Sugar addiction?

Do you think that if you ate a lot of sugar as a kid that you would be more prone to sweets or addicted to sugar as an adult? And what do you think "a lot of sugar" would be? I must admit that I allow my child to have sugar. He gets syrup on his pancakes. He gets juice that's not watered down and a couple of times a month, he even gets an ice cream cone. I don't consider this excessive. But I have a friend who limits the sugar of her kid and I asked why and she said that she was addicted to sugar and she didn't want her kid to be. And I understand this except that I am not sure I agree. I wonder if people who are not sugar people are just born that way and people that want sugar just want sugar and that the word addiction doesn't apply here. Could I go cold turkey from sweets? Sure I could but I don't want to. Could I go cold turkey from caffeine? Heck no. I would be bed with a migraine. But I keep reading all these websites about how sugar is physically addictive and I just don't buy it. I think think it is a self control problem.

But that leads me to my second pondering which is not allowing your child to have a cookie when they are young going to help them that much. And how long do you keep them from cookies? Assuming that they ever go to an Easter egg hunt, a friends' house, church, school...they are going to be exposed to sweets. So what's the point of trying to make them completely abstain when they are two. Obviously too much sweets can sabotage good eating habits in a two year old. But I can tell you that my child is not going to eat pot roast or chicken or green beans regardless of whether or not I give him a cookie once in awhile.

So whereas I don't think my friend is doing in harm in abstaining her child from sweets. I also don't think there is any harm in my moderation. And I still don't believe in sugar addiction.