Read some highlights from the December 2009 edition of Reader's Digest magazine.
Top 10 Winter Driving Tips
What you need to know about on-road safety in hazardous weather conditions.
Pimp My Stuffing
What's your best stuffing recipe? Share it with the rest of the Reader's Digest community!
Save Your Energy
If your utility bills were high last winter, you may be able to lower them this year by making some smart alterations to your home now. Being energy efficient doesn’t have to cost a lot of money—it’s possible to make a big difference for very little outlay.
What Your Pet Wants for Christmas
Out of ideas for pet presents? Check out our handy guide to the most practical, impractical, and generous gifts for the animal (or animal lover) on your list.
Decadent Recipe Makeovers
We've trimmed the fat -- but not the great taste -- from these easy dishes. And while they still won't pass for diet food, they're healthier than regular holiday fare.
Pick up your copy of the magazine today and enjoy the following articles:
- A Good Deed a Day: Writer and mother Lisa Bendall discovers that, even in the most hectic of lives, there is room for daily altruism.
- The Kindness of Strangers: Who benefits more from kindness, the giver or the receiver? An unusual encounter on the streets of New York.
- Stop the Spin: New treatments and devices are bringing hope to sufferers of vertigo and chronic dizziness. Click here to read more
- BOOK CHOICE: After the Horror: In her award-winning book, Mariatu Kamara recounts the story of her survival in war-torn Sierra Leone, the move to her new home, Canada, and her continuing attempts to help the brutalized in her homeland.
- Retirement Refuge: What happens to chimps after they’ve been used for years as lab subjects? One Canadian facility provides a safe haven for these research veterans.
- Art From the Edge: From Van Gogh and onward, art has played a key therapeutic role for sufferers of mental illness. A Vancouver program helps patients make sense of their lives—and find purpose.
- The Bint Formula: On a trek that took her to Africa, the author finds her grandfather’s lasting legacy—the continent’s signature scent—in a market in Sudan.
- The Pursuit of Idleness: Author Nick Bantock’s struggle to escape today’s high-tech rat race.
- Learning to Love: In an incredible turnaround, a violent Romanian orphan, raised without affection, learns to unclench his fists.
- The Story That Saved My Life: Setting out to be a test case in our two-tiered health-care system, the author instead winds up going under the knife.
- Questions About Religion: How well do you know world religions?
Editor's Picks
Food - 8 Out of the Ordinary Pork Recipes
Tired of pork chops and applesauce? Try one of these eight inventive recipes. Some of them swap apples for other fruit pairings like figs, apricots, or...
Home & Garden - 5 Things To Do with Spices
Got a rack full of spices you never use? Put them to work outside the kitchen: wash your hair, deter pests, freshen your shoes, and more!
Food - One-Pot Suppers
5:00 pm: leave the office, hop on a crowded bus, subway, or clogged expressway. 6:00pm: home at last, to a starving family, you try to think up something...
