BI Today: Fiber > Protein

Happy Saturday! Trying to pick a diet for 2025? Sometimes, it’s best to keep it simple. That’s what Jennifer Aniston does with her 80/20 rule, which is about eating healthy most of the time with some room for leniency.

On the agenda:

But first: Throw it away. Seriously.

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This week’s dispatch

The art of decluttering

It’s my favorite time of year: After Santa drops off all his presents, my house is no longer recognizable — but I have a plan for that. It’s time to harness my inner Marie Kondo and attempt to reorganize my home.

Before the holidays, I had already started intentionally throwing away items I hadn’t used for months. Even the kids’ toy basket (OK, fine, baskets) was touched by my decluttering bug. If anything was broken, it went into the trash bag. Don’t worry; my 2- and 5-year-old didn’t shed a tear.

I’m now moving my way from forgotten closet to forgotten closet, finding things I need and throwing away things that are no longer useful to me and my family.

Even though millennials have a reputation for being minimalists, the truth is we’ve also bought into the consumerism that makes America what it is, writes journalist Kelli María Korducki. “Millennials haven’t been minimalists in years. In fact, we may have never been minimalists at all,” she says.

For some, decluttering their physical space may not be enough; their digital lives may also need some tidying up. That’s what writer Theresa Sam Houghton did after she realized bookmarking apps and unplayed podcast episodes were clogging up her smartphone. She writes that she’s now “developed a weekly routine that helps me reign in digital clutter on a regular basis.”

Are you convinced yet? If not, read this to see how decluttering helped one couple eliminate clutter and $32,000 worth of credit-card debt.

Billionaires’ busy social calendar

The billionaire population is sparse, but birds of a feather tend to flock their private jets together. That is, you can typically find them all in the same place.

At the beginning of the year, they descend en masse to Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. In February, you can spot them at the Super Bowl. Every July they head to a small town in Idaho for the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, also known as billionaire summer camp.

Where the wealthy mingle.

Netflix on top

If the streamer’s success at the Golden Globes is any indication, 2025 could be the year that Netflix finally wins best picture at the Academy Awards. But it doesn’t need to.

After spending millions of dollars on best picture campaigns in past years, Netflix has cemented its place in Hollywood as the definitive leader in the streaming wars. With its attention in other areas — like its live sports push — a best picture nod for “Emilia Perez” would be a nice addition, but not a necessary one.

The Oscars extra credit.

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You probably aren’t eating enough fiber

Grocery stores are filling shelves with high-protein versions of food, but top nutrition scientist Tim Spector said people who want to improve their diet should focus on consuming more fiber than protein. It’s great for gut health and can ease constipation, among many other things.

The US Department of Agriculture’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans for 2020 to 2025 found that more than 90% of women and 97% of men in the US don’t meet the recommended intake of dietary fiber. Spector shared tips for eating enough fiber while also hitting your daily protein target.

More fiber, please.

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Everyone is suddenly obsessed with optimizing childbirth

When scrolling through social media as a pregnant person, you’re often inundated with a million ways you can make the most of the birth experience. Plus, there’s a growing industry of birthing influencers marketing their preferred birthing styles — from natural to ecstatic births — through sponsored posts, consulting services, and online courses.

While much of the talk centered on optimizing birth is well-meaning, how we give birth — or rather, how we think we’ll give birth — has become the latest way we define, and judge, ourselves as parents.

The ‘good birth’ myth.

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What we’re watching this weekend

• “The Traitors”: Season 3 of the Emmy-winning competition series premieres on Peacock this week, with Britney Spears’ ex-husband, Zac Efron’s brother, and a former “Bachelorette” star among the new cast.
• “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace”: Max is now streaming the final chapter of the ID docuseries about a Ukrainian orphan whose adoptive parents accused her of being an adult secretly posing as a child.
• “American Primeval”: “Friday Night Lights” star Taylor Kitsch is a standout in Netflix’s answer to “Yellowstone,” a bloody and violent new drama set in the early days of the American West.

See the full list

What to shop

• Beat the cold: There’s nothing like a bone-chilling gust of wind to remind you that your jacket needs replacing. Check out our guides to the best men’s parkas for extreme cold and the best winter coats and jackets for men.
• Skill building: Get a leg up at work and learn new skills with a Coursera Plus annual subscription, which is 50% off right now. The deal offers access to thousands of classes from verified providers like Google, Microsoft, and IBM.
• RTO, but make it comfy: Just because you’re back in the office doesn’t mean you have to be uncomfortable. These are our favorite stretchy work pants for women that feel like sweatpants but look professional.

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The BI Today team: Dan DeFrancesco, deputy editor and anchor, in New York City. Grace Lett, editor, in New York. Lisa Ryan, executive editor, in New York. Amanda Yen, associate editor, in New York.