Q: What's better for the planet — fake Christmas trees or the real thing?

A: There's no easy answer.

Beyond the candy canes, marshmallow snowmen, and Chanukah gelt is a collection of holiday treats that puts the recipient's health first. Gift giving, too, can be more about wellness and less about another unnecessary sweater.

MSNBC does its readers right with a healthy holiday gift guide. Organic fruit tops the list as the ultimate edible present. Gotfruit has an organic fruit of the month club. Give someone up to 12 months of organic oranges, strawberries, apples, pears, kiwis or mangoes. Old school Harry and David also offers an organic option to its famous fruit-of-the-month club.

I gave her a chance, I honestly did. From what I hear, she’s actually a very nice person, down-to-earth, no attitude. Fun to hang out with.

So it makes me feel bad to say this, but I tried to watch Rachel Ray’s “Holiday Entertaining in 60” special on the Food Network the other night, and I found her almost unwatchable. The “Rachel Ray Sucks” community shares my sentiments, evidently.

Her voice is like 80 grit sandpaper—medium coarse, just husky enough to be slightly grating. Then there’s the hyper gesticulating, like a wind-up toy on Red Bull. And her perkiness is downright oppressive; a friend of mine even finds her breasts annoyingly perky, and that’s coming from a straight man.