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24 nifty tips to make 2024 even brighter

Surprising and creative ways to help boost your health and happiness in the new year.
Source: Becky Harlan/NPR

At Life Kit, our job is to get great advice from health, lifestyle, finance and relationship experts and share them with our audience. Naturally, your producers and editors are going to have some favorite pearls of wisdom.

Here are 24 helpful tips from our episodes that we loved and really stuck with us this past year. They include practical guidance (like wear sunscreen and eat more fiber!) and a few surprising ones too (treat bread like dessert and use your washing machine's express cycle!). We hope they'll help you save money and time and boost your health and happiness this year.

For more fresh ideas on how to improve your life in 2024, check out our New Year's Resolution Planner.

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