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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop giving you children so much unhealthy food & sugar from an early age. Also, don't ban it either. Moderation and a variety of foods are key. And stop blaming genetics for everything. Genetics have not changed so drastically over the past 50 years. The way we consume food has. But yes, blame it all on that sugar addiction your child was born with. lol[/quote]

In fact I said the opposite- he doesn’t like sweets at all.  We were both raised on the same diet (think healthy Asian diet) yet I have a extremely hard time resisting sweets.  Kid doesn’t.  Plus science clearly states genetics are in play.  So it is super annoying when people smugly announce their kids don’t have issues bc of how they were raised.  They just got lucky their kid didn’t pull that gene card.  Over the past few weeks I’ve read several DCUM posts from parents struggling with a child’s sweet tooth.  The parents don’t seem to be feeding the kids particularly poorly.  The kids are just predisposed to love sweets. [/quote]

Also you are right that we have changed in 50 years as far as food we consume. Those with the addiction issue have a much harder time nowadays bc sweets are everywhere and sugar is in everything. [/quote]

This is what has been hardest for us. Sure, when she was little we could feed her in the way we wanted her to eat, but as soon as she started going to birthday parties, play dates, overnights at grandparents, and even DC school where they give daily snack (most parents bring goldfish, nilla wafers, pirate booty, etc.), she's gotten LOTS of non-parent-approved snacks and sweets and LOVES them. She loves baking and now that she's old enough to do it independently, loved making lots of yummy treats. She is active, does sports, and eats a varied and nutritionally balanced diet, but I do worry about how much she *craves* dessert every day because I don't want to make it a food "thing" but I also don't want her to have no limits with it either. I have a huge sweet tooth and my dh likes sweets sometimes but can usually take or leave them.

So yes. My dd had and loved the most impressive baby diet you could imagine, and is still an adventurous eater who gets plenty of veggies. And she still places sugar goodies on a pedestal.[/quote]

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