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10/31/2007
HALLOWEEN CANDY TIPS FROM DR. STEVE WITHERLY, AUTHOR OF WHY HUMANS LIKE JUNK FOOD
1. Dont let your little trick or treaters go door to door without
eating a full dinner, this will greatly reduce the temptation to overeat.
2. Bananas and apples are very filling, see if you can convince your
child to one one first, this will greatly reduce their appetite.
3. Use Halloween candy as a reward as sports activity or academic
achievement; never use candy to reward a child for eating,say, their
broccolis. Using candy for a reward actually lessens the reward value of
the broccolis and increases the value of the candy. Instead, learn how
to make broccoli a little tastier by adding a light cheese sauce or a
nice garlic butter sauce with lemon.
4. Put the candy out of sight and into air tight containers. humans are
visual animals and if you see candy you will want it. Worse, is if you
smell the candy; a ancient starvation program in the brain will create a
craving that lasts for hours: so keep it safe and out of sight.
5. Here is a real neat way to control the candy craving. Have your
little one separate out the candy into piles by type--all skittles here,
all M&Ms there. Then let you son or daughter know that they can have
some candy for a week but only of the same type. A phenomenon called
"Sensory Specific Satiety" states that we get bored with food within
minutes; if they eat the same thing in a row or all week they will
greatly drop their desire for it. Its an amazing thing to watch.
6. Finally, never, and I mean never, pig out on the candy in front of
the little ones; this helps validate that overdoing it is okay--if Mom
and Dad do it, I should do it to. Better yet, eat an apple (with the
skin on) while all the candy is around and they might just think that is
really cool and do the same.
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