Trick or Treats

Hope you had a happy Halloween and all your Ghosts and Goblins had all the candy they could handle.  Let me know what you do to get rid of all the candy.  Email me at [email protected].  Do you do the one night binge, or do the kids have a secret survival cache hidden throughout the house?    After our kids ate candy for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and had extreme sugar melt downs and withdrawal symptoms for 3 days,  we hid it all in our closet.  I take my favorites from their stash but it will most likely end up in the garbage can this week.

Besides the sugar in candy (possibly as addictive as heroin, don't believe me, try taking candy away from a child) most candy also has an acidic pH which erodes (decalcifies) teeth.  Decay causing bacteria also love to live in an acidic environment.  Look at the pH values below and see.

pH at which teeth decalcify    4.0
Spree    3.0
Sour Gummy Bears    3.0
Sour punch Straws    2.5
Skittles    2.5
Laffy Taffy    2.5
Starburst    2.4
Lemon Heads    2.4
Sour Skittles    2.2
Air heads    2.0
Now and Later    1.9
Pixy Stix    1.9
Fun Dip    1.8
Warheads sour Spray    1.6
Battery Acid    1.0

Maybe you are one of the fortunate parents who has a child who believes in the Great Pumpkin, so you don't have to worry about any of this.  If not I recommend plenty of sleep to get rid of a sugar hangover.

Happy Hauntings
Jared Wolthuis

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