The New Dangerous Sweetener

 The manufacturer, Monsanto, assures you this is safe - while adding in a substance from the EPA's most hazardous chemicals list... one that's highly flammable and is a skin, eye and respiratory irritant needing special handling techniques. Do you really want to ingest this stuff?  There is proof it could cause neurological damage...and yet the FDA is approving it.  Hmm....
Should you trust the FDA with Neotame...a new sweetener?  Check out this article....

Neotame Dangers


Deborah Mumm, The Allergy Queen


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Halloween is for Sugar Lovers

Happy Halloween!

Here are a few Halloween fun facts from the National Confectioners Association:

* 93 percent of children go trick-or-treating every year.
* Each Halloween $2 billion is spent on candy.
* 30 percent of kids report that they SORT their candy first when returning home with trick-or-treat loot
* Kids say they prefer homes that give: anything made with chocolate (68 percent) followed by lollipops (9 percent), gummy candy (7 percent) and bubble gum or chewing gum (7 percent).
* Parents favorite treats to sneak from their kids’ trick-or-treat bags are snack-size chocolate bars (70 percent sneak these), candy-coated chocolate pieces (40 percent), caramels (37 percent) and gum (26 percent).

Halloween is the most child-centered holiday of the year, with Christmas and Hannukah running closely behind. It’s also the most sugar-centric day of the year, and perhaps should be considered the grand kick-off to a season of overindulging our appetites, climaxing at Thanksgiving, ending sometime between Christmas and New Year’s Day, when we vow to shed the holiday ten.

Most of us allow our children to enjoy some of the spoils from Halloween, but doling out loads of candy over the weeks and months that follow can skew a child’s sense of the amount of sugar needed to make a treat sweet (and yummy), making healthful treats made with lower quantities of sweetener unappealing (a.k.a. yucky.)


Deborah Mumm
Healthy Environments

Are you a Choco-holic?

Greetings!
Are you a choco-holic? Do you wish you could eat chocolate every day? I actually discovered a chocolate that is HEALTHY! There are other 'healthy chocolates' on the market so I had to do some investigating into them. As you know, the Allergy Queen only picks the BEST products for her Healthy Environments site...everything for the Healthy Home.
Here are some of the benefits of TruChocolate!

• TruChocolate is an organic sugarless, dairy-free chocolate.
• An herbal formula adds additional health benefits..real cocoa, noni fruit, green tea extract!
• TruChocolate is rich in antioxidants.
• Highly effective at appetite control & stimulates fat burn.
  
• Promotes healthy blood sugar levels, yet energy levels will be high.
• Prevents tooth decay.

And BEST of all --- it is delicious!

**Let me know if you'd like to try a piece...send me your full name & address...and I'll pop one in the mail for you. Yumm......**

Life is good when you can eat healthy chocolate!

Deborah Mumm, The Allergy Queen, & now... The Cocoa Queen