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Did you know that a single gift can make more than one person smile this holiday season? A unique and festive holiday card could be the very best investment for those looking to reach out to loved ones while helping heal the world.

The Global Dental Relief (GDR) program has created a variety of greeting cards for the holiday season 2012. Each has a different message to share holiday pleasantries and news of the donation given to the program. Each of the $20 cards provides enough funding to the program to give two children the necessary dental health care in notoriously poverty-ridden areas, such as India, Nepal, Guatemala, and other third world nations.

There are also other levels of donation that can be given and for each ten dollars spent on the holiday cards, a child will receive the help he or she needs. The $20, $50 cards are exceptional, but for those looking to maximize their gift giving efforts, a $30 card and scarf can be purchased as a set, as well as a box set of ten cards for $100. For $500, an entire class in one of the treatment areas will be treated.

It has been more than ten years since the GDR began offering free dental care to the children most in need. With more and more being learned about the impact dental health can have on other areas of the body, including the heart and brain, the need for dentists in impoverished areas is more important than ever.

For dental offices, businesses, and individuals that want to give the best possible gift this season – the gift of health and happiness – the GDR’s cards and gift sets cannot be beat.

For more information on what is available, continue reading the full article.

Ah, the old adage: everything in moderation.

If only life were really that simple; if only the upcoming holiday made it a bit simpler.

A researcher from the University of Alberta may have just squelched the hopes and plans of many Americans in regards to Halloween 2012.

Jennifer Argo’s study demonstrated just how difficult it would be for a person to stop after eating a single piece of the sweet and scrumptious holiday treats.

She published her findings in the Journal of Marketing, where she insisted that human behavior changes in an unfavorable way when presented with the small packages commonly seen this time of year.

Where one might feel that he or she is doing well by sticking with the smaller packaged items, in all actuality Argo says, people will tend to eat more of the same product when presented in this way.

Those, she adds, who are feeling particularly bad about their physical appearance at the time they are indulging a craving are even more likely to binge on the tiny treats.

This trend became even more apparent when the packaging made mention of a low calorie count or made the food visible through the wrapper.

While this is wonderful information for the marketing genius’s in the crowd, it should also serve as a warning to those who may be tempted by the large bowl of Halloween candy.

Remember the key word in that old adage – moderation!

For more information on the study and findings, continue reading the full article.

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