According to the census bureau, Americans eat nearly a half a pound of candy each week for an average of 25 pounds of candy a year. The concentrated intake of sweets and sugary drinks on Halloween and other holidays sets our children up for disease. The fact is that junk food of all types suppresses our children's immune systems, creates sugar highs and lows (and the resultant behavior), and promotes childhood obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. Furthermore, when our children eat junk food and don't eat fruits and vegetables, the groundwork is laid for cancer and other diseases down the road.
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What children eat in the first ten years of their lives is of the utmost importance because a child's growing body, with its rapidly dividing cells, is at a greater risk when exposed to all types of negative and toxic influences. As Joel Fuhrman M.D., one of the nation's top nutrition experts, puts it "in adults, our genetic material (DNA) is wound up in a tight ball, like rubber bands on the inside of a golf ball. When we are young and cells are replicating and growing, the DNA unwinds, exposing more of its surface, which makes it more susceptible to toxic or harmful exposures."
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