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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Halloween Candy Guidelines for Obese Children
With Halloween right around the corner, there are sure to be plenty of parents that are concerned about the amount of candy their children eat. In fact, they may even be concerned about eating the candy themselves! Here are some healthy alternatives to hand out when children come to your door, and for the parents, here are some ways to cut down on the amount of candy your children eat.
Healthy Alternatives
1. Give out water bottles. All that walking can make kids dehydrated.
2. Pass out sugar-free gum. Gum with Xylitol limits calorie consumption because children cannot eat high-calorie chocolate when they are busy chewing.
3. Sugar-free hard candies are preferable to chocolate because they contain no fat and fewer calories.
4. Granola or protein bars are very filling healthy choices.
5. If you really want to hand out chocolate, choose small “fun-size” candy bars that contain less fat and fewer calorie than others.
6. Consider snack alternatives such as fruit strips, fig bars, mini-boxes of raisins or nuts, fruit juice boxes, packets of sugar-free hot chocolate mix, snack-size bags of animal crackers, pretzels or cracker and cheese packs.
7. Hand out single-serve, 100-calorie snack packets, which are gaining popularity and becoming readily available.
8. Pass out non-perishable, non-food goodies like temporary tattoos, Halloween-themed pencils and stickers, bubbles, vampire teeth, small cans of Play-Doh, noise-makers, spider rings, etc. There are many online websites that sell enormous bags of these inexpensive toys.
9. Hand out money. If you don’t get too many children stopping at your house, give out nickels, dimes or quarters.
10. Distribute specially discounted certificates from local fast-food restaurants, such as coupons for a free hamburger or drink.
Parental Guidelines
1. Feed your children a healthy dinner before they trick-or-treat. If they are not hungry, it reduces overindulgence.
2. Limit the amount of candy your children can eat while trick-or-treating.
3. Stash the candy where the kids cannot find it and then ration it out. Give them one or two pieces after dinner or pack it in their lunchboxes as a dessert substitute.
4. Limit your own consumption by purchasing candy you don’t like so you will not be tempted to eat the leftover treats.
5. Encourage your child to donate half of the candy to a local women’s shelter or child abuse charity. Have your child accompany you to make the donation.
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