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Filed under: In The News, Research Reveals: Big Kids, Research Reveals: Tweens
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Ha! Wrong, Captain Tofu!
Revenge could be sweet for the candy crowd. The Vancouver Sun reports a new study finds kids who eat candy weigh less and are less likely be overweight than their counterparts munching on carrots.
This revolutionary study was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a big chunk of the funding came from the National Confectioners Association. You know, the people who make candy.
Great, so this may be a little like the International Brotherhood of Heroin Pushers Local 839 funding a study that concludes heavy narcotics are essential for building strong bones and teeth.
Still, data is data.
Researchers at Louisiana State University (hardly puppets of Big Chocolate) found kids who ate candy were 22 percent less likely to be overweight and 28 percent less likely to be obese.
So stick that in your bean curd, and do whatever is you do with bean curd. (What? You eat it? Gross!)
Carol O'Neil, a registered dietitian and professor at Louisiana State University's Agricultural Center, led researchers in tracking the eating habits of kids ages 2 to 17 between 1999 and 2004.
While chocolate is indisputably the food of the gods, O'Neil tells the Vancouver Sun she is not suggesting parents fill the family swimming pool with M&Ms in lieu of dinner. In fact, even though young candy eaters aren't getting fat, she still called their their diets "abysmal."
"Children need to eat better than they are eating now," O'Neil tells the Sun. "Candy can certainly be used as some sort of celebratory treat or an occasional treat."
Her study, she adds, is not "a hall pass to eat what you want."
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7-04-2011 @ 1:43AM
Ph-Phat said...For about 8 months 3/4 of my food intake was candy.. I gained 5lbs or so at first, but I lost it within the next 2 months (I didn't exercise, i walked 15 minutes to the store to get the candy and 15 minutes back, but no other real exercise). I am soo sooo sick of candy (It gives me a headache and makes me want to throw up when I see a candy rapper, I have a sad life now XD), but now it's impossible for me to gain weight, I tried to put on a few pounds because I'm still growing and nothing happens. I ate fast food twice a day fro 3-4 weeks and gained absolutely now eight -__-.. I think it's because 1 - I was malnourished from only eating candy and 2 - my metabolism must be on top of things now... I suppose candy has sugar vs fat which would cause less noticable pudgey-ness? and now I can eat whatever I want, although candy makes me want to barf at this point, that's why I stopped... I can't believe I used to do that D:
But yeah... candy doesn't necessarily cause weight gain.
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