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[quote=Anonymous][quote]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. [/quote]

I've seen the exact opposite. My kids have some friends that eat super healthy at home and some kids who eat junk once in awhile and some who eat junk most of the time. If offered fruit and chips the ones that eat healthy are the only ones that eat more fruit. The only kids that attack the junk are the ones that eat it all the time. When I ask what they want to drink the kids from the healthy house are asking for water rather juice. The kids from the house with free flowing junk want soda which we don't give out to kids.

I also think some of the tendencies in kids that get it sometimes has more to do with taste. I have one kid that doesn't have a sweet tooth. If she gets a piece of really rich cake, she won't finish it. She'll pick water over juice but doesn't like milk very much so would pick juice over milk. My other kid loves sweets. She will always pick juice and would never leave a crumb of cake on her plate. They both were given the same foods as babies, toddlers, and eat the same meals now. They just have different preferences. [/quote]

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