The New Year’s can be a great time to get together with family, eat, and have a good time. It’s fun and there’s nothing like counting down to the new year. A new year can mean a fresh start for some and for others it can to achieve more than last year. With all this fun going on, it’s almost a sure thing that someone will offer you something to drink. This calls for the question, “Should you drink alcohol this New Year’s Eve?”

Any party we go to thrown by our family will have alcohol. For us, there’s no getting away from it unless we stay home. As a matter of fact, the first time I ever drank alcohol was at a New Year’s party. My fourteen-year-old self was blacked out, laughing and crying, and making a fool of myself on video. Thinking about it now makes me sick!

In order to really make an educated decision, it’s important to understand what alcohol does to the body. Read more

Christmas is indeed one of those most wonderful times of the year. It’s a time when families gather together to celebrate one another and gift gives of appreciation. We get a chance to see those family members who we may not see all throughout the year.

If your family cooks a Christmas dinner, then you know it can be Thanksgiving all over again, but with more red and green. It’s a fun time and you should definitely enjoy yourself. That being said, it should of no surprise that many holiday treats and snacks should be avoided as well.

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Christmas Snacks And Treats That Should Be Avoided

There are many treats that we already know to stay away from because we stay away from them the other eleven months of the year. For example, all those different Christmas Hershey Kisses. However, a lot of Christmas snacks are things we’re unfamiliar with.

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If there’s one fruit I love, it’s tomatoes! Although they’re technically a fruit, we prepare and eat it like a vegetable. There are many health benefits of tomatoes which are a great secondary reason to consume it. (The first reason is for its great taste!)

Nutritional Facts:

Serving Size: One small 100-gram tomato

Calories: 18

Sugar: 2.6 grams

Fiber: 1.2 grams

Fat: 0.2 grams

Carbs: 3.9 grams

Protein: 0.9 grams Read more