A big Thanksgiving feast isn’t exactly the model of heart-healthy eating for most people.

Cardiologists know it and some of them indulge a bit, too, on this one occasion.

“If you deprive yourself for Thanksgiving, then likely the next day or the day after, you’re just going to binge eat everything you feel like you missed out on,” Dr. Marc Eisenberg, a clinical cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York, previously told TODAY.com.

“I tell most people: Just enjoy yourself.”

Still, there are certain foods heart doctors limit on the holiday.

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