diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 462f0ca..2d45a13 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [2.1.0] - 2016-06-10
+### Added
+- Automatically add Content-Type: application/json when there is a request body
+
 ## [2.0.0] - 2016-06-03
 ### Changed
 - Made the Request and Response variables non-redundant. e.g. request.RequestBody becomes request.Body
diff --git a/examples/example.go b/examples/example.go
index dcbf965..404c191 100644
--- a/examples/example.go
+++ b/examples/example.go
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ func main() {
 	// Build the request headers
 	key := os.Getenv("SENDGRID_API_KEY")
 	Headers := make(map[string]string)
-	Headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
 	Headers["Authorization"] = "Bearer " + key
 
 	// GET Collection
@@ -155,7 +154,6 @@ func main() {
 		BaseURL:     baseURL + "/" + apiKey,
 		Headers:     Headers,
 		QueryParams: queryParams,
-		Body:        Body,
 	}
 	response, err = rest.API(request)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/rest.go b/rest.go
index ae8a514..d8aef1b 100644
--- a/rest.go
+++ b/rest.go
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ func BuildRequestObject(request Request) (*http.Request, error) {
 	for key, value := range request.Headers {
 		req.Header.Set(key, value)
 	}
+	if len(request.Body) > 0 {
+		req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+	}
 	return req, err
 }