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"My son is all-raw, and it is total freedom, as he never hollers like other children to eat candy or junk food. In fact at my grandbaby's birthday party, after a pinata was broken, the kids were diving wildly for candy. My son was picking up the foreign matter and throwing it back to them. It was such a joy to see. We ex- plained from the get-go that there would be fake food there, which should not be eaten. He never doubted our word." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"But if you look at the charts, cornflakes have a high GI (86-92), while a popular chocolate and peanut candy bar has a low GI (41-43). Plain boiled carrots rank very high (about 92), while a chocolate cake with frosting ranks low (38) (see www.glycemicindex.com). Does this mean you should bypass the boiled carrots and corn- flakes and munch on candy bars and chocolate cake with frosting? Of course not! However, a strict interpretation of the GI charts suggests that is what you should do." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"They load up on high-sugar breakfast cereals, soft drinks, candy bars, sweets, cookies, and desserts, and then, just in case they don't have enough sugar in their system already, when they go to school they get rewarded with more candy and desserts, and they even have the opportunity to purchase soft drinks and candy bars from vending machines that are actually supported and promoted by the school bureaucrats." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Her mother would bring along a bag of barley sugar candy, an old-fashioned sweet, and dole it out during bumpy excursions. The candy did the trick. "I often got sick to my stomach, so my mother would give all of us kids a piece of candy as soon as I complained of feeling the least bit nauseated," says Vivien, of Princeton, New Jersey. "It would calm down my stomach almost immediately." Barley sugar candy is also sold in the United States. (Brock, a candy distributor, makes Barley Sweets, available at stores such as Wal-Mart.) Vivien's own children, however, never required the treat. " - Gale Maleskey, Brian Kaufman, Home Remedies: What Works: Thousands of Americans Reveal Their Favorite Home-Tested Cures for Everyday Health Problems (Get the book.)

"At the Marriott Hotel in downtown Des Moines, the physicians sat in ballrooms with crystal chandeliers, where the tables were covered with white tablecloths, and attendants kept them supplied with coffee and hard candy. They took breaks for pastries, yogurt, and soft drinks in a large hall, half the size of a football field, which was filled with sales booths erected by pharmaceutical companies. To pay for the event, the academy had charged the drug companies a thousand dollars for each eight-by-ten-foot booth. Tables in the booths were piled high with gifts for any physician wandering by." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Gluten is often used as a flavoring in candy, sauces, seasonings, soups, and salad dressings and as a filler in vitamins and medications [57, 82]. Many times the only way for persons with celiac disease to be certain that a specific product is gluten-free is to call the manufacturer directly and often, because ingredients in products commonly change without warning. Toiletries, such as shampoos, conditioners, and skin care products, are thought not harmful as long as they are not ingested." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The walkers, on the other hand, felt not only more energetic 1 and 2 hours after their walks, but also more relaxed. The candy munchers felt more tense. So why do so many of us still reach for candy bars? "It's an insidious thing," says Robert Thayer, Ph.D., author of the study and professor of psychology at California State. Because the immediate effect of eating the candy bar is positive, says Dr. Thayer, "we've been conditioned to eat them." But, he says, the study clearly shows that between a candy bar and a 10-minute walk, "there's no question which is the better choice." - Debora Tkac, Kim Anderson, Everyday Health Tips: 2000 Practical Hints for Better Health and Happiness (Get the book.)

"Thus, the guideline urges Americans to avoid foods that are high in added sugars (and a table lists examples of these foods: soft drinks, sugars and candy, cakes, cookies, pies, fruit-flavored drinks and fruit punch, and dairy desserts). High intakes of sugars are also associated with an increased incidence of dental caries, providing yet another reason to moderate sugar intake [41]. Dietary fiber intakes would increase if consumption of whole grains increased, so the guideline emphasizes the importance of consuming at least three servings of whole grains daily. 7." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "The majority of the ads were for candy, snacks, sugared cereals, and fast foods; none of the 8854 ads reviewed was for fruits and vegetables. Food marketing to children now extends beyond television and is widely prevalent on the Internet [209]; it is expanding rapidly into a ubiquitous digital media culture of new techniques including cell phones, instant messaging, video games, and three-dimensional virtual worlds, often under the radar of parents [210]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Hershey Twizzlers® black licorice-flavored candy (Chamberlain and Abolnik, 1997). There is one case report of life-threatening ventricular tachycardia due to hypokalemia induced by overdose (approximately 40-70g daily for four months) of a licorice candy (Eriksson et al., 1999), though the brand of the candy, and the actual quantity of licorice or licorice derivatives contained in the candy are missing from the report. Drug Interactions Licorice may potentiate the side effects of potassium depleting thiazide diuretics (e.g." - Mark Blumenthal, The ABC Clinical Guide to Herbs (Get the book.)

