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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1) A Healthier Halloween
2) A Healthy Recipe
3) A Healthy Eating Tip
4) Healthy Products and Services

We are approaching that time of year when even the most conscientious healthy eaters are challenged and tempted with cookies, candies, pies, cakes and other unhealthy goodies. Halloween is the start of the holiday season where many people are eating a lot more of those forbidden treats.

Did you know that the average child eats about 29 teaspoons of refined sugar every day? Sugar is known to cause the blues, mood swings and depression, as well as hyperactivity in children, dental caries and obesity. I would like to help you avoid the sugar blues with some healthy hints on how to reduce your sugar intake and still fully enjoy the spirit of the season.

On Halloween, our little "trick or treaters" get so much candy. It's not only the sugar that's so bad for them, but also artificial and natural flavors and the FD&C colors, most of which are derived from coal tar which is a carcinogen.

Here are five tips on how to reduce the sugar load:

1. Instead of candy, give penny toys, removable tatoos, stickers, pencils, erasers, trading cards, little notebooks, apples or mini boxes of raisins.

2. If you have little ones, have a party at your house and give toys, stickers and healthy snacks.

3. Let your kids dress up in their costumes and take them to a movie instead of trick or treating.

4. Let your kids dress up in their costumes and take them shopping for a special toy

5. If your kids do go out trick or treating, let them choose 5 candy treats from their treat bag. Allow them to eat only 1/day and throw the rest away. They'll probably forget about the candy after that.

Trail Mix

1 part raw sunflower seeds
1 part raw almonds
1 part raw cashew pieces
1 part organic raisins, or a combination of several different unsulfured, unsweetened dried fruit pieces, such as blueberries, cranberries or currants.

Combine in a zip lock plastic bag and shake to mix.

Before you buy any snack foods, read the label. If you're not already reading labels, you'll be surprised to see the number of ingredients in the item that don't sound like food ingredients. Many of these ingredients are unsafe or inadequately tested. Some even cause cancer.

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Healthy Eating Coaching
If you would like personal, one-on-one help to get yourself eating healthfully, I offer healthy eating coaching/nutritional consulting services by telephone. The first session is free. You just have to pay for the call.

To schedule your no charge evaluation, send me an e-mail with NO CHARGE EVALUATION in the subject line. Tell me what your concerns are, what times you are available, and what time zone you're in. I will send you an e-mail with your appointment date and time, and the phone number for you to call.