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The holidays are festive and fun, but they also come with a lot of stress. Between social evenings, family gatherings, and all of the indulgences with food and alcohol, not to mention taking time for your normal daily obligations, this time of year can take a toll on your health. Which is why it’s so important to carve out time to take care of your own needs, too.
It’s not selfish to practice self-care. In fact, it’s the best thing you can do for your physical, mental and emotional health. And it has a positive effect on your family and how you approach each day. When you are taking care and pursuing ways to release or let go of stress, it will make your holiday season that much more rewarding. (Plus, it doesn’t have to take up much of your time if you plan correctly.)
Following are some easy ways to take care of yourself this holiday season:
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Genealogy used to be something reserved for grandparents and great aunts with a lot of time on their hands to do the painstaking and time-consuming research. It involved looking through old family letters and photographs, gathering somewhat subjective and often unreliable interviews of surviving family members, and perhaps traveling to local libraries to research newspaper articles to piece together a coherent family history.
No longer. With easy access to research via the Internet and the popularity of low-cost DNA testing, curious people are looking to trace their ancestral heritage, and for many, the results have typically been surprising.
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Are you a fan of the outdoors? Considering this is the centennial anniversary of the National Park Service, it might be a good time to consider exploring nearby parks to hike. Late summer and early fall can be ideal times to get outside, because the weather is starting to cool but the first snow hasn’t fallen yet.
Not everyone is lucky enough to live near a hiking trail, but there are plenty of weekend trips you can take to get your nature fix. If you aren’t into camping because you like hot meals and showers, day hikes might be just the thing to help you unplug and unwind from a busy week.
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Popular British chef Jamie Oliver made a name for himself by teaching families how to eat healthier by making nutrient-rich and delicious meals at home. Now, the celebrity chef has partnered with recipe box service Hello Fresh to provide his own brand of healthy and easy meals, delivered to your home.
Each week one of Jamie’s recipes will be in HelloFresh’s subscription boxes for customers to try. Hello Fresh welcomes the new partnership as a complement to its mission of providing easy, tasty meal recipes along with fresh ingredients right to your door. The company stresses its recipes are time-saving as well, making the experience more convenient for the subscriber.
Oliver has introduced his own recipes for the Hello Fresh partnership, offering a variety of ingredients, spices and cooking tips for novice at-home chefs. His goal is to help customers expand their kitchen repertoire and palette as well as encouraging healthier eating.
“HelloFresh’s recipes are healthy,” Oliver said in a statement, “and the recipes are broken down really simply, so even novice cooks will be able to follow them and get a great result.”
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Choosing a website theme is one thing, but choosing the right web hosting platform is entirely another. Let’s say you have purchased a website domain and managed to work your way through the Wordpress or SquareSpace templates to choose the best one for your business or blog. But the bigger question is – how do you choose the best hosting service?
Web hosting services are really important to any online business. Even more than an attractive website, a good hosting platform means that your website will be available to customers anytime with minimal downtime and problems. Hosting services also insure your content gets delivered to readers and customers’ browsers in a timely manner, which is really important if you have an online store. Web hosting services offer varying amounts of monthly data transfers, storage, email, and other features.
So how do you choose a good web hosting service? Following are some tips from PC Magazine to help you get started:
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It’s the start of holiday season, which means lots of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, pumpkin desserts, and festive party snacks. If you are trying to maintain or strive for a healthy diet, this can be a stressful time of year.
Instead of being anti-social and avoiding parties, dinners, and events where you could be tempted to overindulge, there are some preventative measures you can take so you can celebrate the season. It’s possible to enjoy holiday foods and also try to maintain a healthy balance, it just takes a little effort and dedication.
The Following are some tips for eating healthy during the holidays:
