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Not be denied that any celebration of Christmas, meals became the most awaited ritual. The Feast is always synonymous with good food, including the celebration of Christmas and new year. Until next weekend, the schedule for Christmas dinner and New Year’s party must have waited for you. Pictured on the eyelids, the rows of high cholesterol tasty dishes are ready “invade” your body.

Maintaining a healthy diet, certainly quite difficult to do. Especially when the scent of a typical Christmas meal, make you swallow his own saliva and the like “forced” to forget the healthy lifestyle you’ve planned before. Study conducted the New England Journal of Medicine shows that every holiday season, many people gain weight and was never able to eliminate the excess.

But do not let your desire to keep your weight just take the shine off the holiday you celebrate with family. You can still enjoy delicious Christmas dinner and new year, but the diet was maintained.

There are some dishes that you should be aware of. Like a turkey or roast beef. This Christmas specialty of saturated fat. Especially in the turkey and chicken skin. In each gram, saturated fat contains more calories than carbohydrates and contribute to increased cholesterol. Meanwhile, beef and other red meat, even more should be avoided anymore because it contains more cholesterol than white meat.

Because that’s when to eat it, choose the breast meat of fat-free. Avoid the skin. Baked skin golden brown and crispy with a tasty sauce melt is just the most delicious part. But if you do not want the body buried in cholesterol, better avoid it.

The second is food, cakes and biscuits. Various soft cake decorated with cream, grated cheese, and sweet butter is so tempting. Similarly, the biscuits are shaped variety. Very tempting! But this is the source of high calories. One or two pieces will not make you satisfied. Would want to eat again and again.

If you want to taste some cookies, select the fabric of wheat or cereals. Avoid overly sweet with sugar decorations, brown, or too salty cheese with the materials.

Also, pay attention to the consumption of chocolate. Based milk, chocolate has a very high fat content. But lower healthy nutrition as in dark chocolate containing cocoa. According to research, good cocoa to heart health

You can still taste the chocolate in small doses. Choose dark chocolate which contains more cocoa, about 70%. Avoid chocolate caramel given, vanilla cream, jam or sweet.

Christmas celebrations often requires physical preparation in order to be healthy. Doing so many things to make Christmas a special requires your body to remain in good shape. Maybe you intend to paint the house or fence to make it look brighter.

Annual routine such as decorating the Christmas tree or make a cake and various other dishes as a meal while visiting relatives of your residence. Do all that, surely can make your body tired.

Now, do some simple things to keep the following in the body to stay healthy despite a busy preparing for Christmas.

1. Consider eating
Do not let being busy taking care of this, the ritual meal you become disturbed or even you had forgotten to eat. Sometimes a diet is a wrong decision. Because little is as successful on the diet and back fat because “revenge” against the food.

Another alternative that can be done is to change eating patterns. Habits that need to run another is to replace the habit of snacking on fruit fresh. Make sure always available fresh fruit ready to eat snacks when the desire arise. If the fruits can be quite troublesome always replaced with fresh water availability.

2. Change the pattern of life.
In addition to changing eating style, you also need to change your lifestyle to be more healthy. Simple tips the easiest is to familiarize breathe deeply. This activity can be done in the morning and there was every opportunity. And Find a fun physical activity like playing badminton or other sports.

But the important thing is make this as a routine activity. The simplest tips are to sleep and wake up on time. Conditioned sleeping about 10 hours of the night and wake up at 4 am, but tailored to the needs. What is important is the time sleep becomes routine. The next step is to ensure that getting to sleep that soundly.

Hopefully with a healthy body condition, you can celebrate a happy Christmas with family

Christmas falls every month of December is always in tandem with the rainy season. Flu, colds and influenza is a disease that often come primarily during the rainy season. Well, that did not hurt at Christmas prepare yourself and refer to the following tips.

Healthy tips to overcome the flu, colds, influenza is actually easy and cheap. Not even need to see a doctor if it’s not necessary. Because this disease is basically a result of viral infection (viral infection). Virus infection is self-limiting diseases, which means it can heal itself. With mild effort we can overcome the flu, colds and influenza. How to tips to overcome the flu?

Here are some steps you can do.

1. Lie down, get bed rest in peace. Leave for a moment the whole affair. focus is the mind that you need to recover from this disease. Thus the body’s immune system get positive energy of positive thoughts, too.
2. Drink lots of water. As much as you can drink. Not only white water course, water can warm tea.
3. Take vitamins or other supplements. At the time the flu, the immune system or immune system decline, requires assistance from outside. This is the time to drink vitamins or honey and others.
4. Try to eat a balanced nutrition. Avoid fatty and fried foods.
5. Pray, pray be the cure. By praying to stimulate the immune system to enhance immune.

If the steps to overcome the flu, colds has not been successful visit your doctor. The aim is first, see if there is another ride infection. If only the flu, colds, cough usually not a problem. the problem is if there is co-infection with other like URTI, DHF, typhoid and others. Because the initial symptoms of the disease like flu symptoms. Medical term, flu-like syndroma. So need careful here.

Second, to obtain drugs in accordance with existing symptoms. As a cure for fever, cure for nasal congestion, phlegm or mucus thinners, and vitamins.