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" When I was growing up, my parents had the &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot; house. Translation: We had every kind of junk food imaginable. My friends loved to come over and raid the cabinets for cookies, soda, candy and chips. And that&amp;#x27;s why I&amp;#x27;m convinced I&amp;#x27;m a healthy eater today. Bear with me...Yes, I still have a soft spot for orange junk food. But I have developed strategies (like hiding bags of chips) to keep overeating in check. Plus, because junk food was never banned growing up, my sister and I never binged on cookies like our other friends. Yesterday, I came across this hilarious essay in The New York Times Magazine about a kid who has to sneak junk food because his parents won&amp;#x27;t let him have it. He trades homework for Pringles, goes to sleepovers so he can have chocolate and secretly devours entire tubs of cheese puffs with his dad on the way home from the grocery store. But with all things taboo, the allure of pizza, fries and ranch dressing wore off when he was an adult and could make his own food choices. Did your parents keep junk food in the house or was it forbidden? How does it affect your eating habits now? And what&amp;#x27;s your all-time favorite junk food? Photo: iStock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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