The holiday season does not need to be the weight-gain season. Or the unhealthy, eat-until-I-pass-out season (or the flu season, and, yes, it is all related. But that’s for another article.) Your Thanksgiving dinner can be a wonderful, tasty, nutritious feast that is also easy to digest and won’t cost you a single pant or dress size. Here are a few options to help you this Thanksgiving: Read More…
Ahhh, Turkey Day…or was it Harvest Day? Unless you were there in 1621 when the first supposed unofficial Thanksgiving feast (and this date is also debatable) took place, and we seriously doubt you were (but if you were, what’s your secret? You look FAB!), nobody knows if there was ever even a turkey served as part of this important colonial meal. In fact, if you do your digging about this now annual North American holiday, you’ll find that Thanksgiving was not “turkey day” as it is marketed in the United States today. In fact, Thanksgiving, was AN AUTUMN HARVEST FEAST celebrating the collaboration of the Native Americans with the Plymouth colonists to finally successfully grow corn and learn how to work other crops in the new land. Yes, Thanksgiving was a veggie day. Read More…
