Healthy Habits: Halloween Tips

Halloween is a time of tricks, treats and unhealthiness. Let’s face it; avoiding candy is hard to do. That’s why health and nutrition expert, Budge Collinson, has some surprising tips to help make sure you and your family’s holiday scare doesn’t happen on the scale or in the doctor’s office.

 

 

1. Dine on Decorations - seasonal foods like corn, pumpkin, squash and apples aren't just for decoration…  Eat them, they are good for you! many people set pumpkins, corn stalks, and gourds out for decoration but many people actually do not eat them.  Popped corn and regular corn can be healthy (Fiber) along with the gourds for antioxidants, fiber, vitamins and vitamins (A) not usually found in typical green vegetables.

2. Morning Snacking - snacking earlier in the day or after a workout is ideal because the body is more primed to use the sugar for fuel than fat storage. So once you have

3. Trick, Treating and Walking - choose a neighborhood that offers more walking in between houses- more walking and less candy gathering

4. Goblin’ Nutrients - sugar strips the body of nutrients. So make sure you gobble up easy to take multi vitamins like Youth Infusion

 

5. Smaller Snickers - mini snickers calorie for calorie is better than candy corn - more fat and protein makes for more even blood sugar

6.      Perfect Popcorn - popped corn is high in fiber - choose air popped

7.      Pick the Candy you Don’t Like - wait until a day or two to buy candy and buy what you don't like to give out to trick or treaters

8.      Pump-in the Pumpkin - make use of pumpkin treats the seeds are very healthy and rich in fiber and essential fatty acids. Many recipes exist for tasty low fat vitamin rich pumpkin pie

9.      H2OOOOOOOO! -- make sure to carry water while trick o treating - hydration and blunts appetite

10.  Apple Appetite - not only are they in season but they offer fiber nutrients and appetite blunting effect - make use of them as a snack even an hour before meals and candy intake

 

Tips from Budge Collinson, President and Founder of Infusion Sciences, a health and wellness focused improving health, natural energy and sustainable wellness. He has been featured by media outlets across the country, including FOXNews.  Budge, who grew up in a household where the natural way was the only way. His mother Linda founded the LaCrista Natural Skincare Company while he was still in elementary school. Budge began learning about alternative methods to health and wellness early on, and after a lifetime of personal experience with natural remedies, found the Infusion Sciences company — continuing the Collinson family tradition of prolonging health, longevity and quality of life. Budge earned a B.S. degree in Food and Resource Economics from the University of Florida while completing numerous classes in the area of nutrition, science, and food processing. After achieving an NASM certification from the National Academy of Sports Medicine in 1998 while furthering his nutrition and physical performance knowledge, Budge became a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) in 2002.