"Mary was brought up with a lot of candy, cake, ice cream and chocolate. A number of recent studies have linked a greater risk of breast cancer among women to a diet high in sugar (especially soft drinks and popular sweet desserts). Scientists now believe that the extra insulin released to process the simple starches and sugars found in these foods causes cells to divide and estrogens in the blood to rise. Both of these factors (cellular division and blood estrogens) can contribute to cancer growth." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"The cousins had their first breakthrough when they took a bitter treatment for parasitic worms, blended it with a sugar-cream confection and shaped it into a candy cone. From those early days on, Pfizer proved willing to break the norm. Soon after the antibiotic Terramycin was approved in 1950, Pfizer's chemists tried mixing it with chocolate syrup to make it tastier; they gave up when the bottles started to explode. The chemists had better luck with a different tactic: they mixed the antibiotic with animal feed to create "a growth enhancer" for hogs, chickens, and cattle." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Starbuck's Fruit Peel candy, etc. for Seasonal Allergies "THERE'S POLLEN in the air." That's hardly music to the ears of anyone suffering from seasonal allergies. The symptoms are all too familiar: itchy and watery eyes, runny noses, sneezing, headache, and swollen sinuses. And while none of those are exactly life threatening, they can certainly ruin your day. Candied Citrus Peel Quercetin Vitamin C Stinging Nettles n o 00 O n c 73 m Seasonal allergies are characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes in the nasal passages." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Cool in the fridge and eat like candy. They're beyond delicious. Antioxidants for Vision Multi-Vitamin THERE ARE A LOT of things I don't want to be when I grow older, but one of them is blind. Especially when it's preventable—which, in a huge number of cases it is. Omega-3 Zinc Lutein The leading cause of blindness in adults under the age of sixty is diabetic retinopathy, caused by complications of long-term diabetes. But the leading cause of adult blindness and vision loss in adults over sixty is something called macular degeneration." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "He gave the subjects one of two sugar- and fat-loaded candy bars—one with and one without chocolate. Then, at the end of the study, he counted their pimples. The complexions of forty-six of the sixty-five subjects stayed the same, ten actually improved, and nine showed more acne. Based on this highly suspect and flawed study, the claim that "diet has nothing to do with acne" was born and remains the "conventional wisdom" to this day. But don't get me started." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Many candy bars, in both supermarkets and health food stores, are marketed for their energy-boosting benefits. Nearly all of them contain various sugars, which would place them high on the glycemic index. They may temporarily boost blood-sugar and energy levels, but they also lead to a subsequent plummeting of blood-sugar levels. For all practical purposes, most of these energy bars are just another type of candy bar, and energy drinks are a soft drink that most people could do without. How Do the Glycemic Index and the Glycemic Load Fit In?" - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"I loved my chocolate candy, cake, pie, and banana splits. I liked all the bad things. All the things I liked, he said I couldn't have. There was no way I would do that." After she spent a few days in the hospital, Evelyn's doctor said, "Go home. Find a rocker." Evelyn remembers her response: "I should find a rocking chair and rock until the day I die?" The doctor replied, kindly enough, "That's what I mean." As Evelyn saw it, he had told her to go home and wait to die. So she did. And for several days, she and Hank talked over the situation." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"It is unconscionable that 8-12-year-olds see, on average, more than 7,600 food commercials a year—the vast majority for candy, snacks, cereals, and fast food."93 We understand that overweight is a risk factor for heart disease in adults, but the situation is more ominous still. Autopsy data from the conflicts in Korea94 and Vietnam,95 the Bogalusa study,96 and the PDAY Study97 all testify to the ubiquitous nature of the disease in young Americans. The 1992 Bogalusa Heart Study examined autopsies performed on children killed in accidental deaths." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"It was not the candy or mouthwash that was making Warner-Lambert rich, however. Most of its profits came from Parke-Davis, the subsidiary selling prescription drugs. Parke-Davis had once been an independent company that had grown to be the world's largest drug manufacturer. It was founded in the 1860s, when H. C. Parke and George S. Davis took over a pharmacy in Detroit, Michigan, and expanded it into a small drug company. The two men focused their efforts on selling alkaloids, medicines made from plants. The company's first success was the marketing of cocaine." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"No more candy, Joey," you say. Joey waits until you turn your back and then grabs a fistful of Gummi Bears. You simply can't understand why he would want to get into trouble over and over again. Doesn't he know that he would have so much more fun if he just complied? That part of you that wanted to spite your parents, that wanted to prove that you could do it your own way, hasn't gone away completely." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "Last month, when she had a grant proposal due, she ate two large bags of chips in one day and drank four cans of soda; the next day, she had five candy bars. She gained eleven pounds in one month. Florence, on the other hand, deals well with work pressure, but she binges late at night when her husband, Barney, doesn't come home. "I feel like I have no control," she tells me. "I get so anxious, and all I can think about is having some cake. It's always something sweet I want, and starchy, like cake or cookies or a scone." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"In a clever experiment, researchers at the Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University engaged servers at an upscale Italian-American restaurant to randomly offer their customers (at the end of the meal) no candy, one piece of candy per person, two pieces of candy per person, or one piece followed by a "spontaneous" offer of a second piece. They then recorded the size of the customers' tips. The tips as a percentage of the bill were (respectively) 19 percent, 19.6 percent, 21.6 percent and 23 percent." - Jerome P. Kassirer, On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health (Get the book.)

