HOLIDAY SPECIAL

HEALTHY TIPS


Too lazy to sweat out and do some exercises? 
If not lazy, do you think it would be more convenient to take or swallow 
diet pills than boost your metabolism and do things the natural way?


Diet pills therapy is a choice for individuals who don’t want to spend most
 of their time and effort doing exercise and it is also a current-day approach
 to get rid of gaining weight by making you lose your appetite. For some pill 
users, they are not allowed to eat oily food and junk food as well as fast food.


In dieting, setting your goals is very important. Like if you want to get a 
slimmer figure, you could find a product or method of your choice. Just feel 
free and not worry about what others testify because not at all times that
 what works best for them would also work best for you. It is case-to-case 
basis. The market offers different diet pills and they are really making it big 
since many wanted to have the fast and convenient way of toning your body down.


There is however a risk for diet pills, never overdose it because it could give 
out fatal results. Make sure that you are safety while taking it. It is good to 
be healthy and sexy by pills but the feeling of satisfaction and real health differs. 
We could see the good points provided by diet pills but some are really negative 
points to know- for one’s safety.


There are pills which are habit forming and this is alarming. One could become 
dependent in the long run. Just like any other medical concerns, talking to your 
doctor would be a great help. It is for your safety. 


Taking diet pills may also slow down metabolism. Instead of getting well your
 body would stop your appetite causing you not to eat that well, Losing weight
 is good but risking health is not.  


To have a safer use of diet pills, seek a physician’s advice. We just want to inform
 you that boosting your metabolism and trying on the best method to lose weight
 comes naturally from one best time: YOU.


I myself would much rather go without diet pills and be safer even if I must be a
little heavier then I wish to be. I would in the long run be healthier and happier
since many of the diet pills on the market are not approved or/and tested so your
basically being a guienia pig by taking these diet pills and with all the other man-
made chemicals we are exposed to today we don't need to expose ourselves to any 
more then we absolutely have too. Of course its everyone's personal choice to 
choose weather they wish to use diet pills or not to use them to lose & maintain
 their wt, I just hope  you will consider all the negative as well as the positive 
 possible results possible in the future from using them before making that choice.








HOLIDAY POST FROM HISTORY CHANNEL.COM


The Legend of St. Nicholas
The legend of Santa Claus can be traced back hundreds of years to a monk named St. Nicholas. It is believed that Nicholas was born sometime around 280 A.D. in Patara, near Myra in modern-day Turkey. Much admired for his piety and kindness, St. Nicholas became the subject of many legends. It is said that he gave away all of his inherited wealth and traveled the countryside helping the poor and sick. One of the best known of the St. Nicholas stories is that he saved three poor sisters from being sold into slavery or prostitution by their father by providing them with a dowry so that they could be married. Over the course of many years, Nicholas's popularity spread and he became known as the protector of children and sailors. His feast day is celebrated on the anniversary of his death, December 6. This was traditionally considered a lucky day to make large purchases or to get married. By the Renaissance, St. Nicholas was the most popular saint in Europe. Even after the Protestant Reformation, when the veneration of saints began to be discouraged, St. Nicholas maintained a positive reputation, especially in Holland.


Sinter Klaas Comes to New York
St. Nicholas made his first inroads into American popular culture towards the end of the 18th century. In December 1773, and again in 1774, a New York newspaper reported that groups of Dutch families had gathered to honor the anniversary of his death.


The name Santa Claus evolved from Nick's Dutch nickname, Sinter Klaas, a shortened form of Sint Nikolaas (Dutch for Saint Nicholas). In 1804, John Pintard, a member of the New York Historical Society, distributed woodcuts of St. Nicholas at the society's annual meeting. The background of the engraving contains now-familiar Santa images including stockings filled with toys and fruit hung over a fireplace. In 1809, Washington Irving helped to popularize the Sinter Klaas stories when he referred to St. Nicholas as the patron saint of New York in his book, The History of New York. As his prominence grew, Sinter Klaas was described as everything from a "rascal" with a blue three-cornered hat, red waistcoat, and yellow stockings to a man wearing a broad-brimmed hat and a "huge pair of Flemish trunk hose."
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Shopping Mall Santas
Gift-giving, mainly centered around children, has been an important part of the Christmas celebration since the holiday's rejuvenation in the early 19th century. Stores began to advertise Christmas shopping in 1820, and by the 1840s, newspapers were creating separate sections for holiday advertisements, which often featured images of the newly-popular Santa Claus. In 1841, thousands of children visited a Philadelphia shop to see a life-size Santa Claus model. It was only a matter of time before stores began to attract children, and their parents, with the lure of a peek at a "live" Santa Claus. In the early 1890s, the Salvation Army needed money to pay for the free Christmas meals they provided to needy families. They began dressing up unemployed men in Santa Claus suits and sending them into the streets of New York to solicit donations. Those familiar Salvation Army Santas have been ringing bells on the street corners of American cities ever since.


