News, Ho-ho-hold on there! Poinsettias aren't poisonous? Sugar doesn't make kids hyper? (Toronto, body)

[John1960]

TORONTO - Are you one of those who knows for a fact that poinsettias are poisonous and that candy canes and sugar plums will have the kids dancing on their hyperactive heads this Christmas?

You wear hats in winter because you know most of your body heat is lost through your head? You avoid eating at night because you know it will make you fat? You are certain that suicides peak over the holidays and that somewhere there exists a nostrum that will cure the hangover that will threaten to crush your head New Year's Day?

Ho-ho-hold on there! Poinsettias aren't poisonous? Sugar doesn't make kids hyper?

[Whyte Byrd]

There's always a new report coming out debunking the last and back and forth it goes. As for sugar, it's the bleaching and processing of it that makes kids

[Janipoo]

I heard about these on the news this week. The one that baffled me was about chocolate to dogs, they said dark chocolate is really bad for them and for the light, they would have to eat alot for them to get sick.

What is in dark chocolate? Now they say it is good for us but worse for dogs .

[PA2UK]

I assume milk chocolate is diluted with milk so there's not as much pure chocolate in it? Or something like that, I don't know exactly how chocolate is made.

All I know is that my cousins dog got a hold of about a pound of fudge one time. Puked it's guts out all over the place but did not need medical attention.