Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Tylenol has now decided to transform its potent, over-the-counter drugs and pharmaceuticals into candy for kids. Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, has introduced Tylenol Cool Caplets, a candy-like medicine that offers adult-strength pain medication with a strong, minty taste. This is described as “instant cooling” in advertisements and free samples are being handed out like candy, by skimpy girls wearing revealing outfits who are called the Tylenol Cool Caps Girls. It’s all part of a marketing campaign effort by Tylenol to make the Tylenol brand more hip and cool. |
| It would certainly make inventory control much easier for Walgreen’s because today they have to put the candy bars at the front of the store and the drugs at the back of the store. By combining the drugs with the health-degrading candy bars, they could save a tremendous amount of floor space and simplify inventory. The only downside, of course, is that every candy bar would cost $15.00 and it would be illegal to buy them in Canada. |
| The consumption of refined carbohydrates, hydrogenated oils, saturated fats, white flour, artificial chemical sweeteners, and other ingredients found in candy products are major contributors to the sky-rocketing incidence of chronic disease in this country.
But, then again, maybe it’s a great idea. Put the disease-causing ingredients and the symptom-masking ingredients into the same candy bar. That way, people can both be diseased and treated by conventional medicine in the same delicious, chewy bite. |
Jack Challem
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 Many candy bars, in both supermarkets and health food stores, are marketed for their energy-boosting benefits. Nearly all of them contain various sugars, which would place them high on the glycemic index. They may temporarily boost blood-sugar and energy levels, but they also lead to a subsequent plummeting of blood-sugar levels. For all practical purposes, most of these energy bars are just another type of candy bar, and energy drinks are a soft drink that most people could do without.
How Do the Glycemic Index and the Glycemic Load Fit In? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Children can collect enough candy in one evening to roll around in it on the living room floor, bartering their boring candy corns for something good like Skittles (yet another form of sugar and artificial color additives). Our free market market economy has worked wonders. Truly; it's amazing! |
| I'm more astonished at the parents who waddle down wide suburban streets, diabetic and obese, rallying their children to ring yet another doorbell and cash in on the windfall of candy profits made possible by the mass commercialization of the holiday by candy manufacturers. Some of these overweight parents are so out of shape, they can barely huff their way through a four-block neighborhood before needing to head back home for their nightly insulin shot. The irony of it all goes utterly unnoticed by virtually everyone.
Ahh, it's a moment to savor. |
Mark Blumenthal
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 Hershey Twizzlers® black licorice-flavored candy (Chamberlain and Abolnik, 1997). There is one case report of life-threatening ventricular tachycardia due to hypokalemia induced by overdose (approximately 40-70g daily for four months) of a licorice candy (Eriksson et al., 1999), though the brand of the candy, and the actual quantity of licorice or licorice derivatives contained in the candy are missing from the report.
Drug Interactions
Licorice may potentiate the side effects of potassium depleting thiazide diuretics (e.g. |
Jack Challem
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 People who experience these blood sugar swings sense when they're feeling a little weak or when their mood is about to go south, and, out of habit, they often reach for a soft drink or a candy bar to quickly raise their glucose. But candy bars and energy bars are only temporary fixes, and they actually make blood sugar swings even worse.
Whenever you have bad or down moods, they can affect your outward behavior. An angry comment or outburst can cause hurt feelings, start an argument, or even trigger a physical brawl. Often, the effect snowballs. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 But if you look at the charts, cornflakes have a high GI (86-92), while a popular chocolate and peanut candy bar has a low GI (41-43). Plain boiled carrots rank very high (about 92), while a chocolate cake with frosting ranks low (38) (see www.glycemicindex.com). Does this mean you should bypass the boiled carrots and corn- flakes and munch on candy bars and chocolate cake with frosting? Of course not! However, a strict interpretation of the GI charts suggests that is what you should do. |
Dan Buettner
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 We interviewed Yoshiei Shiroma, a tanned, leather-skinned man from Naha, who told us that candy was the secret to his longevity. He not only ate it every day, he also made his own, crushing sugar cane and boiling it down in his backyard.
"If you eat so much candy," I asked him, "how come you have such nice teeth?"
"They're false," he laughed, tapping his white dentures.
Sitting on the floor was part of the daily routine for 94-year-old Koutoku Kinjo. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Licorice
First things first—everyone knows licorice as a candy, which, at least when I was a kid, was very much an acquired taste. But candy confections aside, real licorice root is a serious food and a potent herb and has real health benefits.
Licorice is a perennial herb native to southern Europe, Asia, and the Mediterranean. The herb is extensively cultivated in Russia, Spain, Iran, and India. Licorice is one of the most popular and widely consumed herbs in the world. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 I was working at a health food store at the time but ironically had very little interest in trying any of the products to help myself (except for the "natural" candy, which had all of the sugar, fat, and calories as other candy bars). I bought breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner at the fast food establishment across the street and started smoking. A customer who befriended me suggested that I try adding some veggies, fruit, and whole grains to my diet—not all at once but a little at a time. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Why stop at turning painkillers into candy? Why don’t we have the Chocolate Statin Bar, where you can get both a dose of delicious milk chocolate and your favorite cholesterol-lowering Statin drug at the same time.
And what a coincidence: The FDA covers both food and drugs. By actually combining food with drugs, they could kill two birds with one stone and end up regulating one group of products instead of two. Think of the efficiency savings at the FDA alone. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Any digestible carbohydrate will do just fine as far as the bacteria are concerned, since they will progressively convert it to sucrose; this includes refined flour products and all sources of sugar, such as candy, honey, dried fruits, sweetened cereals, ice cream, canned or frozen fruits in syrup, hard candy, puddings, sodas, and other sweets. Since carbohydrates are an important part of our diet, they cannot be eliminated, but we can minimize their adverse dental effects and thereby discourage dental decay. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 The reason is this: As you change your diet, your insulin
Not Exactly Health Food
A few years ago, I was running a study on diet and weight loss and found that a couple of our participants were chowing down on Twizzlers—the red candy that comes in long twists like licorice. When I asked why they were eating candy, they pointed out that the product is both vegan and low in fat. And sure enough, there's a friendly message printed on a package of Twizzlers Strawberry Twists:
Did you know . . .
