia
• 1355 West Main Street Salem, Virginia
• 5132 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, Washington
• 250 Three Springs Dr., Weirton, West Virginia
• 731 Beverly Pike, Elkins, West Virginia
• 1050 Division St., Parkersburg, West Virginia
• 1425 E Highway 151 Platteville, Wisconsin
• 2211 S Green Bay Road Racine, Wisconsin
• 1840 Dell Range Blvd Cheyenne, Wyoming

And here's a list of Sears stores that are closing:

• Florence Mall, Florence, Alabama
• 1901 S Caraway Rd., Jonesboro, Arkansas
• Enfield Square, Enfield, Connecticut
• Eagle Ridge Mall, Lake Wales, Florida
• Albany Mall, Albany, Georgia
• Columbus Park Crossing, Columbus, Georgia
• 1235 S Reed Road, Kokomo, Indiana
• 2259 S 9th St, Salina, Kansas
• Kentucky Oaks Mall, Paducah, Kentucky
• 9001 Cortana Mall, Baton Rouge/ Cortana, Louisiana
• 197 Westbank Expressway, Gretna, Louisiana
• 9605 Queens Blvd., Rego Park, New York
• Walden Galleria, Cheektowaga, New York
• Boulevard Mall, Amherst, New York
• 1 Galleria Dr., Middletown, New York
• 10 Whitten Rd., Augusta, Maine
• Swansea Mall, Swansea, Massachusetts
• 3099 28th St SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan
• 12737 Riverdale Blvd NW, Coon Rapids, Minnesota
• 1850 Adams St, Mankato, Minnesota
• 3600 Country Club Dr, Jefferson Cty, Missouri
• 3702 Frederick Ave, Saint Joseph, Missouri
• 3902 13th Ave, South Fargo, North Dakota
• 1000 S Main St, Roswell, New Mexico
• 2000 Brittain Road, Akron, Ohio
• 1075 N Bridge St, Chillicothe, Ohio 
• 1701 River Valley Circle S, Lancaster, Ohio
• Richmond Mall, Richmond Heights, Ohio
• 1901 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, Oklahoma
• 428 SW C Ave, Lawton, Oklahoma
• Shenango Valley Mall, Hermitage, Pennsylvania
• 1 Susquehanna Valley Mall Dr, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
• 1500 Mall Run Road, Uniontown, Pennsylvania
• 3595 Capital City Mall, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
• 1500 Diamond Hill Road, Woonsocket, Rhode Island
• 2701 David H Mcleod Blvd, Florence, South Carolina
• 2101 Fort Henry Dr, Kingsport, Tennessee
• 4101 E 42nd St, Odessa, Texas
• 500 Gate City Hwy, Bristol, Virginia
• Alderwood Mall, Lynnwood, Washington
• Town Center Mall, Charleston, West Virginia
• Meadowbrook Mall, Bridgeport, West Virginia

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In the days after Donald Trump was elected president, people packed Planned Parenthood's offices across the country in emergency meetings to figure out what to do next.

Republicans will soon control all three branches of government, and they are poised to make sweeping changes to Americans' everyday lives, particularly affecting women's health care.

Since the election, over 315,000 people have donated to Planned Parenthood — 82,000 in Vice President-elect Mike Pence's name so he would receive a personal notification each time.

And women have raced to get IUD birth control that could outlast Trump's term as president.

The GOP party platform outlines its firm stance against abortion, Trump has said he wants to appoint Supreme Court justices to overturn women's constitutional right to abortion under Roe v. Wade, and Pence has enacted some of the strictest legislation against abortion in the country as the governor of Indiana.

Now that the new Congress is in session, Planned Parenthood is gearing up for a fight.

The organization announced Thursday that it is launching a national campaign for people to show their support for the nation's largest reproductive health care provider, with 300 events planned across 47 states and 150 cities in the coming weeks, ranging from rallies and phone banks, to meetings with legislators.

Kelley Robinson, the deputy national organizing director for Planned Parenthood who's leading the effort, said they are "ready for the fight."

