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--- In , "lee33183" <lee33183@y...> wrote:
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> All this talk about kids and sugar jarred some memories of my 
> youngest son (he is now 20) As I look back he was born a natural 
> NOSer. Every birthday he wouldn't eat his birthday cake. I don't 
> think he tried it until he was about 5 and then only if he was 
> hungry. 
....There was a time when Richard could take around 20 minutes to 
eat 1 cookie... He savored it...He played with it. He got half of it 
on his face and not in it :) In my mind, I kept thinking, we aren't 
born with an overeating "gene" we learn this behavior, and wished 

that I could be more like him, the roles reversed, as he was now the 
model :)

That is the strange thing, till this day he only eats if he is 
hungry which is usually meals and eats normal. And he doesn't 
> snack for the sake of snacking. 

...God Bless Him Lee, we are the strange ones, he was choosing to 
eat when hungry, which in the best of all worlds, *is* normal.

I think I brought the wrong baby 
> home from the hospital. 

...I'm sure you most certainly did not! Let him be your role model :)
Love,
Deb