That is definitely true for adult fats with years of shitty ingrained habits, but kids are NOT addicted to food. They have our species' built-in proclivity to consume sweet foods and to gorge themselves when an abundance of food is present. Good parents train their children not to eat until they puke, just as they will later train their teenagers not to hump everything they can get to stay still. It doesn't bother me when little kids buy sweets with their pocket money. It bothers me when their schools and their parents make that shit available 24/7 and the HAES crowd encourages it.