Be afraid, be very afraid… Why is Halloween candy so hard to resist? We know it’s garbage and yet…just one more…
Very calculated mad-food-science creates processed food containing perfectly addictive proportions of sugar, fat and salt to hit us in the pleasure centers of our brain. The same brain centers light up on imaging when hit with cocaine or other addictive substances. Override happens, even for those of us with the best of intentions to ‘avoid eating that stuff this year’. There may also be a nostalgic pleasure connection if you really enjoyed Halloween as a child, so that lends itself to the situational trick or treat binge.
Thing is, excess sugar, far and salt and processed foods are affiliated with higher risk of diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancer, stokes, kidney damage.. the familiar and frightening list goes on. And these are truly scary stats.
Luckily this day only happens once a year, so if you have a pretty good day-to-day food plan, you won't take on too much damage, apart from perhaps a tummy ache. After 10/31, get that stuff out of your house, ASAP and make yourself a delicious fresh local green salad, soup or stew made with local ingredients, and breathe a sigh of relief, thumbing your nose at the demonic processed food industry.
