{"id":17380,"date":"2014-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/29\/how-your-body-deals-with-the-excess-calories-taken-during-thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2014-11-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T00:00:00","slug":"how-your-body-deals-with-the-excess-calories-taken-during-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/how-your-body-deals-with-the-excess-calories-taken-during-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"How Your Body Deals With The Excess Calories Taken During Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been said that an average American consumes an average of 3,000 calories while having a traditional <strong>Thanksgiving<\/strong> meal with an additional 1,500 calories on drinks, desserts and other snacks. When you consider the list of items on a traditional thanksgiving dinner &#8211; turkey, ham, buttery mashed potatoes, gravy, pumpkin pies, corn bread etc., you don&#8217;t need to think too far on what the total calorie intake just during the dinner may be.<\/p>\n<p>While we are having fun and enjoying this special moment by engorging all these food, experts have said that we are also doing a disservice to our body by overloading the digestive organs with more work than it is accustomed to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Food-thanksgiving-tm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15753\" src=\"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Food-thanksgiving-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Food-thanksgiving-tm\" width=\"502\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the <strong>American Heart Association<\/strong>, some of the tips below can be utilized in managing calorie intake during the festive seasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eat lower-fat and reduced-calorie foods for days in advance of the holiday feast, and for days after.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare for handling your worst temptations; if you want both pecan and pumpkin pie, take a tiny slice of each, instead of a full serving.<\/li>\n<li>If cooking, provide low-fat foods, or ask if you can bring a low-fat dish.<\/li>\n<li>After the meal, start a tradition &#8212; a holiday walk, for instance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although we may have overeaten during thanksgiving, but some of the tips provided by\u00a0the American Heart Association can help us to curtail our food intake during the next festive season, <strong>Christmas<\/strong>, and similar occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below of an expert describing what really happens to your body after gorging so much thanksgiving dinner.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.live.huffingtonpost.com\/HPLEmbedPlayer\/?segmentId=5473e39a78c90aaf4f0002f9&amp;autoPlay=false\" width=\"570\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Credit:<\/strong> Alamy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been said that an average American consumes an average of 3,000 calories while having a traditional Thanksgiving meal with an additional 1,500 calories on drinks, desserts and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2222,297,2293,298],"tags":[2346,2347,2313],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}