Okay. Okay, so no surprises on how many calories were coming in meals, but in snacks yes, because there's a lot of stuff that you kind of don't consider when you're just noshing here and there and it kind of adds up.
No sooner had heavily advertised sweets and snacks taken their toll on the waistlines of those who could afford to indulge than slimming came into vogue, creating a market for dieting aids and low-fat foods as lucrative as that for the products that had caused the weight problem in the first place.