Roxana Soetebeer shares her personal experience with sugar and ultra-processed food addiction, describing how compulsive eating behaviors affected her life and health. She makes the case that food addiction maps onto recognizable reward-pathway conditioning in the brain, and argues that remission — rather than “cure” — is the most accurate way to describe recovery. Throughout the talk, she discusses practical strategies such as community support, accountability, and structured environments. She also highlights current efforts to formally recognize ultra-processed food addiction in medical classification systems and research. 👉 Register at `cosci.org` for our coming CoSci 2026 at on March 13-15 in Las Vegas, NV. As with this presentation from 2025, you'll see great talks from Shawn Baker, Ken Berry, Amber O'Hearn, Nick Norwitz, Bret Scher and many, many more. 🎗️And best of all – CoSci is a charity event to support the Citizen Science Foundation, a 501(c)3 Public Charity supp...