Short excerpt from a YouTube interview in which speakers discuss how cravings can become self-perpetuating and contrast evolutionary drives for sweet/starchy foods with modern ultra-processed foods; one speaker warns that eating ultra-processed food can "fry your brain eventually."
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It sounds like kind of like a never ending cycle. You give into the cravings and you have more cravings. Is that kind of.
Absolutely, yeah. They're self perpetuating. People talk about sugar addiction and all this and that, and I don't even know what that means. Because it's okay to have a desire in certain circumstances. If you're out on the plains of Africa and you have no food, you're gonna. Your brain wants you to go find some fruit, for example, which is sweet or starches, you know, that's the quickest way to get your energy replaced. They didn't have Twinkies and Big Macs back then. And so today, when people crave that stuff, that's the bad stuff. And ultra processed food is what? You know, if you ate fruit, no problem. If you eat ultra processed food, you're going to fry your brain eventually.