With MHIKNET staff contemplating a well-deserved holiday break, we thought you’d be interested in a few web sites and articles on health and the holidays. Most of the sites are from the Government of Canada’s Healthy Canadians web site and might be good for your patients and family. The Statistics Canada page is a wealth of information and facts that will stagger and amaze you. Definitely worth the long read. We’ve also selected articles on a variety of topics from the health effects of holidays; toxic holiday plants; energy expenditure; a holiday wish for Canadian children and an interesting case of Christmas giving a small population Hay Fever! Hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed selecting them!

Web sites

• Stress, depression and the holidays: Tips for coping [Mayo Clinic]
• Healthy Holiday Eating [Healthy Canadians; 2013]
• Holiday food safety [Healthy Canadians; 2013]
• Toy safety during the holidays [Healthy Canadians; 2013]
• Holiday Safety [Healthy Canadians; 2013]

Statistics Canada

Christmas… by the numbers 2013 [Statistics Canada]
You’ll be amazed!

Articles [freely available]

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Carol A. Cooke

Acting MHIKNET Librarian

Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library
University of Manitoba
e. carol.cooke@umanitoba.ca

p. 204-977-5660

c. 204-290-6710

w. http://mhiknet.lib.umanitoba.ca/