Ham is real food. The question is ... what’s on the ham or what is it being served with ... sauce, glaze, etc. The ‘traditional’ glaze/sauces are usually loaded with sugar.
I just bought half a (real food) hog ... pasture raised, delicious.
I think it is sodas. When I go back to Alabama, I am amazed at the amount of full sugar sodas I see obese adults drinking there. It’s almost like the Baptists went full tilt boogie on sugary sodas because they aren’t supposed to drink alcohol.
It really grosses me out to see the constant refills some of these people do. I think some of those people are drinking over 1500 calories a day just on sodas.
And while YOU know this, others may not:
Shop the PERIMETER of your Grocery Store. Even places like Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods are set up to have the ‘real food’ around the edges and the junk in the middle.