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This Halloween, parents across the country might try to limit their kids' intake of candy from their Halloween haul, forcing them to limit themselves to one or two pieces a day. But does this teach children the wrong lesson about food? Some experts say that it does. This practice raises up the candies above the level of normal foods and they become something special, something coveted, something to sneak pieces of and hide the evidence. Such habits can set a precedence that will last for the rest of kids' lives and lead to problems with compulsive eating in the future.
Instead of making candy into this exotic and much-desired item, some parents let their kids eat as much candy as they want on holidays like Halloween. They eat fairly balanced meals the rest of the time, but on those few special occasions the kids can go all-out if they want to. This teaches kids to regulate their own intake (especially if they accidentally eat themselves sick once) because they know that indulgence isn't something to constantly be sought out. The kids aren't focused for the whole day on that one piece they will be permitted after dinner and are much less likely to binge eat when they actually do have free-access to treats.
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10-31-2006 @7:56PM mark said... it worked for me. I was young once and my parents told me, "don't eat it all at once or it will be gone before you know it". but only to remind me about how much candy I had, and how it was not going to last until next halloween, let alone Christmas, the next big candy day.
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10-31-2006 @9:04PM Hawk said... Humans are designed to eat as much as they can at a sitting, right? Since we're hunter-gatherers?
You can't do that all the time. However, it's just as hard to be 100% willfull on a continuous basis - if it wasn't hard, then everyone would do it.
I've always believed in seasonal binging. Summertime, you get a good bbq or two. Fall, you get thanksgiving. christmas, you get... well, christmas dinner. I usually do new year's dinner instead since I can make asian food and not seem weird (I'm not very asian.) Spring... well, I guess there's easter (but i'm not xtian.)
It won't kill you, and it's a nice 'reward' for being good.
Isn't that why catholics have fat tuesday?
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10-31-2006 @10:52PM Adriane said... Just as a matter of keeping historical facts true- although it's correct we were hunter/gathers this did not simply mean going out and eating whatever as much as possible.
In fact, there were intricate systems of hunting and bringing food back for whole groups and keeping food for periods of cold/harsh weather. Just sayin....they didn't just shove food in their mouth whenever food presented itself. Sorry so long winded, just thought I'd clarify !
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11-01-2006 @12:48PM heather smithe said... I was told by my good friend, and dentist, let them get the candy overwith, and brushed off, rather tham prolong the rot!!!
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11-01-2006 @2:54PM Ashera said... I seem to remember hearing that the Hostess company did something similar with this. They apparently have a policy that employees can bring home as much stuff as they want. So the first couple of weeks, new employees will bring home loads of snacks. Afterwards, they'll only bring home a couple of snacks occasionally, or not at all. When they used to regulate how much employees could bring home, the employees would keep bringing stuff home for a long time, and they lost more money that way.
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11-01-2006 @3:24PM allison said... i am the child of two nutritionists who only let me have one piece of halloween candy a day until it was gone. i am now 23 years old and am confronted by candy everyday (my office is always well stocked) but i have no problems controlling myself. i also rarely overeat or overindulge in other foods. i'm not disagreeing with the post, just telling my side of the story.
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