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It's basically a dark pattern. Not illegal or anything, but designed to mask relevant information from the consumer.

> most of the time it's goods that are unhealthy and overpriced to begin with

Like British housing, horribly overpriced and half of it has mould.

Sure, most of these items also cost next to nothing to make too and costs to actually make have barely risen (as a percentage of the item cost). So mostly it’s companies using inflation to squeeze more money out of people.

I agree that material cost is not a major component of the cost in a lot of these products.

It's marketing, distribution, etc. I don't think inflation is their excuse to squeeze more money out of you as it is to spend more in other areas of the business, as they should.

But a lot of us enjoy eating unhealthy foods. And as long as we don't have diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, etc then it's not a problem.

I think it's just a wild theory at this stage, but some doctors are saying that eating unhealthy food leads to diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure

If one is sedentary and obese, yes.