You know it is not healthy to eat sweets every day but your routine calls for some type of dessert. You know that feeling of a quick pick-me-up from a piece of cake or bowl of ice cream, but you also know how it slows you down in about an hour. You also know that it has caused you to gain five pounds. So why can’t you break the habit?

Similarly, parents indulge their children with sweets. It sometimes even becomes a type of ritual or way to appease children as they persistently nag their parent...