I stopped drinking and stopped smoking tobacco, but I got the same kind of "hangover" I used to get after a night of binge drinking on basically nothing but really salt heavy foods.

(Some were salty, then doubly sugary to cover it up, which is so very American)

It spiked my anxiety to 11, probably as an effect of an elevated heart rate?

I used to be much less healthy, but I also often made a lot of decisions I wouldn't make if I could have bought the foods folks told me were healthy with the same ease as a Wendy's hamburger.

I hope one day to go back to Japan, at leas there for about the equivalent of five dollars you could eat a non fancy, but healthy meal, even if you didn't know enough Japanese to navigate some of the more complex dishes -- I forget the name, but they had these hockey puck or triangular things that were rice, seaweed, and a soft boiled egg or something that weren't exactly "low carb" but relatively low glycemic).

Maybe we should find a way to tax overly salty stuff like some places do sugary drinks, so stuff like a rice ball surrounding a hard boiled egg become a stereotypical budget food for students or bloggers or whatever.