Should We Abolish Trick-or-Treat?

I think you are taking much needed precautions, but the fact of the matter is that Halloween comes but once a year - it can be an exception! Letting a kid have candy once in a while will not make him obese, and eating moderate amounts will only be better.

You are absolutely right about the other causes for obesity.
What bothers me more is the way we use candy as something positive, a reward, when in fact it is a poison. It is not a harmless evil. It is a big evil, bad enough that it deserves being banished.

You should check out the debate on this subject.

You are really going to extremes on this one. You can't hold sugar soley responsible for obesity in our society. There's the lack of exercise that is more of culprit. There's fast food too.

I imagine it would be easier to abolish trick or treating than to exert parental authority. Just because kids come home with a bag of candy once a year doesn't mean they have to eat it all at once. It isn't going to make them fat in one night. It's just so much easier to ban or abolish something than to deal with, isn't it?