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” […]