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What's Scarier than Ghosts & Goblins? How about Type 2 Diabetes!

Its Halloween, and you know what that means: sugar, sugar, sugar! Beginning late summer, stores begin taunting and tantalizing us with prominently displayed festive treats conveniently packaged in small, easy to eat servings. By the time the actual holiday rolls around, we've been wading through candy corn and "fun sized" candy bars for months. All holidays have their peculiar food traditions, but Halloween perhaps wins the prize for being the most focused on candy and other sweet treats as the center of attraction. And no matter how hard you try to avoid it, you will undoubtedly find yourself staring down a confection before all is said and done. WILL YOU GIVE IN? While one piece of candy won't make or break you health, few of us stop at just. In fact, most of us see Halloween as we see every other festive occasion from Thanksgiving to our neighbor's cookout: as a perfectly good time to indulge in whichever kind of sweet temptations are presented to us. ...