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- Beth Buczynski
- April 8, 2012
- 9:30 am
- 121 comments
If you participated in the Easter holiday, it’s likely that chocolate, jelly beans and other pastel-colored candies have found their way into your cupboards and easter baskets.
To a child, there are few things as exciting as a holiday that promises baskets of candy, but it’s important for adults to remember that moderation is a virtue.
If you’ve ever wondered just how much candy Americans consume over the Easter holiday, this infographic has all the sinfully-delicious details.
![Easter by the Numbers [infographic]](http://degreesearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/easter_infographic.jpg)
Via: DegreeSearch.org
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Read more: Children, Conscious Consumer, Easter, Eating for Health, Family, Food, Holidays, Holidays & Gifts, Life, candy, Easter basket, eating, health, obesity
Beth Buczynski
Beth is a freelance writer and editor living in the Rocky Mountain West. So far, Beth has lived in or near three major U.S. mountain ranges, and is passionate about protecting the important ecosystems they represent. Follow Beth on Twitter as @ecosphericblog or check out her blog.
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WONDERFUL REMINDER and info! Thanks to all our Military, past and present and also OUR First Resp…
awesome.
Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Gail.
Very interesting. I hope I can see it but I´m afraid I won´t see it in my area in southe…
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+ add your ownMakes my teeth hurt just thinking about all that candy.
duh
Eating junk food now and then isn't really much of an issue, as long as it is a special treat for special occasions. What bothers me more is that so much of the chocolate we buy is produced in part through slave labor, and often child slaves. (It's not really okay if the slaves are adults, but enslaving children and forcing them to work is really nasty, and that's where a good chunk of our non-fair-trade cocoa comes from.)
meh, there's bigger things to whine about
Those 4% who said you should eat the bunnies' butts first must be perverted or something xD
Sorry I'm not being serious about the nastyness of junk food; I love it and think its your responsibility to be wise about it and have it in moderation instead of blaming mega corporations or holidays or whatever.
this is gross;my kids get some small something they want or like
I ate black jelly beans , chocolate eggs and , of course. marshmallow peeps....and promptly had a stomach ache the next day . probably because I do not eat that crap .Unfortunately , I will probably repeat this scenario next year....
My granddaughter has more candy and chocolate than she should eat in a year and most it is now nicely hidden out of sight. No candy from us though - we bought her a kite and summer PJ's. As children, we never got a lot at Easter - usually just a solid chocolate bunny, some bubbles, a skipping rope or some spring toy and usually a new dress to wear to church on Easter Sunday.
Some of us do.
I'm glad I lost my liking for chocloate and all that sweet stuff a long time ago, I can still enjoy Easter though lol
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