10/31/08 Halloween & Dietary Guidelines

Halloween & Dietary Guidelines. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report. This is probably not the best time to be talking about dietary guidelines with a bunch candy around the house for the trick or treaters but it is time for the next version of the 2010 guidelines to be addressed. These guidelines on what we are supposed to consume each day are revisited and revised every 5 years. Ever since 1894 the Department of Ag has been telling us what we should eat. A lot of things have changed since then and it will be interesting to see what the latest version will be. Tonight is Halloween or what we call Halloween. Anne Effland, USDA historical expert, explaining how we got the term, "Halloween". EFFLAND: All Saints is the church holiday. All Saints Day. And it's also been called All Hallows Day because it's for all the saints are hallowed member of the church or people we honor. And so Halloween is All Hallows Eve, the night before All Hallows Day so it's shortened to Hallo E'en for even or that is the evening before and now we just call it Halloween. But it is associated, you know the name comes directly from that church holiday. Now here's today's Washington Grange Report. (GRANGE) That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.