Halloween
How to Reduce The Amount of Sugar Your Kids Get This Halloween Witch's Brew
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Aug 26, 2007, 21:34

(NewsUSA) - Halloween is the time of year when your sweet children can turn into sweet-toothed monsters; that is, when they have too much sugar. That's why it's important to implement strategies to keep them out of the candy jar.

With the prevalence of child obesity and diabetes, it's important to keep your kids on a healthy diet, even during holidays that focus around sweets. Here are some tips from Healthy Balance (www.HealthyBalance.com) to help you this Halloween:

* Set limits. If you let your children have an entire bag of trick-or-treat candy, you can't control how much they eat or when they eat it. Instead, divide up the candy into sandwich bags for each day of the week. You can control how many pieces of candy your kids eat by telling them that each small bag has to last them an entire day.

* Don't leave the candy out. If a bowl of candy is out in plain view, kids will surely sneak a few pieces. Instead, store the candy in a high cupboard or other place where they won't have such easy access to it.

* Steer the focus of Halloween onto something other than candy. Get kids to help decorate the porch with a scary scene or work on a special costume with you. Encourage them to eat healthy Halloween-themed food such as Blue Witch's Brew, made with Old Orchard juice cocktails.

The Old Orchard Healthy Balance line of juice cocktails features 75 percent less sugar, carbohydrates and calories than other fruit juices of the same variety. These juice cocktails are fortified with 100 percent of the daily requirement of vitamin C. They are preservative-free and feature no artifical colors or flavors.

A portion of proceeds from all Healthy Balance sales goes to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in support of its efforts to fund diabetes research.


Blue Witch's Brew

Serves 2

* 1/4 cup each Old Orchard Healthy Balance Cranberry juice and Pomegranate juice cocktail

* 2 cups low-fat blueberry yogurt

* 1 cup fresh blueberries

Blend cranberry juice, pomegranate juice and blueberries until smooth. Add yogurt and blend. Keep in refrigerator or serve immediately.

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