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Did you know that Christmas shopping is even worse for our health than we previously thought?
Perhaps it's the added stress this year - and the thought ofour credit cards being refused at the tills --- but, according to aninternet retail survey, the incidence of hypertension during thefestive shopping season is on the up.
Christmas shopping increased blood pressure to dangerous levels in 50 percent of shoppers. This can lead to hypertension, which can increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and kidney problems. Even low levels of hypertension are linked with migraines, panic attacks and osteoporosis. Heart rates increased by an average of 10 percent during Christmas shopping.
In the study of 16 men and 16 women, men had the worst spikes in heart rate during a 90-minute spree.
Samuel Thompson, 30 years old:" I had to buy five items and had an hour and a half to buy them. No fun no sweet--or so I thought."
"Normally, I know exactly what I want to get and do it as quick as possible. But in this test you were demand to make on-the-spot decisions, which makes it more stressful."
"Lack of time and the crowds were the biggest pressure points. I got frustrated by other people slowing me down by stopping to chat in the street. And I could feel myself sweating in queues. Everything took longer than planned."
Dr Turner's verdict:" Sam's heart rate was good at the start but it had almost doubled by the end. Combined with his hiked systolic blood pressure--up by nearly 15 per cent--it could put him in line for stroke. Systolic blood pressure relates to the pumping out of blood by the heart."
Men suffer twice as much as women, apparently, and are,therefore, in greater danger of dying on the High Street in the coming weeks.
Remember, a husband is for life and not just for Christmas.
* Original address of this China gift post: China Gift and Fine Arts & Crafts in China
With the communication and blending of Chinese and Western cultures, "Christmas" – the major holiday in Western countries also have entered into Chinese people’s life and become more and more popular in China. So what’s a suitable Christmas present to give away has also turned into an annual trouble. In China, couples of lovers are the main stream who inclined to enjoy annual Christmas holiday, with ulterior motives to deepen the love of each other, then as same as other important holidays in China, the Christmas was treated as Valentine's Day by numerous lovers.
It's a God's truth for lovers that they will not let any opportunities of expressing love away, then this year many dear diaisticate girls has throw out the task to their boyfriends early ”what Christmas gift you to give me? and I will not accept ordinaries”. So the boyfriend has to rack his brains to search a Christmas gift which is uncommon for his lover. At same time, as the girlfriend you should to take care of your boyfriend too, and you should not consider yourself merely, it’s time to take consideration for what Christmas gift is your boyfriend’s favorite. It seems there are not only sweets in love, but also some small happily tortures in it.
Without further ado, let’s talk about the top 10 Christmas gifts welcomed by lovers. The common features of these Christmas presents are DIY, unique personality thus to cater for her or his feelings of been respected and cherished monopoly by you. Certainly we also have taken the popularity of the presents into account, and the prices of these recommended gifts are all less than one hundred Yuan. Those gifts that priced for several hundreds or more than one thousand Yuan are not involved in our recommendation scope, you could find them everywhere. As they are all cheap, so you can consider a variety of selection, and a well-chosen assortment is just a real bump！
1st. Personalized DIY Doll.
To make a doll imaged with her or his figure, and on which to highlight her or his characteristics and clothing. When your love saw this special article, and listened to you talking about the hard process of the doll manufacturing, she or he will be bound to be moved much. Ceramic, glass, and so on materials are all good choices.
2nd. Pajamas
Pajamas is just one kind of universal gifts. Because it’s unnecessary to consider too much for the size when you are to choose a pajamas as a present, unlike an outerwear which always requires for a particular size, it will be ok as long as the size of which is tolerable. Moreover, the pajamas is one kind of underclothes and it could let your lover think of you when she or he is go to sleep.
3rd. Silk Scarf
Silk scarf is the best embellishment in the winter. It could always match you’re your lover’s clothing, and make your winter full of warmth.
4th. Fuwa
The mascot of 2008 Olympics Fuwa are very cute, if your lover is a lively girl, I guess she will be bound to favorite with these lovely four dolls, and you should to select the largest stuffed set that made of plush, oh, it maybe spent your more, ok, also you can choose only one of them. Fuwa are produced by Chinese people who had taken a great deal of efforts into, so it certainly will be meaningful.
5th. Bracelet
A beautiful bracelet, and it is best a bracelet made of two chains which are closely entangled with each other. Send it to your girl, and she can wear it everyday, when she see the beautiful bracelet, she will think of her sweet lover. I think it’s a good choice that could make her eyes brighten the joy produced could be lasting long.
6th. Blessing Note in Love Wall
Go to the Love Wall and spend ￥10 make a blessing note for her/him, and write your sweet pledges for your thick and faithful love on it, The love note in the Love Wall could be stayed on permanently and it is a good witness for your love, and after 10 or 8 years passed, you two could back and have a look at it, doesn’t it are full of memories and significant？
7th. Stationery
Send a fine stationery gift to your boyfriend: A high-level notebook with packing costs about $16, and a high level gel pen with packing costs about $12, a pen $25, attached with a simple greeting card shall costs about $2-5.
8th. Health Food
If you want give away health foods as this year’s Christmas gift, you could send men AngLi LP (About $90), and send women pearl powder(about $60-70), nutrition wine (about $100) for elders, and children will more enjoyed with a large box of Denmark cookies. Nowadays giving away health foods is always a right idea, because nowadays most of peoples are all pay attention to their health!