"No matter what happens in this political landscape, we're always going to be there taking care of our folks, taking care of our patients and the communities that we serve. That's what we stand for," Robinson told Business Insider. "I think in moments like this, in times of challenge and crisis, we lean back into who we are — quality health care providers and members of our communities."

What they're fighting for

The campaign is focusing on keeping Republicans in Congress from gutting the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and from passing legislation to "defund" Planned Parenthood. The Obamacare battle on the Hill began the day the new Congress took over, with Republicans making their case for repealing and replacing the ACA, and Democrats arguing to save it.

If Republicans scrap the law, 47 million women would lose the guaranteed access to birth control without a co-pay that Obamacare provides.

While politicians have popularized the term "defunding" when talking about stripping federal funds for Planned Parenthood, the group's political communications director, Erica Sackin, explained why this is misleading.

"There's no line item in the budget for Planned Parenthood. We're not funded through the federal budget bill," Sackin told Business Insider.

Planned Parenthood health centers serve 2.5 million people each year, nearly two-thirds of whom rely on public programs like Medicaid to pay for their care. When lawmakers pass bills to "defund" the organization, (as many states have), those patients then have to pay for health care at Planned Parenthood out of pocket.

But the Hyde Amendment already makes it illegal to use Medicaid to pay for an abortion except in the case of rape, incest, or if the mother's health is endangered.

So while it may seem like "defunding" Planned Parenthood is a way to prevent abortions, Robinson said, "all that is is code for blocking people's access to getting the care that they need," like mammograms and cervical cancer screenings.

Despite the long fight ahead, Robinson said she feels hopeful that Planned Parenthood will ultimately win.

"The work that we've done over the last few years to build our grassroots power has been in service of being able to provide health care to people who need it," she said. "Elections are nothing but a bump in the road. The work that we're doing at Planned Parenthood and the power that we've built is going to last longer — no matter who's in office at any level."

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Want to start 2017 off right — meaning without a crash-diet or a detox?

There are plenty of things you can start doing now to set yourself up for a healthier New Year.

Sure, you're probably not going to wake up looking like an underwear model tomorrow — but you can certainly start feeling better and improving your digestion in a week, according to registered dietitian and nutritionist Andy Bellatti.

Here are a few things Bellatti and other nutritionists recommend.

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DO: Drink lots of water.

Water is essential — it regulates the shape of every cell inside our bodies. If we don't get enough, in fact, these cells begin to shrivel up.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends choosing water instead of sugar-sweetened beverages to "help with weight management." Swapping a cold glass of H2O for a single 20-ounce soda will save you about 240 calories.

So hydrate, Bellatti told Business Insider. "Ideally with water." Not a fan of the absence of flavor? He suggests spicing it up with a few slices of lemon, lime, or cucumber.

DON'T: Drink only water — or any other beverage.

If you're considering a "detox" or "juice cleanse," you might want to reconsider. Drinking just water, juice, or any other liquefied concoction for more than a few days can set you up for unhealthy eating behaviors, and can often lead to unhealthy spikes and drops in blood sugar levels, which can spawn cravings and mood swings.

"This is a recipe for 'hangriness,'" says Bellatti, "that also inaccurately paints all solid food as problematic."

DO: Cut back on sodium.

Most of us — 89% of adults, according to the CDC— eat too much sodium, band that's not including any salt added at the table.

While salt intake remains a hotly debated health topic, eating too much of it is linked with puffiness and bloating, according to Harvard Health. Depending on your diet, cutting back on sodium can be an easy ways to start feeling better.

"Sodium retains water," says Bellatti, "so lowering sodium intake also reduces puffiness."

The way we think about diets is undergoing an important shift.

We thinking less about diets as being for rapid weight loss and more about for creating lifestyle changes that stick.

To help people sift through the noise and find science-backed plans that work for years rather than weeks, US News & World Report ranked 38 eating plans.

The rankings considered different criteria including how easy the diet is to follow, its effects on weight loss — both in the short and long term — how nutritional and safe the diet is, and how well it helps prevent diabetes and heart disease.

