The holidays can be a stressful time on many levels - picking out the perfect presents, cooking large elaborate meals with the family and all the travel to get to your loved ones. This week, we're featuring some sites that provide some great advice on how to keep things safe and stress-free.Worried about cooking your holiday meats to the right temperature? Need to know how to long it's okay to leave a buffet out? Check out the USDA's Holiday Food Safety Fact Sheets opens in a new tab, which range on topics from entertaining and buffet service, food safety on the road and even an entire sheet dedicated to turducken opens in a new tab!With all the celebration, there's often a lot of alcohol consumption. We encourage all of you out there (who are of age!) to drink responsibly. Here are some tips from Psych Central opens in a new tab on how to keep your holiday drinking safe. If you're not sure how much is too much, check out this new mobile app, B4U Drink opens in a new tab that calculate your Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) based on the number and types of drinks you've had.Feeling the holiday blues? Stress from family, travel and too much to take care of getting to you? The Mayo Clinic's got an excellent list of advice on how to cope with stress over the holidays opens in a new tab.Our favorite piece of advice from the Mayo Clinic:
“Don't abandon healthy habits. Don't let the holidays become a dietary free-for-all. Some indulgence is OK, but overindulgence only adds to your stress and guilt. Have a healthy snack before holiday parties so that you don't go overboard on sweets, cheese or drinks. Continue to get plenty of sleep and schedule time for physical activity.”
