Heidi Stevens: We don’t need to downhill ski for 9 hours to burn holiday calories. We need to stop demonizing food.

A delightful meme is making the rounds on social media, just in time for the diet industry’s annual holiday finger-wagging. It skewers the ridiculous advice that shows up every year, as predictable as a mall Santa, reminding us how much exercise it takes to counteract the naughty calories in a typical holiday meal. (“Nine hours of casual downhill skiing” will forever be my favorite, courtesy of a Huffington Post slideshow on how to burn 3,000 calories — the average consumed at Thanksgiving, apparently.) The meme looks like a poster, with a headline banner that reads, “How much exercise does it…

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