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11 Holiday Health Hazards To Avoid

First Posted: 11/13/11 11:19 AM ET   Updated: 11/14/11 09:35 PM ET

The holidays aren't all joy and cheer. Check out these top seasonal health risks and what you can do to avoid them.

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Christmas cookies, eggnog, late-night leftover ham sandwiches: All that holiday joy adds up to at least a pound a year, but studies suggest that you never really take it off. Keep eating everything you want over the holidays and you'll end up looking like Santa when swimsuit season rolls around. Try these tips to avoid holiday weight gain.


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The holidays aren't all joy and cheer. Check out these top seasonal health risks and what you can do to avoid them. ...
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Victor Saymong
Canuck up Toronto way
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07:58 AM on 11/22/2011
How could they leave out the biggest holiday health hazard of them all: FAMILY - and specifically, In-Laws???
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dan can
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01:32 PM on 11/21/2011
this is a front page worthy story. apparently a very, very slow news day.
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Darkplanet51
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01:31 PM on 11/21/2011
Fearmongering...it gets hits!
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OAK STREET MAFIA
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03:32 PM on 11/15/2011
Toys.....hmmm we were so poor, lucky I was a boy or I'd have nothing to play with on christmas.
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Independent1969
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06:32 PM on 11/14/2011
#12. Stay away from flu shots. They contain nervous system and organ damaging mercury and or aluminum.
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spinachcat
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04:54 AM on 11/14/2011
Deep Fried Turkey Fireballs would be an awesome name for a band.
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JSDKoeln
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05:00 AM on 11/14/2011
or as a name replacement for the tea party
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jeromettaylor
The Aliens were here 1st!
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10:57 PM on 11/13/2011
We've always filled our turkey fryer with gasoline... maybe that's why people come from miles around to see our holiday decorations?
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maxom
Just flew over the coo coo's nest
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11:13 PM on 11/13/2011
If you want to get a really big crowd....fill your kerosene space heater wth gasoline and light it in the garage.....you'll be amazed how many will show up for that.
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garystartswithg
el sueno de la razon produce republicans
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09:13 PM on 11/13/2011
we have some serious food issues in this country. good food doesn't have to be hazardous to your health. really.
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Yellowhammer
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05:11 PM on 11/13/2011
One of the most important rules was omitted. And that was to avoid Occupier Camps in order to minimize exposure to disease, pestilence, and physical danger.
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garystartswithg
el sueno de la razon produce republicans
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09:11 PM on 11/13/2011
nah -- hugging other humans makes you warm and cozy on the inside. have a great new year.
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Yellowhammer
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10:20 AM on 11/14/2011
So does working for a living. Try it.
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spinachcat
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04:53 AM on 11/14/2011
I visited an Occupier Camp and I only found very nice, smart people, some harmless well-meaning kooks and some homeless people. All of them our fellow citizens. Only dangerous thing about them were their ideas about freedom, revolution and the drastic changes needed to make America a country worthy of respect again.

And those ideas? Those are definitely contagious.
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Yellowhammer
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10:23 AM on 11/14/2011
America will be worthy of respect once Obama is voted out of office.
Rapes and murders and assaults are not committed by nice people.
These Occupiers are impeding my rights to be in the spaces they have occupied.
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