Speaking of juice. My daughter never had it as a kid. Formula and
water. She gave up her own bottle at exactly one year. Her doctor told
me juice was just candy for babies. She still isnt a juice baby. We
drink fat free milk and  and ice water.

I dunno.  I've never had a sweet tooth much.  At my absolute worst, I
ate maybe one chocolate bar a year.  Never was strongly tempted by that
stuff.

My mom was strict about sugar.  Our Easter baskets were mostly toys,
not candy.
She threw out most of the Halloween candy.  She didn't buy cakes or
cookies or candy, but fruit and yogurt and such for snacks.  Other kids
got Twinkies in their lunch, I got carrot sticks.  Our regular drinks
were milk, water and juice - though not so much on the juice.  A big
deal was if we got a good report card every nine weeks, we could go to
Friendly's and get an ice cream.

I never developed a sweet tooth at all.  But not developing a sweet
tooth didn't help me a bit.

We were Italian and ate piles of pasta regualrly.  Also, lots of bread.
Because I never ate much sugar as a kid or as an adult, I figure the
diabetes developed largely from an overly  starch-heavy diet.  My mom
was very strict about sugar, but no one had ever explained to her that
starch was the same damned thing.  And I had an inborn tendency to
diabetes also, my dad was diabetic - so a starch-heavy diet meant I was
gonna develop diabetes too.  Genetics makes a big difference.

My husband grew up in a bakery.  His mom built a business out of
decorating cakes.  There were leftover cakes in his house pretty much
constantly.  He just grew up with all this sugar as a regular thing.
No one could bribe him to get good grades with sugar cause it was a
constant part of his diet!

He eats a lot better than he used to, what with my vegetable-pushing
influence in his life, but most of his life has been fileld with crap
food.  And he's never been more than a few pounds overweight.  And
after 4 decades of a high-sugar diet, the guy's bg stays rock-solid
even after knocking off a big bunch of sugar.  He just doesn't have the
genetics to have the problems I do.

My daughter wasn't raised as strictly as I was.  I figured my mom made
sugar seem a bit too forbidden, and therefore we were a tad too anxious
to eat cookies at a friend's house.  But I *do* believe in real foods,
so that's primarily what was provided.  First time she ever tasted
white sugar was her first birthday cake.  But she'd been drinking apple
juice for months and eating stewed fruits I ran through the food
processor, so she was kinda used to sugar.  And even the pure white
stuff wasn't verbotten or anything, just very occasional.

She went through a period for about 2 months when she was 3 or 4 where
the *only* thing she ate for a couple months was milk and cheese.  I
figured on not making a big fight over it and she'd get over it.  A bit
over a decade later, she was vegan!  Heh.

I find it kinda kewl to go grocery shopping with her now that she's on
her own.  She buys bags of baby carrots, mangoes, bags of frozen
vegetables, lots of canned veggies too, chicken and turkey based cold
cuts, cheese, milk and she insists on whole grain breads even when
crappy stuff is on sale.  She buys some junk too, just that... a young
kid on her own doing her own shopping who *could* buy any kind of crap
she wanted, and she buys almost all real food with no prompting.

Yeah, there's a big difference between the icing on graham crackers
that we used to have for an after-school snack, and a kid nowadays
drinking soda all day.  Some of our food wasn't healthy, but it's
gotten exponentially worse.  I didn't develop any of the health
problems that go along with a high-carb diet until after several years
of punishing my body with a constant diet of pizza, chips, and
Mountain Dew.