Autumn is a great time for costume parties, scary movies, family gatherings — and spontaneous sugar binges. Indeed, come autumn, sugary candy, drinks and sweets are everywhere: candy bowls and home-baked treats appear in offices, while candy proliferates in households with trick-or-treating children. The ubiquity of sweets is enough to make even the most health-conscious among us slip a little.
But if you don't often eat candy, you might wonder if a spontaneous binge is something to actually worry about. Is "borrowing" ten or twelve Reese's from your kids' Halloween bag really all that bad for your body if you avoid high amounts of processed sugar for most of the rest of the year? And what is actually happening inside our guts when we do eat too much sugar once in a while?