For the seventh time in a row, it named the DASH diet its No. 1 choice.

DASH stands for dietary approaches to stop hypertension, or high blood pressure. While the diet focuses on a meal plan that helps lower or prevent high blood pressure, it is a diet for everyone.

In fact, the US Department of Agriculture considers it one of the best examples of a healthy eating pattern.

"The DASH diet is really a safe plan for everyone," Angela Haupt, assistant managing editor of health at US News & World Report, told Business Insider in 2016. "There's nothing exciting about it, and that's what makes it a good plan. It's not some fad diet making outlandish claims that you can't rely on."

And for people with abnormally high blood pressure, the DASH diet may, over time, help drop that blood pressure by as many as eight to 14 points.

How to DASH your diet

The distinguishing factor of the DASH diet is that it limits how much sodium you eat.

Since many frozen and prepackaged foods contain large amounts of salt, DASH dieters stick to fresh produce and lean proteins like fish and poultry.

The diet also includes a lot of whole grains, low-fat dairy products, and legumes.

The typical day on a 2,000-calorie DASH diet looks like this:

• No more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium, eventually working down to no more than 1,500 milligrams. (For reference, a single slice of pizza contains about 640 milligrams of sodium.)
• 6-8 servings of grains
• 4-5 servings each of veggies and fruits
• 2-3 servings of fat-free or low-fat dairy. (Plain dairy products are much lower in sugar than flavored.)
• 6 or fewer servings (equal to about one ounce) of lean meat, poultry, and fish
• 4-5 servings (per week) of nuts, seeds, and legumes
• 2-3 servings of fats and oils
• No more than 1-2 alcoholic drinks. (A serving is equal to 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1 1/2 ounces of liquor.)
• 5 or fewer servings (per week) of sweets

For example, you could have an omelet with veggies and reduced-fat cheese for breakfast, minestrone soup for lunch, low-fat yogurt as a snack, and spaghetti squash with meat sauce for dinner.

With all the fiber-packed fruits and veggies in the DASH diet, you won't go hungry.

But diet isn't everything

Generally, if you want to shed some excess pounds you'll likely need to incorporate exercise into your regular routine, even if you're on one of the best science-backed diets. That's a component, along with price, that isn't factored into US News & World Report's rankings.

In one 2010 study, researchers assigned 144 overweight adults to one of three diets: the DASH diet, the DASH diet plus exercise, and a control diet in which the participant maintained their typical eating habits.

At the end of four months, those on the DASH plus exercise diet lost an average of 19 pounds. The other two groups lost little to no weight.

Getting started

Despite its benefits — healthy eating, controlling hypertension, and weight loss, to name a few — DASH can be difficult to adopt at first, which is why the US News & World Report says it's OK to ease into the diet.

"It does take willpower to stick to that [diet] and cut out things you like," Haupt said. "Red meat, sugar, salt — these are big parts of most people's diets, and if you've been accustomed to eat those things for so long, then making the changes and sticking to them will definitely take willpower."

Another potential downside to the diet is the time it takes to prepare fresh food for meals.

"Maybe if you're really crunched for time and you're not into cooking at all, then maybe this diet isn't the right diet for you," Haupt said.

She added that a couple of the other top-10 diets in this year's report, like Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig, either include premade foods you can pick up at the store or have delivered to you, which might better accommodate people who want to diet on the go.

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For many, the arrival of snow means it's time to hit the slopes. And now that winter is undoubtedly underway, we're rounding up the best places to celebrate the season.

Wanderbat, a travel data site by Graphiq, compiled a list of the 20 best ski resorts in America.

To determine the ranking, Wanderbat used a rating system that compares resorts based on mountain size, terrain, snowfall, and the magazine awards each has won. 

Colorado and Utah dominate the list with a combined 14 of the top 20 resorts, followed by three in California, one in Wyoming, and two in Montana.

Scroll through to find out what makes these mountain resorts some of the best winter destinations in the country.

