12/17/2025
"Most would agree that the holiday season intends to promote feelings of joy, goodwill, and peace. Somehow the inevitable mixture of stress, overeating, and long hours work their ingredients to the original blueprint. A time of beauty and good cheer ends up partnered with reduced function and performance. A heartbreaking holiday fact surfaces every holiday season. More heart attacks around on Christmas and New Year's than any other days of the year. The Journal of Circulation states the highest number of annual cardiac deaths occur on Christmas Day, followed by December 26th and New Year's Day."