Flannery Dean

What’s wrong with picking up a breakfast sandwich at a fast food chain on your way to work in the morning? More than you might think. According to a recent release from the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, that egg, cheese and sausage concoction can have immediate effects on blood vessels.

Festive theft is the rather jolly term used to describe the everyday grief of having your wallet or your iPod stolen during the months of November and December. It is theft as set to the tune of Michael Bublé’s rendition of I’ll Be Home for Christmas.

For most of us, the holidays wouldn’t be the same without certain foods and family recipes.

But if you want to avoid sweatpants season this year, or if you simply want to amuse yourself, check out some of the five kookiest tips experts are offering to avoid overeating this yuletide.

There is a cure for holiday-related muffin top and it involves less pain, suffering and self-hatred than you might imagine.