How to stay healthy during the holidays

Judith Wurtman is the former director of the Research Program in Women’s Health at the MIT Clinical Research Center and founder of TRIAD, a Harvard Hospital weight loss center. The holidays are a great time to celebrate with cultural customs and family traditions, but some of those traditions include a whole lot of fat and sugar. If you eat every plate of cookies that is brought to your door, every homemade pie your mother makes, every secret recipe you find at the holiday parties, you may wind up spending Christmas in the emergency room or New Years on a treadmill. How can we stay healthy while still enjoying the flavors of the holiday season? Judith Wurtman helps us know how we can make sure that Santa is the only one gaining the holiday weight this year.