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[quote=Anonymous]I have candy, chips around my house all the time.  I also only offer healthy foods, they get maybe a handful of chips and I mean like 8 potato chips in their lunch and never candy.  They always eat healthy after school snacks and whole fruit with their chips at lunch.

When they have friends over whose mom's restrict their foods, the other kids ATTACK the junk food like they are starving.  My kids never touch the candy bowl that is now sitting in our front room.

When my kids were young I got in an argument with my mother in law about candy and junk food, I was anti any junk or candy in my house at all.  My husband was in a medical residency at the time, which included a significant concentration in child psychology.  I did research on my own plus spoke with child psychology residents and professors.

The overwhelming message from all professionals and data gathered was when parents excessively CONTROL food they set their children up for body image issues and unhealthy binge eating.

I really do believe that to be true as my kids have gotten older, the parents that I know that are fanatical have impressed on their teen daughters an idea that junk food makes you fat, not an EXCESS of junk food but that any junk food makes you fat and so if they eat anything not healthy they automatically think they are fat and unattractive.

I completely relate to the original posters comments, it is a pervasive idea that one way is "good" while any other viewpoint is "bad" that sets these kids up for all sorts of body image issues and as they get older.

I really hate this area and the obsession with food, like others have said we do not have obese kids, but we do have obsessive and anxious kids...  Neither obesity or anxiety are "gifts" that I want to pass onto my kids.  so chill out!

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