9th. MP3 or a Recording Pen
You should make it through what is her like before sending out your Christmas gift, you could see about what she said, and the girls sometimes will implied, intentional or not. Put the songs she or he liked or your special words of blessing in the machine and play them out on the spot.
10th. Romantic Dinner
Taking a dinner in McDonald, KFC or a western restaurant who branded with steaks with her, especially a steak set course, it only costs about $30 per set and in which there are red wine, steaks and bread, but also in most occasions there’s an extra Christmas gift ready for you, and the romantic moods in dinner will certainly improve the loves between yours.
In the view of general consumers, there is still a long time from Christmas. But for those flower distributors and designers of floral decorations, it's time to take it for consideration that to ready what kind of flowers, gifts and craft products to meet this important holiday.
From the traditional style holiday products to those fashion and avant-garde flowers and floral gifts, the suppliers have prepared all decoration materials for the flower shop operators to "enrich" their gift shops, and to make them become more festive and more attractive for their customers.
Mr. Shen is the assistant manager in a silk art products company, in his view, the main fashion trend in this Christmas season is the floral arts & crafts products with traditional art styles and patterns, "the reason is", said Mr. Shen, the fierce competition, fast-paced life, as well as those frequent harassments of those unexpected incidents make more and people in cities inclined to favor with the feeling of "reviewing upon the past times", so many goods with traditional styles and flavors once again become the public focus of attention. 
BC Home Decor Crafts Ltd. has prepared 7 series of themed silk products for this year's Christmas, which includes gorgeous and elegant floral products, small and cute toy soldiers, as well as glittered tin wares that in their origin colors. All these gift products are themed with 'back to home' and to produce a feeling that cozy, warm and comfortable for the customers. The gift products also include peace doves in traditional forms, various forms of plastic plants, such as cedar, holly, and so on. Due to Mr. Shen introduction, although using plastic plants is baned with most religions, but as modern peoples have pay more and more attention to the environmental protection, so some manufacturers have started to using silk materials to produce the holiday gifts and decoration products, such as "Cedar", "holly" and other holiday necessities to meet this special demand and psychology of customers.
There are another main trend in this year's Christmas gifts fashion, that is birdhouse, some of the birdhouses are made of materials in same quality and specifications, for example, wood block that printed with traditional holiday colors or be wrapped with galvanized iron sheets. And the birdhouse's sales season would begin from the fall and till to the Christmas, it is one kind of long-term sale products in gift shops.
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Kris is the marketing manager in Floral Season Home Fashions Co., Ltd., she is much experienced and deep influenced with the gifts and flowers fashion trends in recent years, "Ten years ago, warm and freedom air colors and art styles are always the main stream in the holidays, but now, some traditional and mass popular style floral gift products have regained places in the holiday market, and again become people’s favorite.
This year, Wellken Crafts Group Limited will launch 5-6 series gifts for the Christmas. However, as view the whole trend of Christmas gifts, through continued improvement on the traditional goods, there will appear many kinds of popular gifts in multi-styles in this year's Christmas market. So, this year's Christmas is still worth looking for by those gift dealers. The company's designers have selected out some blueberries with deeper color, matched with suited brass plates, adhered on which edges there are imitated snowflakes or ice crystals, and among them frozen fruits and berries are used as embellishments. This gift product will act as the main and featured product of Wellken company's series Christmas gifts in this year. In addition, they also have prepared a number of natural wooden gifts produced by villages in countryside or suburbs, thus to meet the demand of those wooden favorites.
Different with the two floral gift dealers mentioned before, Janet, acted as the assistant manager of Taixing Foreign Trade Co., Ltd. always adheres to her own point of view, who is all through seeking unique artistic styles that different with traditional art patterns. Janet had been visited many countries and has obtained a lot of useful information and inspirations, she has also collected a number of unique and peculiar products raw materials.
"I have been to China, the Philippines and Thailand, I found that each place has its unique artistic style, I have benefited much from all these fine things. Recently, I found some accessories like beads and feather products could create unexpected art effect, so I decided to apply them with our products, I believe these small things will bring us different feelings for this winter
The main promoted Christmas gift of Taixing Foreign Trade designed by Janet is a high-grade senior home decoration named "peacock jewelry tree", it used with small beads colored in purple, pink, amaranth and dark green, and flashing peacock plumes as raw materials, finally shaped into a model of Christmas tree,
"Small beads always bring people pretty feelings and make them thought of lovely things. Through carefully process feather could shines with natural and bright colors, and consequently its artistic taste been increased greatly.
Through contacting with the florists, Janet also had ideas of using fresh seedlings and plants to produce gifts, for example, using small beads or mini ornaments that featured with Victorian styles to deck the flowers and plants. And during the products sales Janet also found, those hot welcomed gifts are always matched well with the color of gold. "In fact, the best match with gold is the color of ivory white, and which has the best view effect". Keep an eye on at any moment to watch what color and style of gifts are welcomed and inclined by the customers is very important to the gift manufacturers and dealers.
Taking account for the special condition and importance of the Christmas in people's hearts, any merchant will not give up this distinct shopping opportunity easily, so each of them are all try their best to design and produce different and unique Christmas gifts and decorations, and wish to bring a satisfied end for all year's busyness.
Surrounded with rich and dazzling Christmas gifts and decorations, and it is so difficult to move your eyes away, well then have you been ready for?
