Halloween: Sugar Fest or Celtic Ghost Hunt?

Traditionally, Halloween is the day when children (And some adults) accumulate enough sugar in their Halloween treats to tide them through to the Christmas season when a new sugar harvest miraculously appears to tide them over to Valentine’s Day. Note to parents: Christmas season gives us a different kind of sugar, usually disguised in the […]

The real history of halloween

  Question: What do National Chocolate Day, National Candy Corn Day and National Caramel Apple Day have in common? That’s right; they all occur during ‘National Blood Sugar Awareness Week’ or as some call it, Halloween. Halloween is the time we get to don a costume and pretend to be a character from the movies, […]

refined sugar; friend or faux friend?

  Yearly, America produces 35 million pounds of: A, second hand spit from smokeless tobacco B, Weight gain from soda in Miami high schools C, Candy Corn The average American consumes between 3 and 4 pounds of candy over Halloween. This equals the sugar they’ll get from an average day’s consumption of café Cubano.. Eating […]

A window of normalcy in Washington? Don’t bet on it

Can we look forward to government lurching like Frankenstein to the next ‘brink’ as rhetoric tones down and what passes for a temporary normalcy descends on Washington DC? “If we have to look forward to incessant bickering over details every few months from the Democrats, let them move to a more stable country like Somalia” […]