{"id":1063,"date":"2008-03-26T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/03\/26\/cravings-and-denial....\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T19:01:09","slug":"cravings-and-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"Cravings and denial&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couldn&#8217;t have said it better myself, having parented three kids&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>My point is that we learn to crave what we are denied. It&#8217;s a perversity of human nature, but it&#8217;s also rather universal.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/26\/dining\/26pour.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;pagewanted=all\">Dr. Vaillant<\/a> compared 136 men who were alcoholics with men<br \/>\nwho were not. Those who grew up in families where alcohol was forbidden<br \/>\nat the table, but was consumed away from the home, apart from food,<br \/>\nwere seven times more likely to be alcoholics that those who came from<br \/>\nfamilies where wine was served with meals but drunkenness was not<br \/>\ntolerated.He concluded that teenagers should be taught to enjoy wine with<br \/>\nfamily meals, and 25 years later Dr. Vaillant stands by his<br \/>\nrecommendation&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taken from Craving and denial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couldn&#8217;t have said it better myself, having parented three kids&#8230; &#8220;My point is that we learn to crave what we are denied. It&#8217;s a perversity of human nature, but it&#8217;s also rather universal.&#8221; &#8220;Dr. Vaillant compared 136 men who were alcoholics with men who were not. Those who grew up in families where alcohol was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}