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Blog Entry 18 of 39 The Donnanator Report
My favorite article topics have been soccer and healthcare issues related to my profession. I'm likely to keep focusing on those, and throw in social commentary and satire as necessary. There are plenty of health, nutrition and food behaviors just screaming for the kind of commentary possible with a blog, and who better to write those than a nutrition professional? I'm a big proponent of taking personal responsibility for health, and that philosophy will definitely influence my analysis of healthcare and health insurance issues. As for soccer, I've written about high school soccer, because that's what makes for good headlines, but clearly mainstream news organizations in the US need to improve coverage and analysis of all soccer, from local clubs to the World Cup.

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Advice on Healthy Holiday Eating? Don't ask me.
Contributed by: Donna Feldman   on 11/23/2007

Thanksgiving's over, but it's a long 4-plus weeks to Christmas. That's plenty of time for more of those annoying Food Nanny articles on "How To Make Thanksgiving or Christmas or Whatever Dinner Healthy". Apparently none of these food journalists bothered to notice that nothing new has been said on this subject since 1980. So we get the same sniffy advice over and over and over: don't eat pie, don't eat gravy, make lowfat potatoes, make lowfat dressing, make lowfat cranberry sauce -- oops it already is. OK, make it no sugar (NOTE: do NOT do that). No whipped cream, no eggnog, no appetizers. Basically these people want holiday dinners to look like this: plain turkey breast (no salt either), steamed beans and a glass of water. Happy Holidays!

I swear, there is not enough money in the world to entice me to ever write yet another version of that article. Reason #1: if all your healthy eating efforts are limited to one or two holiday dinners a year, then your whole healthy eating plan is wrong. Healthier eating should be all year long. The holidays should be a time to enjoy favorite meals without the food police sniping at every mouthful.

Reason #2: I'm going to hazard a guess that the actual meal isn't the problem for a lot of people. It's the after-the-meal eating: picking at leftovers while putting them away, feeling the need to eat dinner at 6 even though you ate Thanksgiving dinner at 1 p.m., snacking on chips all afternoon while watching football, that 2nd piece of pie at bedtime. These are nothing to do with the actual food. This is all just bad habits that lead to overeating. So just stop doing that. And in the interest of disclosure, I'm now off to put away leftovers and pick at the 8 kinds of pie hanging around my kitchen. Then I'm going for a walk.


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Submitted By: Nikki Britain
posted on 12/25/2007 @ 7:43:03 PM
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Wow... it's like you had hidden cameras in my kitchen. Creepy.
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Submitted By: Michael Rule
posted on 12/9/2007 @ 7:33:57 AM
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But,but, I LIKE my little pot belly.....
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Submitted By: Barbara Neff
posted on 11/24/2007 @ 5:24:18 PM
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You are correct, Donna. The meals themselves are not the problems associated with overeating. Problems for me are all the goodies offered everywhere I go, the receiving of goodies as gifts, sweets, candies, cookies, cakes, beverages associated with the season. My willpower drops to zilch.
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Submitted By: Gladys Mercier
posted on 11/23/2007 @ 10:14:47 PM
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Sounds like me Donna.
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