What do you know candy?

Everyone likes candy, and as an occasional treat, it's fun and harmless. But when people eat sweets every day, is not to treat and takes the place of healthy foods. What is worse? Candy has no nutritional value.

In general, treatment of calories from sweets and vacuum concentrated sugar solutions. Aroma and color, in general, has received, but most times they are artificial. Some go the extra mile and include fats and preservatives. Very few of whichall nutrients. Chocolate is loaded with sugar and fat ... and not just fat. A chocolate bar has only 1 / 5 of the total recommended daily fat and half of your saturated fat. Snacks are fruit because of the colorful fruit on the packaging. But most of the time, these candies contain only artificial flavors.

Candy has a high glycemic load, which means that the sugar in the blood causes a spike in. This is also known sweets for diabetics, who often blood sugar testerDrops. These blood sugar spikes and drops in blood sugar can lead to insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes type II lead.

The sugar in sweet gum have shown that the tooth decay due to a direct influence on the teeth and the supply of harmful bacteria in the mouth, slow down the damage. Dentists have warned us for years the negative effects sugar has on our teeth.

I laugh at some of the latest candy. The manufacturers are jumping on the train and HealthProduction of candy, what they call healthy. There is no such thing. Without fat, vitamin-enriched, low fat cakes are loaded with sugar. If you are not a substitute for fruits and vegetables.

When children are in this huge amount of sugar regularly exposed, long fruit that is not only healthy, but are denied and vegetables. They are so focused on the flavor used artificially produced, where no natural sugar in fruit. They are after the jumpartificially flavored foods that are high in fat, sugar and calories just to satisfy their appetites. This is one of the causes of obesity in children.

Another factor that excessive consumption of sugar, the prevalence of ADHD in children and adults. There is no direct evidence that children who eat lots of sweet sugary foods, such as, ADD are more likely with the diagnosis. Most of these children do not need to add, but just trying to burn the excessiveThe amounts of sugar in their bodies.

You know, Halloween is upon us. I say hand apples instead of candy? No, I do not think we should interfere with a holiday tradition, but we can certainly limit its impact. The parents, the amount of candy your kids to eat out of their pockets. For those who give, try bags of fresh popcorn, candied fruit or quarters.