You got that right.
I have been systematically removing sugar and its cheap substitute, corn syrup, from my diet.
And if you read ingredients, they put that crap in almost everything!
If I eat canned vegetables, I rinse them out with tap water to remove as much sugar as possible.
I remember making bread from scratch--and it tasted better than any store-bought squish bread--and the stuff I made had very few ingredients--none of which was sugar or corn syrup (stuff you'll find in store bought bread).
But now I eat no bread at all on the premise that bread is an unnatural and unhealthy food our bodies were never designed to eat.
Oh, and by the way: my digestion has been trouble free, with no surprise bathroom attacks for years.
Looking back at my former American diet, it's amazing to me now how I accepted digestion malfunction as a matter of course.
We could go a long way towards lowering the cost of medical insurance in this country is people would get into the habit of shopping only the outside isles of their supermarkets... realize that low fat = high sugar ... that sugar and preservatives are the worst thing possible for us and even worse for children. That water is healthier than cokes.
Having kids means dinner at the table with conversation and healthy food; not McD's day in and out...
I feed my dogs a healthier diet than most kids eat these days... so, once again, I say it's not lack of intelligence, but lifestyle.