MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Here are this week's read­ing diver­sions for your per­sonal enlight­en­ment. Have an Excel­lent, and Merry, Christ­mas Weekend!

Spoil­ing With Presents: Are Kids Get­ting Too Much For Christmas?

How many gifts do your kids get under the tree each year? Two? Five? Ten? A dozen or more?

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Eat­ing­Well: 9 Win­ter Foods for Healthy, Beau­ti­ful Skin

Even though you're likely bar­ing less skin dur­ing the win­ter months, it's still impor­tant to pay atten­tion to your skin. As a reg­is­tered dietit­ian and asso­ciate nutri­tion edi­tor of Eat­ing­Well mag­a­zine I know that what you eat can pro­vide a pow­er­ful line of defense against dry­ness and UV dam­age, min­i­mize wrin­kles and pro­mote smooth skin. Even bet­ter, many of these foods are ripe and in-season now. Here are nine of the best win­ter foods for your skin.

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Mediter­ranean Diet Could Help You Live Longer: Study

"This means in prac­tice that older peo­ple who eat a Mediter­ranean diet live an esti­mated 2–3 years longer than those who don't," Gian­luca Tognon, sci­en­tist at the Sahlgren­ska Acad­emy, Uni­ver­sity of Gothen­burg, said in a statement.

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7 Signs Santa Has Alzheimer's | Caring.com

Only a doc­tor, of course, can diag­nose Alzheimer's dis­ease. But Mrs. Claus would do well to take a closer look at the fol­low­ing warn­ing signs, which war­rant a cog­ni­tive eval­u­a­tion and med­ical exam in order to rule out other pos­si­ble causes of demen­tia or — though it seems impos­si­ble to imag­ine in some­one known for his ho, ho, ho — depression.

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Secrets of the world's old­est people

Plant based foods, like fruits, veg­eta­bles, grains, beans, nuts and seed are packed with nutri­ents that pro­mote good health. They con­tain essen­tial anti-oxidant nutri­ents, good oils and lots of fibre. While not all of the cul­tures with long lifes­pans were veg­e­tar­ian, all ate diets with a high pro­por­tion of plant foods.

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27 Foods That Can trig­ger Migraines — Migraine

All kinds of beans are poten­tial food trig­gers – string beans, navy beans, kid­ney beans, lima beans, all of them. The tan­nin in beans may be the culprit.

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Best iPad and iPhone Games for Lit­tle Kids — Edu­ca­tional iPhone Apps — Parenting.com

Stuck wait­ing in line or plod­ding through a long-haul car trip? App devel­oper Peter Evan Gins­berg rounds up the best iPhone and iPad apps to enter­tain (and maybe even edu­cate) tod­dlers and preschool­ers. Plus: Check out more great iphone apps for kids of all ages.

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Spec­tac­u­lar Christ­mas Trees, From War­saw to the White House (Pho­tos) — The Daily Beast

The Christ­mas tree tra­di­tion seems to get stronger each year, with even some coun­tries like Thai­land, which is over­whelm­ingly Bud­dhist, get­ting into the spirit. From Sin­ga­pore to South Car­olina and the White House, see some of the most elaborate—and enormous—Christmas trees from around the world

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Christ­mas Toy Fads From Cab­bage Patch Kids to Rubik's Cube — The Daily Beast

In the spirit of hol­i­day nos­tal­gia, The Daily Beast combed the records of Christ­mases past for a look at the top-selling toy crazes over the last three decades, includ­ing the ones on this year's wish lists.

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