Today is Thursday, December 1st, 2011 

Eat a Red Apple Day

It’s Eat a Red Apple Day! You know the saying, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away?” It's true! Apples have high nutritional value and make for an extremely healthy snack. The peel alone contains antioxidants that help reduce damaged cells and fight diseases. Apples are also fat, sodium, and cholesterol free.

Did you know that there are 7,500 varieties of apples grown throughout the world? They can come in a variety of shapes, flavors, and colors including all shades of red, green, and yellow.

The apple can be eaten raw, cooked, baked, or juiced. Snack on your favorite variety (Red Delicious or Macintosh, perhaps?) and celebrate Eat a Red Apple Day!

December is National Fruit Cake Month & National Egg Nog Month

mages and text courtesy of MyPunchbowl.com" -- http://www.mypunchbowl.com/

History for December 1 1835 - Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales. 1913 - The first drive-in automobile service station opened, in Pittsburgh, PA. 1942 - In the U.S. nationwide gasoline rationing went into effect. 1969 - The U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II. 1982 - Epic Records released the album "Thriller" by Michael Jackson. 1990 - British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel finally met under the English Channel. 1991 - Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.

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"Life is what we are alive to. It is not length but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness, kindness, purity, love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hope is to be all but dead."

--Maltbie D. Babcock