Dr. Shebani Sethi

continuing to eat these things despite knowing the adverse consequences to it, and repeated attempts to try to quit, right? I'm describing addiction here, basically, and the consumption of larger quantities over time than intended.

continuing to eat these things despite knowing the adverse consequences to it, and repeated attempts to try to quit, right? I'm describing addiction here, basically, and the consumption of larger quantities over time than intended.

It's So sugar is an addictive substance. It's not Just something we say it has a straightforward neurochemical basis in the brain just like any other drug and I think of sugar as a It's a recreational food. It's not a food that's essential for survival. We make sugar through the process of gluconeogenesis, through other foods that we consume. It's really about excess carbohydrates.

It's So sugar is an addictive substance. It's not Just something we say it has a straightforward neurochemical basis in the brain just like any other drug and I think of sugar as a It's a recreational food. It's not a food that's essential for survival. We make sugar through the process of gluconeogenesis, through other foods that we consume. It's really about excess carbohydrates.

It's So sugar is an addictive substance. It's not Just something we say it has a straightforward neurochemical basis in the brain just like any other drug and I think of sugar as a It's a recreational food. It's not a food that's essential for survival. We make sugar through the process of gluconeogenesis, through other foods that we consume. It's really about excess carbohydrates.

Exactly, yeah. Actually, I would like to share a story about this. Just during the era of COVID, since we're in it, just to give context as to why I wrote about this and why I'm working on this as well and continuing to feel motivated to continue to do my work is The shelter-in-place order had come, you know, a couple months back for my county, and I'm in California. I live in Menlo Park.

Exactly, yeah. Actually, I would like to share a story about this. Just during the era of COVID, since we're in it, just to give context as to why I wrote about this and why I'm working on this as well and continuing to feel motivated to continue to do my work is The shelter-in-place order had come, you know, a couple months back for my county, and I'm in California. I live in Menlo Park.

Exactly, yeah. Actually, I would like to share a story about this. Just during the era of COVID, since we're in it, just to give context as to why I wrote about this and why I'm working on this as well and continuing to feel motivated to continue to do my work is The shelter-in-place order had come, you know, a couple months back for my county, and I'm in California. I live in Menlo Park.

When it was announced, my husband, he's an infectious disease physician at Stanford, and I'm a psychiatrist and a medicine physician, as you... mentioned, we both felt doubly invested in this pandemic. We went to our neighborhood Safeway grocery store and we saw many people loading up their carts with Pop-Tarts, Hawaiian Punch, popcorn, anything ultra processed, basically.

When it was announced, my husband, he's an infectious disease physician at Stanford, and I'm a psychiatrist and a medicine physician, as you... mentioned, we both felt doubly invested in this pandemic. We went to our neighborhood Safeway grocery store and we saw many people loading up their carts with Pop-Tarts, Hawaiian Punch, popcorn, anything ultra processed, basically.

When it was announced, my husband, he's an infectious disease physician at Stanford, and I'm a psychiatrist and a medicine physician, as you... mentioned, we both felt doubly invested in this pandemic. We went to our neighborhood Safeway grocery store and we saw many people loading up their carts with Pop-Tarts, Hawaiian Punch, popcorn, anything ultra processed, basically.

And they weren't loading up their carts with fresh vegetables or, you know, they were out of cookies at the grocery store.

And they weren't loading up their carts with fresh vegetables or, you know, they were out of cookies at the grocery store.

And they weren't loading up their carts with fresh vegetables or, you know, they were out of cookies at the grocery store.

And toilet paper, exactly. And there were still, you know, produce left in the store. It wasn't like they ran out of produce.

And toilet paper, exactly. And there were still, you know, produce left in the store. It wasn't like they ran out of produce.

And toilet paper, exactly. And there were still, you know, produce left in the store. It wasn't like they ran out of produce.

No. Here I was at the checkout counter and I was thinking to myself, staring at the person's cart in front of me that was full of the recreational food, as I mentioned, the food that's not necessary for survival and detrimental to our health. I thought to myself, this is certainly not preparing them for the pandemic. or helping their immune system and, if anything, weakening it.

No. Here I was at the checkout counter and I was thinking to myself, staring at the person's cart in front of me that was full of the recreational food, as I mentioned, the food that's not necessary for survival and detrimental to our health. I thought to myself, this is certainly not preparing them for the pandemic. or helping their immune system and, if anything, weakening it.

No. Here I was at the checkout counter and I was thinking to myself, staring at the person's cart in front of me that was full of the recreational food, as I mentioned, the food that's not necessary for survival and detrimental to our health. I thought to myself, this is certainly not preparing them for the pandemic. or helping their immune system and, if anything, weakening it.