Nov 27, 2007

This shouldn’t come as a surprise: Thanksgiving is not the green light to a six-week indulgence that precedes the waddle back to the gym Jan. 2…The holiday season that starts with Thanksgiving (or even Halloween) and ends with New Year’s is a slippery slope, said Barry Popkin, who directs the University of North Carolina Interdisciplinary Obesity Center.

To read the entire article (“Work off those holiday calories fast,” The Associated Press, November 23, 2007), click here:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/11/23/tgiving.indulge.ap/

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