Many of the popular celebratory customs associated in various countries with Christmas have pre-Christian or secular themes and origins. Popular modern customs of the holiday include gift giving, Christmas music and caroling, an exchange of Christmas cards, church celebrations, a special meal, and the display of various decorations, including Christmas trees, lights, nativity scenes, garlands, wreaths, mistletoe, and holly. In addition, several closely related and often interchangeable figures, known as Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas and Kris Kringle among other names, are associated with bringing gifts to children during the Christmas season and have their own body of traditions and lore. Because gift-giving and many other aspects of the Christmas festival involve heightened economic activity among both Christians and non-Christians, the holiday has become a significant event and a key sales period for retailers and businesses. The economic impact of Christmas is a factor that has grown steadily over the past few centuries in many regions of the world.
What do people do on Christmas Day?
People celebrate Christmas Day in many ways. In the days or even weeks before Christmas Day, many people decorate their homes and gardens with lights, Christmas trees and much more. It is common to organize a special meal, often consisting of turkey and a lot of other festive foods, for family or friends and exchange gifts with them. Children, in particular, often receive a lot of gifts from their parents and other relatives and the mythical figure Santa Claus. This has led to Christmas Day becoming an increasingly commercialized holiday, with a lot of families spending a large part of their income on gifts and food.
Many Sunday schools, churches and communities organize special events. These can include decorating the neighborhood or a shopping mall, putting up a Christmas tree and planning a Nativity display, concert or performance. A lot of plays and songs have a aspect of Christmas as a theme. Some groups arrange meals, shelter or charitable projects for people without a home or with very little money.
But Diabetics:Take Care While Celebrating Christmas Day.
However, for diabetics, due to their own specific illness condition, there are some aspects that should be paid enough attention to so as to pass a happy and safe holiday. A lifelong disease as Diabetes is, diet controlling, proper medications and prevention of over fatigue should be obeyed at any time. While looking forward and preparing for the Christmas Day, Diabetics should take enough care of themselves. Some tips are shown as follows in the hope of helping you control your diabetes better.
First, select your foods carefully.
Second, keep in positive mood
Third, avoid staying up at night and over fatigue
Conclusion:
Actually, for diabetics, what's dangerous is not diabetes itself, but the potential diabetic complications in overall blood vessels, such as diabetic foot, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic nephropathy, coronary diseases and brain accident. Sometimes, the early signs of certain complications are really hard to be detected, such as blurred vision, shivering and tinging(a symptoms of diabetic neuropathy), proteinuria(symptom of kidney disease), skin itching, etc. In this way, patients usually miss the opportunity to reverse the disease and prevent the disease getting severer.
Controlling high blood sugar from all aspects(including proper diet, medications and exercise) and keeping alert of all the complications should be always attached importance to for diabetics.
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