Sugary foods really throw me a loop also, I try to avouid them, luckily am not a sugar or cake lover, never have been. Everything in moderation in that corner for me. Cake may also contain baking soda with aluminum in it. You can make your own with non-alum baking powder/soda (Red Mill makes non-aluminun baking products) and use xylitol instead of sugar, even honey. Only cane sugar does that to me, I am fine with honey etc. Can't comment on sugar substitutes like sucralose or aspartame (ughh) because I haven't eaten anything with them in years.

I've read a lots of nasty stuff about wheat, probably all true, but I continue to eat it, haven't found a good viable bread/pasta subsitute I guess. I suppose we could make all of our bread/pasta but I really haven't got the time. I maybe will get into a habit of throwing soem stuff together with yeast and just do it, bread is really easy to make. The Red Mill products seem pretty good, they have brown rice flour which is an option, bean powders, flax meal. Still the pasta... because I eat a lot of pesto in the summer. A pain to make pasta have tried it before. I am a bit nervous about buying wheat products these days that's a fact. I bought some whole wheat noodles several months ago, hodgens mill I think, and they gave me quite a stomach ache. Maybe some chinese fillers in there or handfuls of sevin dust who knows.

Cilantro helps my head a lot btw, although many here seem tio shun it. It really helps keep my head clear. Another favorite an affordable item of mine is the colonic to clear the gut of mercury that gets dumped there from chelating, or even just my mouth. I have been paying attention to the way I feel and it seems a colonic is necessary for me about 3-4 weeks to avoid lower back pain/ burning, and weak stomach/colon mucles, and other related weird mercury/toxin stuff.