"You'll drive to a convenience store in the middle of the night for snacks; you'll steal your child's Halloween candy when she's asleep; you'll sneak and hide food. My patient Danielle described an episode of phantom hunger on a typical weekend: "The minute my husband left the house to play golf I found myself getting'hungry'when I knew I wasn't. I tried to put eating off: I took the dog for a walk, I went in the hot tub ... but the entire time I only thought of what I could be making, what I could be eating. I checked the fridge I don't know how many times, and then the pantry ..." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Other similar tests initiated by media outlets in other parts of the country found lead in lipstick to be about four times the FDA safety limit for lead in candy sold in stores. (11) Lead as an unlabeled ingredient or contaminant has also been found in lip glosses and lip conditioners. And the longer-lasting a lipstick is advertised as, the higher the level of lead the lipstick is likely to contain. This is bad news for most women and for the two-thirds of girls ten years old and younger who experiment with lip products." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"In Germany, the National Association of the Confectionery Industry has set a maximum upper limit of 200 mg glycyrrhizic acid/100 g candy [33]. Products with a higher content are labeled as "Strong Licorice", and a maximum serving size must also be stated (see: Side effects). In the U.S., the FDA has set maximum upper limits for glycyrrhizic acid content, i.e. 3.1% for soft candy, 16.0% for hard candy and 0.05% for baked goods [33a]." - Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier, Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals: A Handbook for Practice on a Scientific Basis (Get the book.)

"In Japan, one can find dozens of probiotic products on supermarket shelves, ranging from fortified milks to candy containing Lactobacilli and Bifidobacterium strains. In Chapter 18, we'll take a closer look at some of these products available on supermarket shelves. The probiotic food trend is evident around the world. Most popular in Japan, probiotics are consumed to a lesser degree in Europe. The use of probiotic supplements in Europe is a booming segment of the supplement market." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"People who experience these blood sugar swings sense when they're feeling a little weak or when their mood is about to go south, and, out of habit, they often reach for a soft drink or a candy bar to quickly raise their glucose. But candy bars and energy bars are only temporary fixes, and they actually make blood sugar swings even worse. Whenever you have bad or down moods, they can affect your outward behavior. An angry comment or outburst can cause hurt feelings, start an argument, or even trigger a physical brawl. Often, the effect snowballs." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"Studies show that people who eat fruit such as oranges tend to eat less at subsequent meals compared to people who eat snacks such as chips, snack crackers, desserts, or candy. ANXIETY: Patients awaiting dental procedures who were exposed to the odor of orange had reduced anxiety and improved mood compared to the control group. KIDNEY STONES: In a randomized study, researchers found that orange juice, more than any other citrus juice, boosted levels of citrate in the urine, necessary to stop kidney stones from forming." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Powder: Use in cakes, cookies, candy, or pancakes. • Chips: Substitute for chocolate chips in muffins and cookies. • Add carob syrup or powder to warm milk for a hot chocolate substitute. Carob Walnut Cake by Chef J. Hugh McEvoy Servings: 32 • Prep and baking time: 60 minutes This recipe contains five powerhouse foods." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

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