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"If they occur in conjunction with holidays and special events, they may be times when efforts to collect dietary information are curtailed in the knowledge that they are not reflective of customary behavior. However, if these episodes lead to gains that are not fully offset by subsequent losses, they, too, could lead to apparent incremental weight gain. Indeed, there is evidence supporting this pattern. In one trial, 195 adults were weighed four times at intervals of 6 to 8 weeks before, during, and following the winter holidays as well as approximately 1 year from the first weighing [6]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Healthy holidays for people who are sugar sensitive take careful planning and require loving support. If you don't think holidays through ahead of time, you will either slip off your food plan or feel a huge sense of frustration, regret and remorse when you are left out of traditions that have meant a lot to you. Prepare for the first holiday after designing your food plan very carefully. Practice the expected rituals. If birthday cakes are a big part of your family tradition, plan a way to get a sugar-free cake with whole grains." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"Going on holidays or changing your habits temporarily can bring you in contact with allergens, or just create stress, and may precipitate an attack requiring treatment. When asthma medication is inhaled it travels straight to the irritated air passages and eases the distress. However, the principles and techniques suggested in Part Two of this book are designed to do what medication does in preventing asthma or relieving a mild attack. That does not mean an asthmatic should not take prescribed medication." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"When I would visit from my out-of-state job on holidays or special occasions, I'd always set a full day aside to take Grandpa anywhere he wanted to go. It was our day together, and I'd ask him again and again, "Grandpa, where would you like to spend the day?" I always followed up my question with a list of beautiful restaurants and cafes, all of which were close to his home in the city. While he would listen carefully, and actually mulled over each option in his mind, his answer would always be the same, and I knew what it would be: "Wendy's." A trip to Wendy's was an all-day affair." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Last time I saw her, we had missed the previous few weeks because of holidays and the like. She told me that she missed me but that she didn't feel dependent on me. That's when I knew things were working. It was not so much that I had been so great—like it wasn't about me— but that she had learned the skills on her own." "And what was her last score on the depression inventory?" I ask. Lisa goes to look through the chart. "Four," she says. "That's subclinical." No doubt Dr. Fenton chose a particularly winning example of a CBT treatment for me to hear." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Next, Roseanna and her husband came to see me when they were visiting for the holidays. Both Roseanna and Kyle had severe vitamin D deficiency; their levels were 18, and their PTH levels were elevated. Fortunately, they began vitamin D supplementation and were able to eliminate their seasonal depression, year-round fatigue, and muscle aches. I've seen numerous people who have seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which the U.S." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot? The number of seeds Torah—613! What's the Story? The name "pomegranate" is a combined form of the latin words pomum, meaning "apple," and granatum, meaning "grainy" or "seeded." There are about fourteen varieties of pomegranate that are consumed throughout the world. "Wonderful" is the best known variety in the United States. Other popular varieties include "Grenada," "Early Foothill," and "Early Wonderful." A Serving of Food Lore... Pomegranates are one of the oldest known fruits and are thought to have originated in Iran and northern India." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"We've probably all experienced putting on a few extra pounds, especially around the holidays. This is usually a benign sign of lack of restraint around the buffet table. But sudden weight gain can also signal some serious and not-so-serious systemic problems. Putting on weight in a matter of a day or two can be due to fluid retention (edema). Many women notice that both their breasts and bellies bloat as they retain water just before , . i r. £i j SIGN OF THE TIMES their periods. But fluid retention can also signal heart failure, the inability of the heart to pump efficiently." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"After another exhausting summer, the holidays came. Theoretically. But there was no way to have a holiday in the Avram home. At Halloween, Paul-almost three now-was completely oblivious to the costumes and candy. Kids would come to the door and he wouldn't even look up, so Lynne turned off the lights. Thanksgiving dinner, of course, was completely impossible with Paul in the house, and at Christmas Paul just tore open everyone's packages, with no interest whatsoever in l ne v^niiaren / their contents. Normal activities ceased. Bike rides? Not possible. The movies? No way. The mall?" - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Here, for example, is what the Tops Market at the Pyramid Mall in Ithaca looked like just before the Christmas holidays in 2004. holidays or not, this store shelves candy in sections twenty to thirty feet long in three different aisles, as well as in special displays at the ends of aisles, at the store entrance, and at every checkout counter. In this one medium-size market, an inventory of shelf space devoted to sugary foods —just in the center aisles —produces the list summarized in the Table on the next page." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"It's social, it's business, it's holidays and special occasions, it's convenience, it's vacation, it's spiritual, and of course it's your sustenance, too. Because of all these varied issues that both enhance and complicate the practice of eating, you can at times feel at risk of diet derailment. When restaurant portions are huge, party fare is high-calorie, and you're constantly surrounded by temptations to abandon your efforts, you can sometimes feel like you must make a choice between being lean and healthy or having a social life." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"The experiments took into account the days of the week, holidays, and even lunar cycles; and the data was so consistent that the researchers were able to identify how many people are needed to share the experience of peace before it's mirrored in their world. The number is the square root of one percent of the population. This formula produces figures that are smaller than we might expect. For example, in a city of one million people, the number is about 100. In a world of 6 billion, it's just under 8,000. This calculation represents only the minimum needed to begin the process." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"MOST FREQUENTLY CONSUMED RAW VEGETABLES Asparagus F Bell pepper F (some stores) Broccoli F Carrots LL Cauliflower F Celery Cucumber Green cabbage Green onions Green snap beans F Iceberg lettuce Leaf lettuce Mushrooms F (some stores) Onions F (some stores) Potatoes Tl Radishes Summer squash Sweet corn F Sweet potatoes Tomato Source: Federal Register, March 20, 2002 Industry statistics show frozen vegetable sales peak between November and April, but highest sales are during the three holidays that fall within these months—Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Halloween and other holidays are devoted to celebrating with sugar, not just for the day but for weeks, until the sugar stash is depleted. It's challenging to wean your child off sugar. The school, the parties, and even the calendar seem to be conspiring against you. Changing your child's diet is challenging but far from impossible, and as long as you are honest with your child about why he or she needs to refuse candy from friends and even teachers, you'll succeed together." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Many children, for example, stop taking their stimulants every weekend, on holidays, and for the entire summer without any noticeable withdrawal effects or even mild dependence. Although there are exceptions, if a physician prescribes within accepted standards of care there's little likelihood of a child developing severe abuse and dependence during the treatment process. However, the long-term effects are more menacing. The routine use of Ritalin in childhood for the treatment of ADHD predisposes the individual to abuse cocaine in young adulthood." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "If your child has routinely come off stimulants with no signs of difficulty on weekends and school holidays, then there is probably not much risk involved in simply stopping the drug. After all, you've already stopped the drugs many times before without anything going wrong. Nonetheless, I always prefer to taper stimulants for a few weeks just to be on the safe side. While your child is coming off a psychiatric drug such as Ritalin, you should check with his or her teachers to see if any unusual behavior has been observed, but you may not want to tell the teachers what you are doing." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"So one day this esteemed doctor and researcher was making chicken soup for the Jewish holidays with his wife, Barbara. And they started chatting about how good it is for colds. Pause for a moment for editorial comment. Years ago, when I was a "blond," I was having my hair bleached one day, and let me tell you, it burned. The hairdresser said, "Hey, let me put some sugar or Sweet'N Low on it; it takes away the burn." My reaction: Huh? Until she put it on. It was like magic. No burn, soothing as aloe vera gel." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Death of a spouse" was first on the list, worth a full 100 "life change units" (LCUs); "taking out a big mortgage" was midway down, worth 31 LCUs; and going through Christmas holidays was near the bottom of the list, worth a mere 12 LCUs.36 (As a matter of interest, the original scores had been determined by making marriage the fixed midpoint on the scale, and then asking groups of people to rank the other stressors in relation to that fixed point." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"It's a sense of doom washing over my entire body. On holidays, particularly Christmas and Mother's Day, or when I see my friends with their parents, the longing is unbearable. Worst of all, that's when my MS gets worse." When we met Jayne, she explained how Recasting has saved her from this cycle. Feelings: "I've trained myself. When I first feel the sadness coming on I say, 'Stop, it's time to Recast before I begin to spiral down.'" Meaning: "The meaning can vary. Sometimes it's just realizing that I feel particularly vulnerable right now, or needy, or fatigued." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"But there will be many times when you will be eating out—at friends' homes, in restaurants—and also many occasions like parties and holidays that require certain tactics to enable you to stick to your healthy lifestyle. We'll provide LifePlan tips for each of those situations. Building a SuperFoodsRx-friendly meal-anywhere, anytime Let's begin with a general rule that will be true for dining in restaurants, during travel and at parties." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Once again, confounding influences such as weather, weekends or holidays had been controlled for.'8 The TM studies, as well as Nelson's FieldREG work, in their own small, preliminary way offered hope to an alienated and Godless generation. Good might well be able to conquer evil after all. We could create a better community. We had the collective capacity to make the world a better place. Radin was being a bit facetious when he came Up with the idea." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"A telltale sign of occupational asthma is that symptoms fade over the weekend or during holidays. It can take weeks, months or years before workplace-caused asthma becomes evident. Grain dust, for instance, can be carried spasmodically by the wind from nearby flourmills to a workplace and the allergy may only develop over a period of time. Cigarette smokers are much more likely to develop occupational asthma than non-smokers. This is because the linings of the air passages are damaged by cigarette smoke and they then react more to other triggers." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"The available scientific literature on obesity suggests that consistent self-monitoring, particularly of food intake, is associated with improved treatment outcome [71, 72], even during high-risk periods such as holidays [73]. Stimulus control involves the identification and modification of environmental cues associated with overeating and sedentary activity and is widely accepted as clinically effective [74]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "In one trial, 195 adults were weighed four times at intervals of 6 to 8 weeks before, during, and following the winter holidays as well as approximately 1 year from the first weighing [6]. Body weight increased during the holiday period, but not the pre- or post-holiday periods, and the increment of approximately 0.48 kg was retained at the 1-year follow-up. In a more tightly controlled feeding trial, six nonobese males were fed 20%, 40%, and 60% more energy than required for three 21-day periods with 1-week ad libitum intakes between [7]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"An ad for the heartburn drug Pepcid assured revelers during the winter holidays that they could "eat, drink and be merry." Indeed, the industry has ads promoting overindulgence for just about every change in the seasons. In the summer of 2006, marketers of the heartburn drug Prilosec sponsored a concert by the hard-partying country-rock duo Big & Rich at the Iowa State Fair. Fairgoers were even offered a guide to eating the fat-laden snacks offered by vendors on the midway. "Pace yourself," the Prilosec guide warned. " - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Make a point to purposefully celebrate holidays. Create a family shrine. In Okinawan homes, the ancestor shrine is always displayed in the best room in the house. It showcases pictures of deceased loved ones and their important possessions. It serves as a constant reminder that we're not islands in times but connected to something bigger. We can pick a wall to display pictures of our parents and children, or take annual family pictures and display them in progression. Put family first. Invest time and energy in your children, your spouse, and your parents." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"The results took into account the days of the week, holidays, and even lunar cycles; and they were so consistent that the researchers were able to identify the minimum number of people needed to experience inner peace before it's mirrored in the surrounding world: the square root of one percent of the population. This represents only the base number required for the effect to begin?the more people participate, the more pronounced the outcome. While we may not fully understand all the reasons why the effects are present, the correlations and results demonstrate that they are there." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"On average, people gain a little more than one pound of weight during the holidays. But 20 percent of people gain between two and five pounds over the holidays, and 10 percent put on more than five pounds. In most cases, people do not lose this weight during the following spring or fall. It just adds up year after year. Of course, these extra calories—think sugary and carb-rich foods— are above and beyond the regular huge portions that people eat on most days. Researchers have also found that people tend to eat substantially more on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and celebratory days (e.g." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"The same applies to spirituality At last Easter's sermon, attendance at my church was dramatically greater than usual, as is typical for holidays. Starting his sermon, the minister laughed and said, "Now I'm going to talk to all of you that I last talked to last Easter, and won't see again till next year." Going to church on holidays is a symptom of seeing worship as an event. A daily prayer practice is a process that enfolds every event of the day It is in these regular daily choices that new quantum potentials are activated." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Another one: inviting doctors for "information holidays." There are many ways to develop new markets. One can define a new phobia. (Not to say that there isn't a single human individual 40 http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7342/886 who lacks phobias.) Or one can take the older population and, instead of promoting Calcium and Magnesium for the old bones, develop a new wonder-pill. One can point to erection problems (as in the case of Viagra) and so on. FINDING new diseases. DEFINING new diseases. PROMOTING new diseases. That is the high-art of the pharmaceutical research expert." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

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