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20. Since opening in Utah in 1939, Alta Ski Resort has become a famed spot for high-altitude skiers (no snowboarders allowed). Located at the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon just 25 miles from Salt Lake City, the resort combines traditional and modern amenities for the best in deep snow and terrain skiing.

Source: Alta

19. Located about 30 miles away from Glacier National Park in Montana, Whitefish Mountain Resort boasts 105 trails and 3,000 acres of skiable terrain. An average annual snowfall of 300 inches means you'll likely never be short on terrain to enjoy.

Source: Whitefish Mountain Resort

18. Along the east side of the Sierra Nevada, Mammoth Mountain offers up the best and biggest snow recreation area in California. The mountain itself boasts 28 lifts, 151 runs, and 3,500 skiable acres.

Source: Mammoth Mountain

Although fewer young people are getting married today than ever before, research suggests that getting and staying married is one of the best things you can do for yourself.

As the New York Times concluded, "being married makes people happier and more satisfied with their lives than those who remain single — particularly during the most stressful periods, like midlife crises."

Drake Baer contributed to this story.

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A 2014 University of Pennsylvania study found that Americans who cohabitate or get married at age 18 have a 60% divorce rate. 

But people who waited until 23 to make either of those commitments had a divorce rate around 30%.

"All of the literature explained that the reason people who married younger were more likely to divorce was because they were not mature enough to pick appropriate partners," the Atlantic reports.

The honeymoon phase with its "high levels of passionate love" and "intense feelings of attraction and ecstasy, as well as an idealization of one's partner," doesn't last forever. 

According to a 2005 study by the University of Pavia in Italy, it lasts about a year. 

Once you start living together, you realize that you have different priorities and tolerances — like, for instance, what does or doesn't constitute a mess. 

"People have to come to terms with the reality that 'we really are different people,'" says couples therapist Ellyn Bader. "'You are different from who I thought you were or wanted you to be. We have different ideas, different feelings, different interests.'"

It's a stressful — and necessary — evolution. 

Each year, The New York Times puts out a call for college admissions essays to the newest class of applicants.

In 2016, it chose four of the most poignant essays that cut across issues of money, work, and social class. The Times published them on its site to showcase the essays' raw and honest power.

One of the essays comes from Erica Meister, a senior at Northville High School in Northville, Michigan. In it, she unsparingly critiques her hometown, which was awarded the title of "the snobbiest city in Michigan."

"We're from Northville," she wrote of herself and fellow classmates. "Most of us know nothing of consequences or responsibility for our actions, because our fathers can cover for us with cash and connections."

These actions often include selling weed and Adderall, Meister wrote.

The piece reads like a searing referendum on how extreme wealth begets thoughtlessness. She describes a situation in which cultural appropriation and emulation of hip-hop artists is common, but programs that assist economically disadvantaged people are belittled.

For example, Meister writes:

"Several years back, when the rap aesthetic was particularly prominent, most of the males came to school in ill-fitting jeans that sagged below their designer boxers, sporting T-shirts and necklaces that likely cost more than the weekly income for the average person, in imitation of their favorite rapper. They carried themselves like Eminem and spewed out Jay Z verses about being raised in extreme urban poverty and racism, before parroting their parents' views on the 'communist' welfare programs."

Even The Times, which receives hundreds of admissions essay submissions every year, said Meister's piece was the most candid it has ever received.

"Every year, we receive at least one essay that picks apart an affluent suburb, but we've never seen one quite as blunt as her take on Northville, Mich.," wrote Ron Lieber, a Times columnist.

But the essay also exposes Meister's own instances of falling victim to thoughtlessness.

She describes asking a friend whose family she knew was struggling financially what AP exams she was planning to take. The exams, which students can voluntarily take to potentially strengthen college applications, cost $93 each. Meister's friend responded that she couldn't afford any.

"I found myself victim to the disease that infiltrates Northville, the same carelessness I despise," she wrote.

Northville, Michigan, is a suburb of Detroit. The website RoadSnacks.net, which rated it the snobbiest city in Michigan, ranked Northville No. 1 because it "combines unparalleled wealth (the highest median household income in Michigan) with expensive homes (second-highest in Michigan) to create an enclave of snobbery."

