Extracted from a longer post on my friend sunnystarfish‘s blog:

“If children and youth were trained and educated to habits of self-denial and self-control, if they were taught that they eat to live instead of living to eat, there would be less disease and less moral corruption. There would be little necessity for temperance crusades,… if in the youth, who form and fashion society, right principles in regard to temperance could be implanted. They would then have moral worth and moral integrity to resist, in the strength of Jesus, the pollutions of these last days.”

Ellen White, Counsels on Health, p. 609 — written about 100 years ago … what would she say today???

Her post goes on to describe an experiment with 4-year-olds and marshmallows … interesting. Especially for you parents and soon-to-be parents out there.