Like most young children, I adored candy. My parents often retell the story of the night where a seven-year-old me emerged from my slumber with smudged chocolate and sticky candy all over my face and hair. In one night, I had eaten a half a pound of Halloween candy. However, despite my late-night binge of Halloween candy, I believe that my relationship with sugar as a child is atypical to most other kids' experience. Throughout most of my childhood, I almost always had Oreos, cookies, and ice cream in my pantry or fridge available to me. At the same time however, the ready abundance of sugar available to me almost seem to make sweets less special. While most kids saw sugar as a treat or reward, I had always had a great amount of sugar accessible for consumption whether or not I did something good or bad. Although I enjoyed my sugared snacks, I equally enjoyed healthy snacks too – like vegetables, raisins, yogurt, and other unsweetened munchies. I