Seven Tips to Help You Eat Healthy During the Holidays...Without Alienating Yourself from the People You Love!

By Lori Lipinski

Imagine walking into your parents' house to find your entire family poisoning themselves. Mom and Dad are sitting on the couch munching dioxin. Grandma is in the kitchen doing a shot of formaldehyde. And Aunt Betty is stuffing her face with antifreeze. But just when you think you're shocked and horrified, it gets worse. Before you can yell out the words, "Stop, you're killing yourselves!" Your family approaches you and offers you some of their poison. So what do you do? If you say no, you won't be part of the group and you'll feel left out. If you say yes, you'll be poisoning yourself just to fit in and be accepted.

Sounds like a scary scene from a science fiction film or a really bad dream. But it's not—it's Christmas!

Don't the holidays look just a little different from the eyes of those who know where their food comes from? And once you know, it's hard not to want to share it with anyone who'll listen. The problem is that most often that does not include your own family. So no matter how badly you want them to be aware of good nutrition, informing them over the holiday meal is probably not a good idea.

Let's face it, most of your family probably already feels a little annoyed by your healthy eating habits, whether you talk to them about it or not. Anytime you make a choice that is different from the mainstream, it challenges others' belief systems. For instance, just by choosing to eat organic foods, you raise the question for others, "What's wrong with the regular produce from the grocery store?" The problem is that most people don't want to know the answer to that question. So the conscious choices you make about the foods you eat challenge people to think about things they would rather not think about. Unfortunately, some people would rather not know the truth about certain things, especially when it comes to food.

But when you know, there's no going back, is there? So the question is, do you join them in celebrating the holidays by pigging out on foods that destroy your health? Fortunately, you don't have to. Here are seven tips to help you eat healthy this holiday season—without alienating yourself from the people you love:

For the seven tips go towww.westonaprice.org/transition/seventips.html

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