No Candy On Halloween?
Yale Study Suggests Toys As Alternative
POSTED: 11:56 a.m. EDT October 18, 2003
UPDATED: 12:00 p.m. EDT October 18, 2003
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -- Dieticians who want you to consider a healthier alternative to candy this Halloween may have found the answer.
Health department officials say the "trick" is to dump the candy completely in favor is things like plastic snakes, spiders and even pencils.
The advice is based on a Yale University study that says kids will choose the toys over candy.
In a recent test of that Yale study, Newschannel 5's Kathy Reynolds visited a fourth-grade classroom and discovered that almost twice as many kids did, in fact, choose the toys over the candy.
The attraction to the inedible is encouraging to dieticians like Jerie Reid.
"That says to us that people don't have to feel bad about withholding candy on Halloween," Reid said.
Reid said that parents should consider that a typical Halloween bucket of candy has around 5,000 calories, but a bucket of toys is guilt-free, and could be a weapon against childhood obesity.
yeah so give the big kids all the muthafuckin candy yo. =]
i opt for halloween whistles and yo-yos. a buck at the dollar store for a package.
Hope everyone has a good week.
Mia
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