Avoid Weight Gain During The Holidays – 5 Easy Tips

If you’re worried about gaining weight over the holidays you’re not alone.
The average North American gains 7 to 12 pounds over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Follow these simple holiday diet tips and tricks and you’ll avoid the holiday weight gain that afflicts so many other people:
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Alone for the Holidays?

Being alone is a challenge for many people. This challenge may loom especially large during the holidays if you are single or newly divorced and without family around you. Holidays are a time to share love, and many people end up feeling depressed when they do not have people around with whom to share love. [...]

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A Lesson on Halloween

Halloween never has been my favorite holiday. As a kid, growing up on the farm, trick-or-treating meant getting in and out of the car (often on very cold nights) and wearing coats over our costumes. I certainly liked the candy, but it never made much sense to me.
As a father, I must admit I have [...]

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10 Facts You Might Not Know About St. Patrick’s Day

The tradition of St. Patrick’s Day began hundreds of years ago when a boy in Roman England was captured and taken to Ireland as a captive where he found God. It is said that St. Patrick could hear from the angels, and that he had raised people from the dead. He was a [...]

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