... if you think KNOWING better will actually make me DO better. I have my doubts.
HRH and I discussed this, too, lucylee. He asks isn't it still our responsibility if, after we have learned (as he and I have) that sugar/flours products are not good for us, we continue to eat them. Or, (as with us) cutting back but not enough to insure that it won't affect weight/health.
But then, that's the rub. How many things have people easily stopped (or started) and never looked back, because they found out they were good for them, and so they "just did it". People make changes all the time - modifying behavior because of new information on safety, or privacy, or a dr's recommendation, etc. They don't have problems with it - people are very capable of learning how to better take care of themselves. That's because there is no addiction involved - nothing is physically pressuring them to backslide.
But what if there was biochemical pressure at work, nagging a person constantly to unbuckle his seat belt? A craving to reach down and hit that release button. Well, then, that person would probably be more likely to do unsafe driving, and might have a serious problem to health down the road (literally down the road, in his case) , because of it. DUH. How can one stand up to "cravings" when they are an over-simplified word for "addiction" these days?
Anyway, just something to think about when we are blaming ourselves. I've always liked snacks, but throughout my childhood/teenaged years and young adulthood, probably nobody was tinkering with their products to hook me the way they are now. There was no such thing as high fructose corn syrup, for instance. Sweeteners weren't usually put into crackers/chips but now HFCS is in there. (check out the change in ingredient lists, even for good old saltines) MSG by a bunch of names is in foods now, where it didn't use to be. Those boxes all up and down the center of the grocery aisles are boxes of ~~~pressure~~~.
Btw, I weigh more than when you first met me, too.