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Friday, November 18, 2011

We’re supposed to indulge on Thanksgiving – but let’s not get carried away...

Forget the diet and loosen your belt – Thanksgiving is almost here...

Go ahead and gobble - but if you'd like to minimize some of the damage, here are a few dishes to skip the seconds on:

• Dark meat turkey with skin has 70 more calories and 3 times more fat per serving than white meat without the skin.

• Creamed spinach is loaded with saturated fat – eat at your own risk.

• Canned cranberry sauce is like edible soda – and packed with sugar. If there’s a fresh cranberry sauce on the table, eat that instead.

• Candied yams are basically a side of starch and sugar. Have a sweet potato instead.

• The green bean casserole with fried onions on top is swimming in fat and sodium. Skip the seconds on those.

• Pecan pie: 500 calories and 37 grams of fat per slice. Cheesecake: 700 calories and 29 grams of fat. Pumpkin pie: Priceless. It’s got half the fat and calories.

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