Hello all, and welcome to the second installment of Staying Healthy for the Holidays. Ahhh...holidays, endless hours spent indoors watching holiday favorites like: "It's a Wonderful life", "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", and for the more refined tastes, "Scrooged". Let's not forget that annual 24 hours of "A Christmas Story"! Today I want to discuss ways to stay active and avoid the sedentary behaviors that tend to happen in the cold winter months. Staying active can help avoid Seasonal Affective Disorder, keep the pounds from accumulating, improve your immune system, and also stave off aches and pains associated with lethargy. While it might be natural to feel like you want to hibernate like the (Chicago) bears, there is nothing in our known history where homo sapiens have ever hibernated. We hunted and foraged to stay alive in winters. Many Northern European descendants have evolved to have a natural amount of "brown fat". This is commonly found in hibernating animals and actually creates heat through a chemical process similar to muscle energy production. It is believed to be lost in most humans as we leave infancy however, and we would die in just 3 days without water, so ixnay on the ibernationhanay. Here are five easy tips to staying active this winter!!
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