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Top 10 holiday diet disasters

Posted: Nov 16th 2007 10:44AM by Martha Edwards
Filed under: Food and Nutrition, Healthy Events

For me, participating in a cookie exchange at Christmas is bad news. I always tell myself I'm joining because I want to collect a bunch of different kinds of cookies so I can freeze them and bring them out when company is over, but who am I kidding? Those suckers are gone by Christmas Eve. And really, I don't get enough company to justify 12 dozen different varieties.

Diet guru Julia Havey recently put together a list of the worst holiday diet disasters. Here are her picks:
  • Egg Nog. One serving is 460 calories!
  • Cheese balls. They're pretty much all fat. Ick.
  • Pecan Pie. It's 500 calories per slice, and that's without ice cream
  • Candied yams. They'll pack a sugar punch, especially if they have marshmallows.
  • Canned Cranberry Sauce. It has 200 calories per half cup, and zero nutritional value. Make your own
  • Stuffing. You can make healthy stuffing, so do it instead of relying on Stove Top
What's your holiday vice?


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