Czech Christmas Dinner is One of World’s Healthiest

The Czech Christmas meal weighs in at 1940 calories, coming in at 3rd-lowest among the 28 countries surveyed.

For the record, the Treated.com study uses the following benchmark for Czech Christmas dinner:

The study also notes that no alcohol is served, which may not be entirely accurate, at least going by personal experience.

Only Japan and Lithuania rated lower calories. In Lithuania, the traditional Christmas meal consists of herring, eel, fried dumplings, sauerkraut, cranberry pudding, and more.

The countries with the highest-calorie Christmas meals? Not much of a surprise: the US and UK top the list, coming in at 3291 and 3189 calories, respectively.

In the UK, the study’s traditional Christmas meal consists of prawn cocktail, Yorkshire pudding, roast turkey, beef, and gammon, pigs in blankets, Christmas pudding, mince pie, and more.

In the US, the traditional meal includes roast turkey and ham, mashed potatoes, cornbread stuffing, creamed spinach, eggnog, and chocolate fudge.

Interestingly, the study revealed a correlation between the number calories in the meals and the number of public holidays in each country.

The Czech Republic and Lithuania each celebrate a total of four public holidays over the Christmas period (December 24-26, and New Year’s Day), while Finland and Iceland, which also rank as low-calorie meals, have a total of five holidays over this period.

The US and France, which comes in with the third-highest number of calories, only celebrate two public holidays over the period, while the UK has three.