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By HELEN W. SMITH
Extension Agent, Home Economic*
The Extension Office has been teaching a 10-week weight control class this fall that includes nutrition, exercise, and behavior modification lessons. This week’s lesson was on “Low-calorie Eating During the Holiday Season,” so I decided to include the main points in my nutrition column.
If you are trying to lose weight or simply follow a low-fat, hearthealthy diet, you may look upon the holiday season with mixed emotions, or dread. Tempting, high-calorie edibles seem unavoidable and may even arrive at your door as gifts. How can you resist? Should you? Why do we stuff ourselves in November and again in December?
Historical Background
First, a bit of history on Thanksgiving and the subject of “feasting.” Thanksgiving, as observed in the U.S., resulted from a campaign mounted by Sarah Josepha Hale, an influential magazine editor of the last century. She thought the threeday harvest feast celebrated at Plymouth, Mass., in 1621 should become a national custom. Thus in
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