Too Much Junk

I think I may need to revise my "will only eat unhealthy food in social situations offering food" to "will only eat unhealthy food in very special social situations." Needless to say, eating junk almost three days in a row (brownie and pudding and a corn dog at cg, 3 root beer floats over 2 days at my mother's house, white bread and a brownie and coke zero at an art demo) resulted in a low level migraine for three days and plenty of my stomach and joints just generally disliking me. That said, brownies are awesome. I am not disappointed by brownies. LOL.

And, so, my feelings about sweets make it very strange that they are such a standard in our culture. I wanted to thank my references for writing me such wonderful letters for grad school. So, yesterday, I went to Wholefoods and picked out a special thing for each of them from the pastry case. I did it because culturally this is an acceptable gift. But am I poisoning them? Surely they would not prefer a boiled egg and a green pepper as a thank you.