Christmas is a Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus This feast was created by the pope to promote Christianity and remove pagan festivals celebrated at the winter solstice

Traditions of Thanksgiving in Canada Like all the harvest festivals throughout history, the overt celebration of gratefulness of the Earth's bounteousness is through a fabulous feast Gathering up with the family for a day of enjoyment and fellowship is easier in Canada than in many other countries

It is a basic notion that during the 1600's, accurately in the year 1621, the English settlers and the Wampanoag Indians got together and shared a fantastic fall harvest feast to celebrate the bounty from the rich earth Today this celebratory feast is acknowledged to be one of the first Thanksgiving festivities in the early days of the colonies

The Cabbage Soup Diet is a "miracle" diet supposed to make you lose up to 10 pounds in a 7 days period and reserved to people who have only a few pounds to lose as it is a quick weight loss diet and that the risks to gain weight after having made the diet are high While this diet really works, eating cabbage soup each and every day, several times a day may and for an entire week, may end up tiring

Summertime is here and for those who have to lose some pounds and would like to wear their most beautiful bathing suit on the beach, it is time to think about starting a little diet Whether you have five or forty pounds to lose, the choice of the most healthy and effective diet is sometimes hard: there are hundreds of different diets methods and programmes out there, all with their pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages and the risk of gaining weight after the diet

Regarding the origins of the Cabbage Soup Diet, we know almost nothing, some people say that Cabbage soup Diet has been developed in the US hospitals while some others say that Belgian university hospitals created this type of diet - a friend of mine has been following this dieting method in a Belgian hospital fifteen years ago