I sure hope your days are full of fun with kids. If you don’t have kids, I’m sure you’ll enjoy all those little tyke’s comin’ round tomorrow night. Halloween is simply a fun time for children and a bit of a hassle for parents, in my opinion. Back in the day (listen to me I sound old!) we used to make up our costumes. Where’s the fun, really, in buying a costume? And yet, most every year we run out of time or just can’t think how to make a Darth Vader costume and so we’re off to the store for a costume costing anywhere in the range of $19.99 (without the light saber) to $59.99 which I refuse to pay. Somehow it’s lost its charm for me with store bought e v e r y t h i n g.
We carved pumpkins yesterday which was fun. The boys drew a design and I carved. But Emma would not let me touch hers. I had to let her learn the hard way, with a small cut on her hand to show for it. Sometimes it is hard to let them grow up.
I’m still picking the strands and seeds up off the floor and have not sorted out the seeds from flesh yet. Does anyone have a good recipe for roasted pumpkin seeds. I have such good memories of that as a child.
But I am not looking forward to implementing a limit on candy! And I am more and more concerned about the amount of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in our diet today. I have noticed it makes us crazy and sick.
If you’re more than just curious about this, I’d encourage you to read this disturbing article titled The Murky World of High Fructose Corn Syrup. Here’s a sampling…I’ve highlighted some of the more disturbing results of rats & the scary stuff, HFCS.
Sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose. When sugar is given to rats in high amounts, the rats develop multiple health problems, especially when the rats were deficient in certain nutrients, such as copper. The researchers wanted to know whether it was the fructose or the glucose moiety that was causing the problems. So they repeated their studies with two groups of rats, one given high amounts of glucose and one given high amounts of fructose. The glucose group was unaffected but the fructose group had disastrous results. The male rats did not reach adulthood. They had anemia, high cholesterol and heart hypertrophy–that means that their hearts enlarged until they exploded. They also had delayed testicular development. Dr. Field explains that fructose in combination with copper deficiency in the growing animal interferes with collagen production. (Copper deficiency, by the way, is widespread in America.) In a nutshell, the little bodies of the rats just fell apart. The females were not so affected, but they were unable to produce live young.
A lot more research needs to be done, but this is scary stuff people.
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