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Thanksgiving Advice

November 22nd, 2005 by Laura Moncur in Holidays

Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching. Here is some advice from the greats on how to deal with the holiday in a healthy manner:

Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Socrates
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
Epictetus
If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.
Sefer Hasidim
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Especially if it’s pie crust…

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