It's almost Halloween, and the scariest thing out there is...sugar!
Between parties and trick-or-treating, the average child in the US consumes a massive 3 cups of sugar at Halloween.
To put it another way, that’s around 150 teaspoons of added sugar, in addition to whatever they normally consume. The World Health Organisation recommends a safe level of 6 teaspoons a day. Halloween therefore means the average child is consuming enough sugar for around 25 days.
That’s WAY too much. With Australia already in the grip of a Sugardemic that is making our kids overweight and risking their health, we just can’t afford to import yet another sugarfest from the US.
So how can you make Halloween fun without risking your kids’ health?
Here are some fun, sugarfree ideas:
And after Trick or Treat time is finished, a visit from the Switch Witch can help to reduce the empty calories your kids eat, without them feeling deprived.
Have a great Halloween everyone, without scary levels of sugar!
How does sugar compare to tobacco? A teaspoon of sugar or one cigarette will not harm you. But over time, the habit can be fatal. Unlike Big Tobacco, Big Sugar deliberately targets children. And added sugar has become so pervasive within the food environment that we can't avoid it even if we wanted to.