'Twas the Night Before Christmas
In 1822, Clement Clarke Moore, an Episcopal minister, wrote a long Christmas poem for his three daughters entitled "An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas." Moore's poem, which he was initially hesitant to publish due to the frivolous nature of its subject, is largely responsible for our modern image of Santa Claus as a "right jolly old elf" with a portly figure and the supernatural ability to ascend a chimney with a mere nod of his head! Although some of Moore's imagery was probably borrowed from other sources, his poem helped popularize the now-familiar image of a Santa Claus who flew from house to house on Christmas Eve–in "a miniature sleigh" led by eight flying reindeer–leaving presents for deserving children. "An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas" created a new and immediately popular American icon. In 1881, political cartoonist Thomas Nast drew on Moore's poem to create the first likeness that matches our modern image of Santa Claus. His cartoon, which appeared in Harper's Weekly, depicted Santa as a rotund, cheerful man with a full, white beard, holding a sack laden with toys for lucky children. It is Nast who gave Santa his bright red suit trimmed with white fur, North Pole workshop, elves, and his wife, Mrs. Claus.


A Santa by Any Other Name
18th-century America's Santa Claus was not the only St. Nicholas-inspired gift-giver to make an appearance at Christmastime. Similar figures were popular all over the world. Christkind or Kris Kringle was believed to deliver presents to well-behaved Swiss and German children. Meaning "Christ child," Christkind is an angel-like figure often accompanied by St. Nicholas on his holiday missions. In Scandinavia, a jolly elf named Jultomten was thought to deliver gifts in a sleigh drawn by goats. English legend explains that Father Christmas visits each home on Christmas Eve to fill children's stockings with holiday treats. Pere Noel is responsible for filling the shoes of French children. In Russia, it is believed that an elderly woman named Babouschka purposely gave the wise men wrong directions to Bethlehem so that they couldn't find Jesus. Later, she felt remorseful, but could not find the men to undo the damage. To this day, on January 5, Babouschka visits Russian children leaving gifts at their bedsides in the hope that one of them is the baby Jesus and she will be forgiven. In Italy, a similar story exists about a woman called La Befana, a kindly witch who rides a broomstick down the chimneys of Italian homes to deliver toys into the stockings of lucky children.


The Ninth Reindeer
Rudolph, "the most famous reindeer of all," was born over a hundred years after his eight flying counterparts. The red-nosed wonder was the creation of Robert L. May, a copywriter at the Montgomery Ward department store.


In 1939, May wrote a Christmas-themed story-poem to help bring holiday traffic into his store. Using a similar rhyme pattern to Moore's "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," May told the story of Rudolph, a young reindeer who was teased by the other deer because of his large, glowing, red nose. But, When Christmas Eve turned foggy and Santa worried that he wouldn't be able to deliver gifts that night, the former outcast saved Christmas by leading the sleigh by the light of his red nose. Rudolph's message—that given the opportunity, a liability can be turned into an asset—proved popular. Montgomery Ward sold almost two and a half million copies of the story in 1939. When it was reissued in 1946, the book sold over three and half million copies. Several years later, one of May's friends, Johnny Marks, wrote a short song based on Rudolph's story (1949). It was recorded by Gene Autry and sold over two million copies. Since then, the story has been translated into 25 languages and been made into a television movie, narrated by Burl Ives, which has charmed audiences every year since 1964.


Santa Claus @HistoryChannel on History.com








Turkey Pie Casserole


2 1/2 cups baby-cut-carrots
2 cups cut-up-fresh broccoli
3 T butter or margarine
1/2 cup chopped onion
3 T all-purpose flour
2 cups chicken broth
1 tsp. dried sage leaves
2 cups cubed cooked turkey




Biscuits


4 slices bacon
1 cup Original Bisquick mix
1/2 cup mik
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese (2oz)


Heat oven to 400 degrees in 2 qt saucepan heat 1
cup water to boiling. Add carrots & broccoli, cook
about 4 minutes or unti veggies are crisp & tender
drain.


In 3 qt sauce pan, melt butter over 
medium heat. Add onion; cook about 2 minutes stir
occaisionally until tender. Beat in flour with wire
whisk. Gradually beat in broth and sage. Reduce heat
to medium-low; cook about 5 minutes stirring occasionally,
until sauce thickens. Stir carrots,broccoli and turkey into 
sauce. Spoon turkey mixture into ungreased 2 qt casserole.
Place Bacon on microwavable plate; cover with paper towel.
Microwave on High 4to 6 minutes or until crisp. Crumble 
bacon; place in medium bowl. Add remaining biscuit ingredients;
stir until blended. Spoon biscuit batter around edge of turkey
mixture. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until biscuit crust is golden
brown.


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