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This article by registered dietician Jeanne Cullen explains how to make a few comfort foods and fast food favorites a bit healthier for your waistline and your blood sugar. Includes printable recipes.

Most people closely associate Halloween with chomping on candies and the subsequent sugar shock. But the holiday doesn't have to revolve around sugar. You can still bring fun, joy and excitement and into your children's Halloween without making the holiday mainly about the sugary "goodies." Learn how this Sunday morning (Oct. 28 at 8:15 a.m. EST) when I appear on WCBS-TV in the New York metropolitan area. I'll offer helpful tips galore on WCBS-TV, in a live, four-to-six-minute segment on "CBS 2 Sunday Morning." The talented general assignment reporter Deborah Garcia will interview me. (Deborah, who joined the WCBS-TV team...

Halloween-haunted parents, 'fess up! Are you a sugar bandit like the typical parent, who sneaks some 5 pieces of candy from your children's trick-or-treat bags? Does this sound like you? We want to know! Have some fun with us as we jokingly own up to our sugar weaknesses. These are the confessions of one mom: "I used to be on a holy quest to keep my kids from eating their Halloween candy. I was just eating their candies for their own good. Better, I thought, that I eat it than that they did!" I'm so proud of this mother for...

Today, you can catch me on 97.55 KHNR in Honululu, Hawaii from 3:05 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. EST when I'll be interviewed by David Snow. Ah, wouldn't it be nice to be in that glorious place right now! By the way, you can listen live to me, thanks to streaming technology.

Here's an article I wrote to help you and your family have a healthy and happy Halloween. Halloween: Don’t Trick Kids With Candies! Treat Them With Healthy, Fun “Goodies” Instead By Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. Halloween is downright spooky. And I’m not talking about the cavorting children dressed up as gruesome goblins, ghouls, monsters or pirates. Rather, the scariest part of Halloween is that it’s become our nationally observed, mandatory “Spooky Sugar Overload Day” (and week). Sadly, most Americans follow this accepted, but outdated ritual despite our alarming rates of obesity and skyrocketing numbers of children getting type 2 diabetes. This...

What a wonderful coincidence! I just caught Jack LaLanne on the Jimmy Kimmel Live Show. And guess what Jimmy's first question was to Jack? He wanted to know if Jack really didn't eat any sugar! Yes, Jack LaLanne -- America's first fitness trainer -- who taught us all about the value of exercising, disdains the sweet white powder, because it can do so much harm. Sure enough, JackLaLanne revealed to Jimmy about his sugar addict days. Yes, Mr. Fitness himself, now 94, discussed how he used to be a sugar addict when he was 15 and was hooked on cakes,...

Today, I'm helping radio listeners in Nevada to have a healthy Halloween. At 10:10 a.m., I'll be on KWNA in Winnemucca, chatting with the lively, fun host Rodd Stowell. Folks, I want to help you learn that Halloween does not need to be associated with candy.

Remember, I told you last week how I hung up on the Howard Stern Show without knowing it? Well, they aired the segment in which I'm laughing, giggling and getting all awkward and embarrassed but trying to get the point across that sugar can turn your kids into "Sugar Brats." Now, I want to thank you, all you guys, and one woman, for writing me! It was nice to hear from so many of you. Phew! I guess, gauging from your remarks, I didn't make a complete fool of myself after all! As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy to...

My day was just made by this post on the Life Without Donuts blog from a former donut junkie. What an honor and thrill to know that SUGAR SHOCK! ! is helping people in this manner. Here's what the now-sugar-free blogger wrote: "Everybody and their grandma has a "What I'm Reading" list on their blog, so I decided I might as well jump in on the trend. Seriously, I've read some really good books this year, books that have made a profound impact on my life. So I wanted to share the short list with you for right now. I...

Stay tuned for ways to get all kinds of Halloween tips from me in the coming days. Tomorrow, on Wednesday, October 24, you can catch me from 10:35 a.m. to 10:55 am (EST) on KIRX-AM, when I'll be interviewed by host Dusty Page for "Area Scene." The show -- which airs out of Kirksville, Missouri -- can be heard earlier, from 9:35 a.m. to 10:35 a.m. on Missouri time.