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MidnighT0k3r t1_iydhfd0 wrote

This is a good thing!

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bobdvb t1_iye6yg0 wrote

I've managed to convince my kid that he doesn't like sodas.

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Otomuss t1_iyebjwz wrote

Haha. I remember when my cousins parents told him he has alcohol allergy xD. The dude was so scared of anything that contained alcohol for ao many years until he realised his parents were full of shit.

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Aridan t1_iyeccjh wrote

Ah yes, just lie to the kids instead of educating them on making good decisions. That surely has never caused any developmental problems ever.

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bobdvb t1_iyedcpu wrote

I don't really lie to him, initially I told him he was too young for soda, then time has passed, he's tried sparkling water and didn't like the bubbles. So he's convinced he won't like it, even when offered he will refuse.

On the other hand, he'll be offered to taste or smell anything now. Even alcohol he will turn his nose at, but he's too young to appreciate it anyway.

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Aridan t1_iyeexra wrote

That sounds like lying with extra steps lol.

Idk, the people who I know who have the worst relationships with food came from families that didn’t allow treats like soda and forced their kids to eat organic because “reasons”

On the other hand I’m very comfortable with food and was never given any restrictions on what I could or couldn’t have growing up (with obvious exceptions like alcohol, which I was never given growing up at all, and which I ended up with a bit of a drinking problem at one point)

Maybe that’s not science but perhaps a correlation of some kind.

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garry4321 t1_iyeoh93 wrote

Obesity (caused in large part from massive amounts of sugar intake) is literally killing twice as many people as cigarettes.

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