This year, 95% of the 172 million Americans celebrating Halloween plan to buy candy, according to one recent survey. That’s significantly higher than the number of people planning to purchase ...

Dr. Valerie Weiss, a pediatrician at The Vancouver Clinic, and Sharla Wiest, a registered dietitian at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, offer some tips to keep kids from overdoing it on Halloween ...

It's the day after Halloween. The costumes have been worn, the tricks have been treated and the candy has been collected. Now there is only one thing left to consider: That's right, it's the calories.

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I bought a couple of bags of "fun size" candy bars about a month ago, and about a week later every little fun-size one of those bad boys was gone. And you know what? I feel fine about that. I knew ...

Could you imagine trick-or-treating as a kid and getting Oreos instead of candy? I'd be a happy camper, because there's nothing like snacking on a sleeve of "Milk's Favorite Cookie." Don't get me ...

Maybe you have them marked down on a map. Or maybe you know where they are by heart. You study them, remember year after year which street to turn down. You might even leave your own neighborhood and ...

Snickers is giving away 1 million bags of fun-size candy bars. Snickers had said it would give away the candy if a viral online Change.org petition to change the date of Halloween to the last Saturday ...

Full-size candy bars are the holy grail of Halloween. For many trick-or-treaters, they are seen as the ultimate bounty—a proper, grown-up Snickers or Milky Way with which to mock less-fortunate peers ...

Absent the ghoulish and the foolish, Halloween can be a fun holiday for the young. Whether dressed as Superman, Batman or Popeye the Sailor Man, many of us have warm memories of trick-or-treating on ...

Halloween preparation as an adult is hard. When you were a kid, the only responsibility you had was figuring out your costume and deciding whether or not to bring one large garbage bag with you ...