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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you make something a forbidden fruit, humans want it even more?

I've always bought everything. I exposed our kids (now HS and college) to every single type of food growing up. Yes, even the FunYuns and the PopTarts and the Boo Berry Captain Crunch cereals. Why? Because I didn't want to food to be a forbidden fruit.

Skip ahead to today, and we never finish a cake or pie in our house. I throw half of it away. I've had a big bowl of Christmas bite-sized chocolates sitting on the counter since Christmas, and our DDs have not touched it. I'm eating it all very, very, very slowly and will likely throw the rest away to make room for the Easter candy.

When you make it inaccessible, you make it desireable, OP.[/quote]

For some, not all. To assume otherwise is ignorant, particularly re: dopamine and the impact of sugar and highly processed foods. For many 1 is too many and 1,000 are not enough. [/quote]

Our kids are in perfect health, and well within their BMI for their age and height. They are skinny. Their sweets consumption is low, but their friends will come over and pig out on sweets. Our kids' brain cells are rubbing together just fine, even though they had Peanut Butter Crunch that one time. [/quote]

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