Re: eating habits as a child (was: kids)

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<<thanks for your imput..... as a child, my mom did limit my sweets.....wish

someone did a study!

does anyone here know what they grew up on (type 2's) maybe we can do a

little study of our own.

lizz>>

My sweets were limited as a child too. We almost never had dessert and we

almost never ate out... We ate for the most part healthily. Then, all of

the sudden, I was just hungry all the time and I ate bowls of cereal between

meals a lot. I was hungry immediately after eating, too. I gained weight

(about 15 lbs, I think) and they diagnosed me at 13 (I got a kidney

infection and had sugar in my urine)...

My husband, on the other hand, has never had his sweets limited and IMO, his

family eats horribly! He eats probably 2 - 5 Little Debbies / day, he has

at least 3 - 6 cans of pop / day, and he eats ice cream by the 1/4 gallon!!

Oh, I almost forgot to mention the 5 Big Macs he can put away at one

sitting!

All this from a guy who is 5' 11 " and weights 180 lbs...

I cannot believe how he eats. I have told him that he *cannot* teach our

kids to eat that way - especially since diabetes runs in my family. We

never had can of pop at my house, ever.

I am glad you brought it up. It is kind of a problem at our house. He has

grown up eating like this and doesn't see a problem with it. I can stay

away from his Little Debbies - he makes sure to buy the ones I don't like.

And the pop is no problem whatsoever for me (I can't stand the taste of

regular pop!).

He is trying to cut back on the sweets and pop, and he is doing much better

(he won't go without Dr. Pepper in the house, though), but I am still

worried about what we are going to be teaching our future children. I think

we should have a very limited amount of pop in the house (keep it to a can

or less / day) and I would like to incorporate a small amount of desserts

weekly (like 2 - 3 times / week). I don't want to over do it, but I really

believe that if the sweets are limited too much, when they are on their own,

they will eat it like no tomorrow.

I saw a study in a magazine (I can't remember which, sorry) where children

who were given sweets regularly were put in a room by themselves with a

table full of candy. They had a minimal amount, or none at all (there were

other activities in the room).

On the other hand, children were put in a room by themselves who had never

given sweets often. These children gorged themselves on the candy. Like

they felt they were never going to get any again. I can definitely identify

with this. I hardly ever ate sweets before diagnosis, then definitely not

after. But once I started college and was half-way on my own (still at

home), I went crazy with eating sweets. This was the 1 - 2 year period just

before I went back to the doctor and gained control. I just went through a

period where I didn't care. My A1c was 12% when I finally went back to the

doctor...

This is just my $.02 and a little venting about my bad hubby who is *trying*

Þ

D.

Christian, EDD: December 21, 2001