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Taking Candy From Strangers: HuffPost Readers' 10 Worst Halloween Treats

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Last week we presented every manner of Halloween candy and asked you to let us know which were hot and which were not. Well the votes have been tall...

Taking Candy From Strangers: HuffPost Readers' 10 Best Halloween Treats

Posted 10.30.2010 | Home

Last week we presented every manner of Halloween candy and asked you to let us know which were hot and which were not. Well, the votes have been tal...

5 Tips to Soften Your Kids' Sugar Shock This Halloween

Connie Bennett | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Connie Bennett

With Halloween coming soon, it's expected that children and their parents will do candy hoarding and sugar gorging, which will inevitably hurl them into Sugar Shock. Here are five tips to soften the sugar high.

Favorite Candy Stores

Melissa Biggs Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Melissa Biggs Bradley

Rooted in Celtic tradition, Halloween has worn many hats as the holiday for pagan worship, successful harvests, and the commemoration of departed soul...

Wines To Pair With Your Halloween Candy

Slashfood | Kristine Hansen, Posted Oct 27th 2010 @ 3:00PM | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Admit it. Every year, you dig into the Halloween candy stash well before trick-or-treat hours begin, right? There's no shame in sampling the sweets --...

Meet The Women Who Give Out Raisins & Pennies On Halloween (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

From sketch comedy group Rue Brutalia (the people who brought you the still-hilarious PeniPlus commercial) comes a video revealing the ladies responsi...

PHOTOS: The BEST Cities For Trick Or Treating

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Not all Halloweens are created equal. For the candy and costume fanatics wondering what it's like to collect Halloween candy in another city, Zillow, ...

How Candy And Halloween Became Best Friends

The Atlantic | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Wherever you turn this October, candy beckons. Americans will spend an estimated $2 billion on candy during the Halloween season this year, and here's...

Trick or Treat: The Hidden Health Risks of Food Dyes

EatingWell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
EatingWell

I have a hard time saying "no" to gummy candy. But I won't eat just any variety (bring on the bear-shaped gummies or anything sour-flavored, hold the ...

Taking Candy From Strangers: The Best & Worst Halloween Treats

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

It's an annual ritual: Debating whether candy corn shouldn't be restricted to the confines of a single holiday, or if it's a devilish scourge that sho...

Reyne Gauge: The History of Halloween

Reyne Haines | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Reyne Haines

You might find it hard to believe that Halloween is not another Hallmark holiday made to create millions of dollars in commercial candy, card and costume sales. But it's true.

Baking Candy Into Blondies

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

I would wholeheartedly recommend using this recipe to enhance your next batch of blondies with treats, cut up into pieces, of course, if not bite-sized already.

Halloween: Sales Of Empty-Calorie, Sugar-Filled Candies Soar

Connie Bennett | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Connie Bennett

It's only fitting that I begin as a Huffington Post blogger soon before Halloween, a spooky holiday, when many of our country's adults feel that it's un-American NOT to give out sugar-loaded candies.

Christian Broadcasting Network Warns Against 'Demonic' Halloween Candy

Huffington Post | Alex Leo & Katla McGlynn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

UPDATE: CBN has removed the blog. The original text is available here. ----- Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network posted a blog by Kimberly ...

How To Live On $0 A Day: Rediscover the Childlike Joy of Halloween (Get Free Stuff)

Lesley Stern | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Lesley Stern

Halloween traditionally marks the end of the harvest season when people begin storing necessities for the long, lean months ahead. Which is exactly the way you should be looking at it now.

As Goes Halloween, So Goes Childhood

Lenore Skenazy | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Lenore Skenazy

If you want to see what childhood is becoming, look how at what Halloween has already become: A parent-planned, climate-controlled, child-coddled, corporate-sponsored "event."

The 9 Grossest Kinds Of Candy No Adult Should Give Out On Halloween

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

This may be our most controversial slideshow ever. We left off black licorice despite protestations, we kept gum drops on regardless of the pleas to a...

Have Your Candy And Eat It, Too

Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent

We don't feel one bit guilty about our candy consumption, but in order to feel sexy in our Halloween costume we had to find a way to balance out all the chemicals, food dyes, and fake sugars that we've been putting into our bodies.

Trick or Eat: Mindfully Eating Chocolate This Halloween

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Dr. Susan Albers

What is more frightening than ghosts and goblins during Halloween? For many people who are trying to eat healthier, walking into a grocery store brimming full of bags of little Halloween candy bars brings up a lot of fear.

Stop Sugar Shock on Halloween: Power Up With PFFW

Connie Bennett | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Connie Bennett

Even if parents develop clever schemes to limit the number of candies their children eat, kids -- and many adults -- will often overdose on sweets, in secret if need be.

7 Ways To Give Back On Halloween

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

When you're a kid, Halloween is all about receiving: scares, costumes, and of course, candy. If you want Halloween for you and your kids to include so...