Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

And as you noticed, by reading the labels on the foods you had for breakfast, there's a surprising lot of sugar in things you'd never think would have it.

If your weight is where you want it to be, and your blood chemistry is where it should be, you don't have a lot to worry about, in my totally unprofessional opinion. Maybe, as you read more labels you'll make some changes in what you eat. Maybe you'll figure out a way to do more cooking from scratch. Personally, I'm not a fan of yogurt, but if I were I'd look into making it. I understand it's not hard to do.

It seems as though simply avoiding the obvious culprits, like soft drinks, obviously sugary snacks, and candy, goes a long way. But I suspect that the cookies and cakes I make from scratch actually have somewhat less sugar than those bought even at a bakery, let alone the boxed cookies at the grocery stores. Boxed cake mixes taste awful to me.

Because I like to bake I've noticed that older recipes tend to contain less sugar than the newer ones.

Here's something else I've noticed. For slightly arcane reasons I had not bought or used any ketchup for about four years. Recently I ordered a hamburger in a restaurant and put some ketchup on it. I was astonished at how incredibly sweet the ketchup was. Had I forgotten what it tasted like? How sweet it was? Or in recent years have the ketchup makers made it sweeter? I'm back to no ketchup.