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A healthy tradition

 

When I opened the Oct. 28 Parade, I noticed a change in of one of our Halloween traditions on the cover. As a kid, we enjoyed the annual “ducking for apples” and “apples on a string.” But the Parade cover shows a mom and daughter with doughnuts on a string.

What has changed over the past years in our diet is the addition of food such as doughnuts and the elimination of things like apples — “They keep the doctor away,” said my grandmother.

Our kids and grandkids will still duck for apples and play apple on a string this year. Not necessarily because of our interest in nutrition, but, equally, because of our interest in American tradition.

Tom Walby, Palmetto Bay

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