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How Far Do You Have To Walk To Burn Off Halloween Candy?

By on October 31, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Uncategorized

  Here’s a different perspective on Halloween candy — how much walking will it take to work off the calories in each piece? Here are some of the calculations from walking.com:          1 Fun Size candy bar (Snickers, Milky Way, Butterfingers, etc. comes to 80 calories. You will need to walk 0.8 [...]

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Really, How Many Calories Are In That Piece Of Candy?

By on October 29, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Shopping, Cooking, Baking, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

It might help a bit with Halloween candy mooching if you have some information about the calories in those seemingly innocent little mini bars of candy.  A lot of adults care — some don’t — and most kids could care less about calories. One night of candy overload isn’t going to break the bank.  You [...]

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Guess How Many Calories Are In A Trick Or Treat Bag

By on October 28, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

What do you think:  3500, 5000, 7500???  Keep in mind that it takes 3500 calories (above your daily caloric needs to gain a pound. A public heath expert estimated that, on average, a child in the US collects between 3,500 and 7,000 candy calories on Halloween night. To burn off 7000 calories, a one hundred [...]

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3 Tips To Avoid Pre-Halloween Sugar Overload

By on October 24, 2012 in Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Shopping, Cooking, Baking

Halloween conjures up images of ghosts, ghouls, witches – and candy corn, tootsie rolls, snickers, and kit-kats.  The Halloween costumes vary depending on what’s trendy – and the Halloween candy varies depending on what’s on sale, what you buy, what you like or dislike, and what makes it’s way into the house in trick or [...]

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Do You Swipe Candy From Your Kid’s Trick Or Treat Bag?

By on October 19, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating with Family and Friends, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

If you do, you can start shedding your guilt because you’re certainly not alone. Let’s put it another way:  Is it almost a foregone conclusion that there’s Halloween candy in your future? The candy assault on your senses is pretty hard to escape.   It’s everywhere in glowing Technicolor on shelf after shelf in big box stores, [...]

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Why Is A Carved Pumpkin A Jack-o’-Lantern?

By on October 17, 2012 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Shopping, Cooking, Baking

The Legend of The Jack-O’-Lantern  As the story goes, there was a miserable old drunk named Stingy Jack.   He liked to play tricks on his family, friends — even the Devil —  and he tricked the Devil into climbing up an apple tree.   Once the Devil was up in the tree, Stingy put crosses around [...]

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How Many Calories Were In That Trick Or Treat Bag?

By on November 1, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

A public heath expert has estimated that, on average, a child in the US collects between 3,500 and 7,000 candy calories on Halloween night. She says that to burn off 7000 calories, a one hundred pound child would have to walk for almost 44 hours or play full-court basketball for 14.5 hours. With 31% of [...]

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A Spooky Jack-o’-Lantern Tale

By on October 28, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Shopping, Cooking, Baking

A Jack-o’-Lantern Legend The Jack-O’-Lantern comes from a legend that goes back hundreds of years in Irish history. As the story goes, a miserable old drunk named Stingy Jack, who liked to play tricks on his family, friends, and even the Devil, tricked the Devil into climbing up an apple tree.   Stingy Jack then put [...]

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How Much Walking Do You Need To Do To Walk Off Halloween Candy?

By on October 27, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Here’s another way to think about Halloween candy — how much walking will it take to work off the calories in each piece? These are some of the calculations from walking.com: 1 Fun Size candy bar (Snickers, Milky Way, Butterfingers, etc. comes to 80 calories. You will need to walk 0.8 miles, 1.29 kilometers, or [...]

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How Much Halloween Candy Will You End Up Eating?

By on October 25, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Is it almost a foregone conclusion that there’s Halloween candy in your future?  It’s pretty hard to escape because it’s everywhere –  on desks, in restaurants, even in my veterinarian’s office in a nice purple bowl with a dog bone painted on the side. Halloween and the week afterward accounts for about 5% of all [...]

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