Life Transformations Personal Trainer, Molly Wichman, in Lee’s Summit love to share healthy tips. Check out these great trainer tips for a Healthy Halloween.
Ghosts, goblins and haunted houses may scare you. If there’s one thing that scares me about Halloween, it’s the candy. Packed full of sugar, artificial colors and flavors, chemical additives, and high fructose corn syrup, Halloween candy makes my skin crawl more than being blindfolded and sticking my hand into a bowl full of cold spaghetti! As a kid, I loved candy, of course. As a mom, I wish it didn’t exist. But I believe that depriving my daughter of the Halloween experience, candy included, would cause more harm than a couple of days of gluttony.
Fortunately, there are options. If you’re going to be treating trick-or-treaters this Halloween,
consider stocking your plastic pumpkin pail with non candy options.
- Halloween Rings
- Temporary Tattoos
- Stickers
- Vampire Teeth
- Granola Bars
- Raisins
Now, of course kids will get LOTS of candy for Halloween. It is up to the parents to set limits. Limit the amount of candy eaten at a time to prevent a candy overload.