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WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – A heaping plate of turkey, sides and all the fixings, served with a glass of wine and followed by a slice of pie with whipped cream, it can add up to nearly 2,500 calories, in one sitting! If you add in appetizers and more drinks, a holiday celebration can exceed 3,000 calories. That’s about 50 percent more than the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s recommended adult daily calorie intake.
“The holidays are a great time to start developing healthy habits that can carry you thru all of the next year. You don’t really have to wait until the new year to make a resolution to eat more healthy,” said Dr. Brian Goldstein, Chief Medical Officer United Healthcare.
Don’t over stuff yourself and you can still enjoy the things you want to enjoy. “If you go into it saying, I’m just going to do that one thing. I’m not going to over stuff myself I think that’s a big step towards avoiding not feeling well for starters but also avoid some of the weight gain that people tend to experience during the holidays,” said Goldstein.
Keep portions small, remember to incorporate lots of fruits and vegetables, avoid processed sugar and extra salt.
Here are some other tips:
Pick your poultry wisely: Turkey and chicken are healthier than high-fat duck and goose. At mealtime, select white meat, which contains less fat than dark. Keep meat to a 3-ounce portion, roughly the same size as a deck of cards. Remove turkey or chicken skin to cut even more fat.
Plan your portions: Use the American Diabetes Association’s Create Your Plate tool to get an idea of healthy portions of vegetables, protein, grains and starchy foods, fruit and drink.
Revise recipes. There are lots of recipe alternatives out there that can cut fat and sodium as well as calories. Check out these five easy ingredient swaps to get started.
Avoid emotional eating: Digging into a cheeseball when you’re cranky may offer short-term comfort from holiday stress, but emotional eating can sabotage weight-control efforts, according to the Mayo Clinic. Try managing stress levels with yoga, meditation or deep breathing instead.
Don’t show up hungry: Does your office holiday party take place over lunch? If so, eat breakfast and a mid-morning snack to curb your appetite. If it’s an evening bash, have chicken or fish for lunch and a high-fiber, mid-afternoon snack to keep you fuller longer.
Indulge selectively: Think you can’t eat pumpkin pie? Maybe you can, if you keep the portion small and forgo whipped topping. Or, maybe you choose to pass on dinner rolls and bacon-wrapped sausages to free up discretionary calories for a cookie or cup of eggnog.
Benefit from a buddy: The American Diabetes Association recommends enlisting the help of a friend, coworker or family member who also wants to avoid overeating. The two of you can split a dessert or even go for a walk together while everyone else sits down to pie and ice cream.
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LIMA — Activate Allen County held its Healthy Families Expo on Saturday at the Veterans Memorial Civic Center.
The event featured more than 20 community vendors with a focus on promoting a healthy lifestyle.
“We also have a ton of fun in the process,” said Kayla Monfort, co-director of Activate Allen County. “We’re all about getting education to our residents and also providing a place where they can have free entertainment, free fun activities. So we have face painting, bounce houses, superheroes and a princess dressed up. We have Santa and a live reindeer so we have a ton of things for kids and families and everyone to enjoy.”
One of the sponsors was Mercy Health.
“We have about seven departments represented,” said Ann Styles, community affairs coordinator. “We’ve got the Sleep Center, we have hospice, we have the Heart and Stroke Center, athletic training rehab. We also have Go Noodle and we’re also doing some health screenings through our residency program.”
Styles says it’s important to promote a healthy lifestyle, especially for our youth.
“We want to be able to offer a healthy lifestyle for all ages, all groups, to teach the families and the kids and the parents to be able to be healthy from the ground up and continue on with the healthy lifestyle also to be able to connect them with the services that we offer, whether that is our heart center or physicians and all the services that we offer at Mercy Health,” Styles said.
One program offered by the Allen County Public Health that promotes a healthy lifestyle is WIC, Women Infants and Children.
“We provide nutrition support and education for women who are pregnant and after they’ve had their babies and then children from birth to the age of five, before they enter the school system” said Lori Nester, breastfeeding coordinator at the Allen County WIC program. “Our goal is to make sure that we are hitting healthy food choices, protein, iron, calcium. We do a lot of nutrition education about infant feeding, feeding young children, dealing with picky eaters, all the different things that come up while you’re raising children.”
David Ciminillo, 8 and from Omaha, who is in Lima visiting family for Thanksgiving, shoots an arrow with help from Nina Buchan from Ada, on Saturday morning at the Activate Lima – Healthy Families Expo.
Jenson Werling, 4, of Lima, dances with superheroes and princesses who were at the Healthy Families Expo to entertain the children.
Reach Sam Shriver at 567-242-0409.