This Is Your Body on Candy

[rangerrebew]

This Is Your Body on Candy
Your heart, joints and even mood take a hit.

By Toby Amidor, Contributor |Oct. 27, 2017, at 10:49 a.m.

 

Each year, my kids come back from trick-or-treating with pillowcases filled with chocolate bars, taffy, sugar-filled sticks and more. After they're done swapping their treats and picking their favorites from the pile, I'm stuck with buckets of goodies just begging to be eaten. But before I indulge my kids' reject pile, I think about how candy affects different parts of the body. It helps me reject the treats, too. Here's what to know before digging in:

https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/2017-10-27/this-is-your-body-on-candy

[stephen50right]

I say let the kids have fun, within reason, and enjoy their candy. Their young bodies can absorb it.

However for adults, especially middle age and older adults, chit such as candy is like a slow acting poison, and I'm not joking.