Christmas Cocktails: Dr. Manny's Tips for Responsible Holiday Drinking

As we head into the official holiday week, many of us have already enjoyed our fair share of fun, food and drinking--and many of us may also be feeling the early effects on our bodies of all that extra imbibing and ingesting.

But the office parties and Christmas events we've been attending all month are really just a warm up for a week that for most of us kicks off with lots of eating with family, and ends with lots of drinking with friends as we ring in the new year. Our shopping, decorating, planning and traveling has come to a close, and decompressing from the build up of holiday stress can itself motivate us to over-indulge.