Eat a Red Apple Day
"The taste for apples is one of the earliest and most natural of inclinations," according to Botanical.com. You've had them sliced, coated in cinnamon and nutmeg and baked in a flaky crust for Thanksgiving. Maybe you ate a caramel-covered one on Thanksgiving. On Dec. 1 enjoy the natural goodness of a plain, red apple. Eating red apples boosts your vitamin C, reduces belly fat and cholesterol and protects against cardiovascular disease. Munch on a fresh Macintosh, Macoun or Red Delicious.
Basketball Anniversary
Combine an understandable need for indoor physical education with a couple of peach baskets and soccer balls and you have a new sport: basketball. James Naismith is credited with creating basketball on Dec. 1, 1891, when he set up a new indoor game at the International YMCA Training School at Springfield, Mass. for students. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame honors the sports, its history and its inventor.
* Grab some friends, head outdoors (weather permitting) or find an indoor gym where you can shoot some hoops.
* Support local high school basketball teams by attending their games.
* Start counting down the days until the delayed start of the 2011-12 NBA season.
World AIDS Day
The World Health Organization first declared Dec. 1 as World AIDS Day in 1988. The annual observance is "an international day of awareness and education about AIDS," according to World AIDS Day. How to get involved:
* Participate in a Bake Aware -- download the Bake Aware fundraising pack.
* Host a local event to observe the HIV/AIDS Awareness Days.
* Take individual action by getting tested for HIV or practice safer methods to prevent HIV advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
* Attend an Observe Day With(Out) Art, increasing public awareness through visual arts, because "AIDS is forever" according to Visual AIDS.
Marie Tussaud 250th Birth Anniversary
If you've always been equally fascinated and disturbed by wax figures, there's good reason. Wax artist Marie Grosholtz Tussaud, born Dec. 1, 1761, made a living during the French Revolution by giving the people what they wanted. She created death masks using corpses of those executed. She took her waxworks on a traveling show and eventually settled in London where she displayed her waxworks.
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