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Here are some interesting facts:

1. Many people report drowsiness after eating Thanksgiving dinner. While turkey often receives the blame, studies suggest that carbohydrate-rich meals may cause sleepiness by increasing the number of tryptophans in the brain. It is the unusually large, multi-coursed, carbohydrate-rich meal most people eat on Thanksgiving that is more likely the cause of the drowsiness. So just eat the turkey and the vegetables and you may not feel drowsy. What, no stuffing, potatoes, rolls, or pie?
2. An average Thanksgiving dinner contains 3000 calories. You will need to walk 40 miles, just to burn off one meal!
3. You eat at least 229 grams of fat in 1 Thanksgiving meal. I am not sure how a meal could contain 229 grams of fat, but if you think about gravy and whipped cream and second helpings, you can begin to imagine the fat content of the foods. Just to remind you, the RDI for fat is 20 to 35 percent of total calories eaten, which amounts to 44 to 77 grams of fat a day if you eat 2,000 calories a day.
4. How many hours would a 160-pound person need to run, at a moderate pace, to burn off the average Thanksgiving Day meal? 4 Hours! Just a mere four hours! Do you think you can fit that into your day? So of course, I caution you to eat wisely as well as to exercise on Thanksgiving. Maybe not for four hours, but try to fit in some form of exercise.