I strongly agree that kids should "learn" how to eat sweets and "forbidden" foods. When I was kid, we were NEVER allowed sugar foods, cookies, soda, chips, ice cream, and I mean NEVER. Hence, I am an addict...can't eat a little...its the whole bag or nothing. As a child I had friends who had candy/junk all over their house and they rarely if ever touched it. They didn't feel like it would be gone forever. Their Halloween candy would last months until they threw it away and mine would be gone before I got home...lol! To this day, I partly blame my relationship with junk food based on the fact that it was forbidden as a child.

I say it can be part of a very healthy diet in moderation.