Strawberry Twists are a low-fat candy! |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Any digestible carbohydrate will do just fine as far as the bacteria are concerned, since they will progressively convert it to sucrose; this includes refined flour products and all sources of sugar, such as candy, honey, dried fruits, sweetened cereals, ice cream, canned or frozen fruits in syrup, hard candy, puddings, sodas, and other sweets. Since carbohydrates are an important part of our diet, they cannot be eliminated, but we can minimize their adverse dental effects and thereby discourage dental decay. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| But on the bright side, politicians would get re-elected by handing out doped-up candy bars to elderly voters who somehow manage to get up off of their walkers and canes just long enough to punch a vote and gulp a couple of Prozac Pralines.
By the way, a Tylenol spokesperson says, “This is certainly not about making medicines fun, because medicines are serious business. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Well, maybe the Balance Bar company would argue that "the Balance Bar can be part of a healthy diet," as all candy bar companies argue. Look, let's get real folks. Let's get honest. This is not a natural health product. To me, this is a candy bar with protein. That's all it is. And I think it belongs in the candy bar show, not in the natural products expo. I think we need to have a company like LaraBar sponsoring the Natural Health Products Expo. Now that would be a healthy bar. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 All that pizza, soda, milk, cheese and candy has absolutely nothing to do with it, as the kid will handily tell you himself between mouthfuls.
Have you ever watched a sugar-addicted, diabetic American ten year old kid on Halloween? He feels as if he's won the candy lottery. He's as surprised as a corrupt politician who wins a reelection campaign. "You mean to tell me," he asks himself, "people just hand out candy for free? And you just walk around and collect all you want?"
It would be like a crack addict learning that crack grows on trees. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| We have mastered the economics of delivering nutritionally devoid calories to a nutritionally ignorant population, and we've even managed to wrap Holidays around the whole consumption racket, forever imprinting each subsequent generation of children with the belief that Halloween = candy, Thanksgiving = Turkey and Christmas = Cookies.
This holiday season, be amazed. Look around at what's happening with the eyes of a visitor from outer space (someone who has no knowledge of our bizarre customs and holidays). Then ask yourself: What the heck is behind all this? |
Heather Boon, BScPhm, PhD and Michael Smith, BPharm, MRPharmS, ND
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 Most often these adverse effects are caused by the consumption of large amounts of licorice candy and/or in those with pre-existing cardiovascular or renal impairment.3 74 One much-quoted case of severe congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema occurred when a 53-year-old man ate 700 g of licorice candy over 8 days.75 Another study reports on the successful treatment of a 63-year-old patient with severe postural hypotension.76
Chandler suggests that a maximum of 10 mg of glycyrrhizin (approximately 5 g of authentic licorice candy) can be safely consumed daily over long periods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, I've been eating these CherryFlex softgels like candy! (They're really delicious. In fact, I encourage people to chew these supplements and experience the cherry taste. It's absolutely wonderful!)
What health conditions, exactly, can cherries help prevent or reverse? Keep in mind these are all my own statements and are not claimed by the FruitFast company. (Not a surprise, given than the company has already been threatened by the FDA and is unable to exercise its free speech rights to tell you the truth about the health benefits of cherry concentrates... |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| REPPED: This year at the annual sugar-and-food-additives fest for children called "Halloween," I think parents should skip the middle step of handing out candy and just hand out Ritalin directly to the kids. I say this in jest, of course, since I am adamantly against the use of Ritalin in children, but let's be crystal clear about one thing that's different from last year's Halloween: This year, we have scientific evidence that artificial colors cause hyperactivity in children.
The evidence I'm talking about is, of course, the study recently conducted in the U.K. |
| All the food, candy and sodas that are going to be consumed over the next several holidays have already been made in a factory, stored in a warehouse, shipped on a truck and loaded onto store shelves, just waiting for hungry, gullible consumers to come along and shovel down their own share of processed food additives and refined sugar derivatives.
There's a kind of sick beauty in the whole thing. I'm always struck by the idea that we must actually be the wealthiest people in the world, because we have so much "food" around here that people are actually just giving it away for free. |
| The dreaded candy corns. They contain virtually nothing other than corn syrup and artificial colors.
A holiday that's fitting for the most obese nation in the world
Every Halloween, I stare in astonishment at the scene playing out in front of my eyes. I'm not astonished at the children, mind you: They're just doing what they've been taught to do by television advertisements and peer pressure. |
Steven V. Joyal
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| Common sense tells you that choosing chocolate cake with frosting and a candy bar as the cornerstone of your nutrition plan because these two foods have a low GI ranking isn't a great idea. This extreme example points out an important fact: although the GI chart does provide some interesting information about relative blood glucose response to individual foods, it is flawed and has major limitations for use.
Many hardcore advocates of the GI may be distressed by the results of a study published in February 2006 in the British Journal of Nutrition. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The American Diabetes Association, for example, accepted millions of dollars from soft drink companies and candy manufacturers. None of these disease organizations have been willing to stand up and tell the truth about nutrition and chemical toxicity. They aren't willing to stand up and say you should have absolutely no refined sugar in your diet, or that high fructose corn syrup promotes diabetes and obesity.
If you have good nutrition and you avoid exposure to environmental chemicals, then you won't express a disease even if you have the so-called gene that has been linked to it. |
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