I don't think just plain sugar and salt is bad for you. In fact I'm sure that salt alone isn't bad for you as it's something we need to eat to stay alive. It's all of the cheap man-made ingredients and additives that they put into food that's bad for us (like Highfructose corn syrup). I've been cooking a lot of my food from scratch lately. It tastes good and is a little healthier, but alas...it goes bad soo fast. Made some pumpkin pies from scratch for thanksgiving and left one out of the fridge and it went bad in like 3 days.