{"id":1039,"date":"2013-12-17T14:15:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T13:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2013-12-17T14:15:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T13:15:58","slug":"public-health-fun-favourite-festive-goodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/jokes\/public-health-fun-favourite-festive-goodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health fun! Favourite festive goodies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ho, ho, ho! This is our last post for 2013 and we are in a festive mood. In case you have not noticed, here is a selfie for you:<\/p>\n

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Apart from our best wishes for the upcoming holidays and new year, we thought we’d look around a bit for public-health related holiday goodies. So here are out top 4<\/span><\/strong> (like in 2014<\/span><\/strong>– see what I did here?)<\/p>\n

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1. Festive Calendar<\/a> from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM<\/a>) -featuring various health related trivia and not only . I know<\/em>. Advent Calendars start on December 1st. I admit I might be late (although I did tweet about it!) but look on the bright side: you can open at least 17 doors at once! (spoiler alert: you can -in fact- open all the doors). Can’t get enough? Then have a look at the evidence-based advent calendar <\/a>from Cochrane<\/a>. Exciting, isn’t it? (if you replied no, Santa will put you on his black list).<\/p>\n

2. Talking about Santa. Who remembers this paper <\/a>published by the Christmas version of the BMJ<\/a>, where poor old Santa was considered responsible for obesity, smoking and drunk-driving. Thankfully, his GP offered another perspective<\/a> for his condition.<\/p>\n

3. What would these days be without singing? If you think you are too old or too serious to be singing Christmas songs, think again! The CDC <\/a>has its own version of the 12 days of Christmas<\/a> song, which they call 12 ways to health song. Sing it along here<\/a><\/p>\n

4. What would an upcoming New Year be without new year’s resolutions. We all do them and a lot of them are related to a healthier lifestyle (I won’t drink too much. I will eat more fruit. I will exercise more. I will….). The CDC offered some healthy tips for keeping the resolutions of 2013\u00a0<\/a>(applicable to every year, mind you) and the NHS also aspires to help you keeping your resolutions. <\/a><\/p>\n

As for me, I have only one resolution this year:<\/p>\n

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Happy holidays everyone! See you in 2014! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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  Ho, ho, ho! This is our last post for 2013 and we are in a festive mood. In case you have not noticed, here is a selfie for you: Apart from our best wishes for the upcoming holidays and new year, we thought we’d look around a bit for public-health related holiday goodies. So… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[44,157,398,609,610,708,766],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes","category-public-health-fun","tag-advent-calendar","tag-christmas","tag-holidays","tag-new-year","tag-new-years-resolutions","tag-public-health-fun","tag-santa-claus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}