Easter warnings
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After the last post, here’s a completely different sort of Easter message. According to today’s West Australian newspaper, the Cancer Council of WA is calling for supersized 1.2kg Easter eggs to be banned, and for parents to buy no more than a single 100g egg for a child.
I agree that those massive eggs are over the top, but limiting your child to just a single egg seems a bit harsh. One of the things I loved about Easter as a kid (and still do) was ending up with a huge collection of eggs of various types and sizes, which I would then work my way through over the following week or two, which was usually the school holidays. In general, allowing (most) kids to over-eat on chocolate once a year is not going to seriously harm their health, aside from the odd tummy-ache if they eat them all in one go.
Having said that, it wouldn’t hurt for some adults to take heed of this Easter warning. According to Curtin university nutrtion experts, “to burn the kilojoules in a 100g chocolate egg and not put on weight, you would have to do more than an hour of push-ups and sit-ups or medium level aerobics or walk for 140 minutes.” That’s sure a lot of hard work to compensate for just a small amount of delight.
