I don’t have any children to influence, so the only one I’m currently influencing is me. However, until reading your article today, I hadn’t really realized where so many of my own poor eating habits originated. I was quick to blame it all on me, that I could’ve and should’ve made better choices along the way. I did grow up in a time when we actually ate dinner at a dinner table. At the same time I saw that picure, I witnessed relatives I lived with either reject the food in favor of chocolates, milkshakes, chips and soda or add it as another ongoing evening meal until bedtime. Sweets and snacks were not treats, they were part of the meal program I watched and incorporated. I have now had the task of breaking one habit after another. I finally realize a candy bar or or cookies or even dessert are not a necesary part of each meal. Of course, it is not perfect, nor am I at following my own new rules. The biggest thing is to now try and alter one’s screwed up metabolism at a time in life when that has naturally slowed. I know kids don’t want to hear or believe that, but maybe, like you said, there are some adults who can not only testify and be gate keepers, but truly see their children struggling with this when they reach their age. Isn’t that part of the American Dream? To see your kids have it better than you did? I don’t think that just means an MBA and three cars, the supposed good stuff. Honestly, I’d like to know, if I had children, that unnecessary struggle was not even on their radar.