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The Best and Worst Halloween Candy for Kids
MSN Health ^ | By the Editors of Best Life

Posted on 10/30/2008 7:40:43 AM PDT by Oyarsa

With so many American children struggling with obesity, you may not find joy in handing out globules of empty Halloween calories.

The typical jack-o'-lantern bucket holds 250 small chocolate bars (about 9,000 calories), and 20 percent of kids eat every last piece they collect. If you don't want to be the neighborhood Scrooge who's giving out apples and dental floss—or worse, pulling toilet paper from your trees the next day—try these tricks to treat their sweet tooths without expanding their waistlines.

(Excerpt) Read more at health.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: candy; grinchstolehalloween; halloween; halloweenies; nannystate
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To: Buckeye_Hoosier
I’m handing out almost every type of candy on the “worst” list.

Me too-M&M's (both kinds), Skittles and Snickers. I also have Milk Duds which aren't on either list but I would imagine they would be on the bad list as well. I just buy what I like and then if there's any left over, I give it out to my students so I don't over indulge! Since they are poor college students, they tend to be happy with whatever I bring them.

81 posted on 10/30/2008 8:40:57 AM PDT by slugbug (Life is short and so am I...)
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To: netmilsmom
In our house, they get one hour to eat themselves sick. (Dad too) Then it’s swept and sent into Daddy’s work.

At least that's what he tells you.!

82 posted on 10/30/2008 8:42:42 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: evets

83 posted on 10/30/2008 8:45:58 AM PDT by netmilsmom ( Obama And Osama both have friends who bombed the Pentagon)
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To: Oyarsa
Looks like you succeeded!
We're having a blast! Thanks!
84 posted on 10/30/2008 8:48:25 AM PDT by netmilsmom ( Obama And Osama both have friends who bombed the Pentagon)
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To: angcat

My (welfare mom, general lowlife) niece and her seven foot tall husband (also lowlife and Wiccan) husband went trick or treating one year. (they did not have a child yet)

They were highly offended when people turned them away.

Typical Libs.


85 posted on 10/30/2008 8:51:38 AM PDT by netmilsmom ( Obama And Osama both have friends who bombed the Pentagon)
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To: zeebee
Best Halloween giveout... Not candy...

I once had to give out nearly a 1000 of these babies... after two years it became too much a pain to deal with... gave a bunch to the church function and let them deal with the kiddos.

86 posted on 10/30/2008 8:56:11 AM PDT by LowOiL (Tagline: Optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: Oyarsa
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87 posted on 10/30/2008 8:59:30 AM PDT by usmcobra (There are 665,000,000 reasons why Obama should show his eligibility to be president!)
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To: usmcobra
That could be healthier than you think:

The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure (Life Science ^ | 10/28/08)

88 posted on 10/30/2008 9:02:24 AM PDT by weegee (Global Climate Change? Fight Global Socialist CHANGE. vote NO on Obama-Biden.)
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To: workerbee
Candy corn gets a bad rap, IMO. In small doses it’s fine. A perfectly respectable filler for the candy dish. I like the kind with the pseudo-chocolate bottom layer.

Only if it's Brach's. Every other brand is gross.

89 posted on 10/30/2008 9:11:54 AM PDT by al_c (Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
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To: Madame Dufarge
I just usually hand out cigarettes and those little nip sized bottles of whiskey, since I’m concerned about the obesity epidemic.

LOL... can't ....... stop ..... laughing.......

90 posted on 10/30/2008 9:25:25 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Don't worry about the polls - GO VOTE!)
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To: Madame Dufarge

91 posted on 10/30/2008 9:41:28 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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To: aomagrat

True but they taste better with near-beer thank you.


92 posted on 10/30/2008 9:48:44 AM PDT by Vaduz (and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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To: AppyPappy

“Actually, we don’t have trick or treaters. They don’t like to climb.”

Treehouse?


93 posted on 10/30/2008 10:29:14 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

Mountain


94 posted on 10/30/2008 11:08:00 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: netmilsmom

Thank you for the cartoon. I’m laughing so hard I have tears streaming down my face!


95 posted on 10/30/2008 1:14:53 PM PDT by coop71 (Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
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To: evets

These never get eaten. They just sit in a bowl until the next Halloween where they are passed out to the next crop of kids.

This candy company that made these actually went out of business in 1946. But the candy still gets passed around.

96 posted on 10/30/2008 2:05:07 PM PDT by uglybiker (1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d 2 g3t l41d)
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To: gathersnomoss

Yes. It was around the same time that I collected pop bottles to buy my treats after school.


97 posted on 10/31/2008 10:00:27 AM PDT by this is my country
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