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10/22/08--11:04: How many calories will your trick-or-treater eat? (chan 2151066)

Tweet The typical trick-or-treater collects 250 miniature candy bars and other sugary treats on Halloween night. That means a Jack-O-Lantern bucket holds about 9,000 calories, 200 grams of fat and 1,500 grams of sugar. Halloween is the unofficial start to the season of holiday overindulging. We eat as many as 5,000 calories on Thanksgiving Day. [...]

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10/28/08--09:49: Halloween scare: candy calorie count (chan 2151066)

Tweet A fun new quiz from AOL Health helps parents make calorie-conscious choices when buying Halloween candy or raiding their kids’ trick-or-treat loot. It will also spook you to learn the sugar and fat grams loaded in favorite treats. Here’s a preview: 16 Junior Mints contain 170 calories. One large York Peppermint Patty has 140 [...]

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10/28/08--13:08: The truth behind Halloween candy rumor (chan 2151066)

Tweet A mass “please pass it on” email is circulating to parents warning them against letting their kids eat chocolate candy coins. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued a recall earlier this month of Sherwood Pirate’s Gold candy because of melamine contamination. But the candy is not sold in the U.S. In California, the only [...]

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03/29/10--05:00: Mom’s marshmallow-smuggling gambit fails (chan 2151066)

Tweet The note was waiting for me inside my daughter’s lunchbox when I went to pick her up from preschool. Printed on a yellow handout, it began: “We wish to remind you of our NO sugar policy.” Stapled to the note was a Ziploc bag resembling one of those baggies in which police place evidence [...]

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12/28/10--06:00: Get rid of your holiday sweets now (chan 2151066)

Tweet I’ve got four days to get a head start on my New Year’s resolutions. Which I’ll cement with a libation Friday, while engaging in my foolproof stick-and-move strategy to ensure there’s no hangover. Step one toward getting back in shape (and shedding these 10 pounds of sympathy-pregnancy weight) is offloading all the holiday candy [...]

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03/28/11--16:56: Toxic Waste gum recalled because of lead (chan 2151066)

Tweet When you make a line of products called Toxic Waste, you’re really opening yourself up for criticism if quality-control issues arise. They have, for a second time, for the Indianapolis-based company called Candy Dynamics, which on Monday recalled some of its Toxic Waste Short Circuits Bubble Gum. One lot of the gum, which comes [...]

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10/11/11--06:00: Marijuana candy urges legalization (chan 2151066)

Tweet California voters refused to legalize marijuana last year, but it’s perfectly legal to buy candy that looks like the cannabis leaf. The ring pops, called ring pots, are flavored like sour apple. They also carry a message of advocacy, with “Legalize” written on the package. They contain sugar but no illegal drugs. In Orange [...]

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