The gulf between the income levels in Northville versus Detroit is stark. The median household income in Northville is $95,478, according to 2015 government data. For Detroit, the figure is $25,764.

Meister, who now attends Stanford University, concluded her essay by saying she's eager to leave behind Northville and become more conscious and curious about life beyond her suburban bubble.

To be sure, the essay wasn't the only arrow in her quiver. Meister broke a national record when she scaled a 15-meter rock wall in 9.56 seconds. She was also a member of the National Honor Society and maintained a 3.9 GPA.

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Life is good for Evan Spiegel.

His company, Snap Inc., is preparing for one of the most hotly anticipated initial public offerings of 2017 at a valuation of about $20 billion. The Snapchat app is beloved by teens everywhere, and Snap's recently released Spectacles glasses are one of the most sought-after gadgets.

And with an estimated net worth of $2.1 billion, Spiegel, 26, is the youngest self-made billionaire in the world, according to Forbes.

He lives a charmed life and he knows it.

"I am a young, white, educated male," he once said at a Stanford business conference. "I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair."

We've pulled the highlights of Spiegel's spectacular life and career from profiles by LA Weekly, Forbes, Business Insider, court documents, and more.

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Spiegel grew up in the Pacific Palisades, a ritzy Los Angeles enclave just east of Malibu. He is the oldest son of two Ivy League-educated attorneys. His parents divorced when he was in high school.

When Spiegel turned 16 and got his driver's license, he was given a Cadillac Escalade, which he parked in the gated Southern California Edison parking lot next to his school. Spiegel's father represented Edison during the energy crisis.

Source: LA Weekly

Spiegel spent his early years at an ultra-exclusive school called Crossroads in Santa Monica, which costs tens of thousands per academic year. Other notable alumni include Tinder cofounder Sean Rad, Kate Hudson, Jonah Hill, Jack Black, and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Business Insider recently released its annual ranking of the 50 best colleges in America, emphasizing metrics like graduation rate, student-life experience, and post-graduation salary. 

Our top 25 schools feature a lot of familiar institutions — Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, and MIT all make the cut. But of the best schools in the country, whose graduates earn the most money after getting established in their careers?

To find out, Business Insider reranked its top 25 colleges by median graduate salary 10 years after enrolling, using data from the Department of Education's College Scorecard.

MIT, the sixth best college in America, grabbed the top spot — its graduates command a median salary of $91,600 a decade after enrolling.

Keep reading to find out how much people earn 10 years after enrolling in the top 25 colleges in America.

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25. Bowdoin College

Location: Brunswick, Maine

Median salary 10 years after enrolling: $54,800

Ranked 21st best college in America. 

At Bowdoin College, the second-ranked liberal-arts school on our list, first-year students can choose from 35 first-year seminars and are required to take a course in each of five general subject areas. As for postgraduation, Bowdoin's 1,500-member alumni Career Advisory Network helps prepare students for their future careers.

24. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Median salary 10 years after enrolling: $57,900

Ranked 12th best college in America. 

Known for a stellar undergraduate business school, the University of Michigan counts business, psychology, and economics as its most popular majors. UM also reports that about half of all students who received a bachelor's degree go on to pursue a master's within four years of graduation. The school's notable alumni include New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Google cofounder Larry Page.

23. University of Virginia

Location: Charlottesville, Virginia

Median salary 10 years after enrolling: $58,600

Ranked ninth best college in America. 

The highest-ranked public school on our list, the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819. UVA first-year students can choose from four undergraduate schools: arts and sciences, architecture, engineering, or nursing. UVA also has a "work hard, play hard" mentality. The university boasts more than 600 student clubs and 25 varsity sports.

For beginners, the world of watches can be a mysterious and intimidating place.

But before you even start wading through the millions of quality watches for sale today, the first hurdle is knowing what you're talking about. Let us help with that.

We've rounded up 15 of the most common watch-specific terms. If you're looking to build a watch collection, we recommend bookmarking this.

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