They add inches to your waistline, make a dent in your wallet, and can even make you depressed—so the news that Americans are buying less cakes, cookies, and pies than ever is more than welcome. Sales of store-bought baked goods like these declined by 24 percent since 2005, according to a report in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Unfortunately, manufacturers aren’t taking the hint: The study also found that newly released baked goods were no healthier than existing products.

Wishing you merry Christmas! We live by believing but not by seeing! We walk by faith but not by sight! May we all be free from suffering! Eyes can only provide the sight but it is the heart that that gives insight