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In our family we speak of "three days of detox" after the kids do a 
chocolate binge.  They don't sleep well, they're unbelievably moody, cranky, 
inattentive and depressed.
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That's interesting, Jim.  It reminds me of a man I used to know who had 
custody of his three children.  He didn't allow them to have any chocolate 
or any form of candy during the year except two or three times ea. year when 
he served the children a "candy/chocolate dinner."  The dinner was entirely 
candy - many different kinds filling up a large bowl in the center of the 
table.  He gave the children knives, spoons, forks, napkins so that the meal 
was eaten much like a normal dinner.

The children just loved the all-candy meal party; got upset stomachs; went 
to bed.  That cured them of their candy cravings until the next dinner 
several months away.  Overall, they were extremely healthy children who ate 
mostly fish their father had caught, meat he had hunted and vegetables/fruit 
from their garden.  His motto was to eat almost anything that crawled, 
walked across or flew over his property.  I always thought he had an 
interesting approach to "helping" his family avoid candy i.e., give them a 
huge amount every four months or so, let them eat themselves sick and then 
go almost paleo until the next binge.

Kath