Have Some Water on Halloween!
Trying to think of what to eat and drink for this Halloween? (Besides candy, of course.) Make sure to add water to your list!
Water makes your metabolism burn calories 3% faster so that you can survive through the candy binge without too much extra weight gain. (Check out other ways to help fight fat through intake besides water drinking.) It’s also easy for you to mistake your body’s thirst for water and eat candy when your body is really just crying out for some good ol’ H20! If you’re one of those people that thinks that water doesn’t have a flavor, try pumpkin spiced tea with your water to give it an extra Halloween spook.
And make sure your children are hydrated this Halloween as well. When you are out trick or treating, as fun as it is for the kids, it is still considered physical movement (often with screaming and laughing children running at full speed down the sidewalks) that exerts energy and needs rehydration to sustain. Water is a crucial element in our everyday lives that we easily slip up when the holiday-of-sugar is involved.
That doesn’t mean to hand water bottles out in the empty pillow sacks and pumpkin heads this Halloween, though; children only get to be children once, so make sure to have plenty of candies available for your neighborhood ghosts, witches, princesses and super heroes on Halloween evening.
Here’s some other fun reads about water to get you excited about your H20 during your trick or treats:
