It’s OK to Indulge on Thanksgiving. Here’s Why.

Thanksgiving is a time for family, vacation, and tradition. It’s also all about turkey, heaping portions of mom’s homemade stuffing, and impossible-to-resist pecan and pumpkin pies. Just as much as we look forward to the holiday, so too do we freak out about the excess calorie intake and what it will do to our bodies. It’s easy to find healthy recipes for the feast, or you can line up an after-turkey workout session, but is it really all worth it? We hit up four experts to weigh in on how to handle the fantastically fattening feast. It was music to our ears when we were told to not worry and just indulge. Read on to learn why.

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