Nutrition & diet science Videos Recommended on Hacker News (60)
Nutrition & diet science is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 60 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 197 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Nutrition: diets, metabolism, seed oils, sugar, fasting, gut microbiome, food science debunking, supplements, obesity, evidence-based eating, dietary controversies.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Sugar: THE BITTER TRUTH: “This is one of the best nutritional videos I've ever seen.” — an HN commenter, 2010.
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12 mo on HNSugar: THE BITTER TRUTH
9 mo on HNDr. Michael Greger | How Not To Die | Talks at Google
8 mo on HNEating less Meat won't save the Planet. Here's Why
8 mo on HNDr. Jason Fung - 'Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem'
7 mo on HNMinding your mitochondria | Dr. Terry Wahls | TEDxIowaCity
6 mo on HNWhat Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health
6 mo on HNNina Teicholz - 'Vegetable Oils: The Unknown Story'
6 mo on HNToward Rational, Authentic Food Choices | Melanie Joy | TEDxMünchen
6 mo on HNWhy We Get Fat: And What to Do About It | Gary Taubes | Talks at Google
5 mo on HNFasting For Survival Lecture by Dr Pradip Jamnadas
6 mo on HNType 2 diabetes | Sarah Hallberg | TEDxPurdueU
5 mo on HNIs olive oil safe at high heat? Does it taste bad?
5 mo on HNFeeding Bill Gates a Fake Burger (to save the world)
5 mo on HNFasting vs. Eating Less: What's the Difference? (Science of Fasting)
5 mo on HNFat Chance: Fructose 2.0
5 mo on HNThe $100 Billion Dollar Ingredient making your Food Toxic
4 mo on HNPaleo Diet & Strength Training Biochemistry | Doug McGuff M.D. | Full Length HD
5 mo on HNThe mathematics of weight loss | Ruben Meerman | TEDxQUT (edited version)
4 mo on HNDr. Satchin Panda on Time-Restricted Feeding and Its Effects on Obesity, Muscle Mass & Heart Health
4 mo on HNDr. Jason Fung - 'The Aetiology of Obesity'
4 mo on HNThe Milk-Industrial Complex: Why You Don't Need to Drink Milk
4 mo on HNIs a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong
4 mo on HNDr. Bill Harris on the Omega-3 Index: Increasing Omega-3 to Promote Longevity & Transform Health
4 mo on HNProf. Thomas Seyfried - 'Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: Implications for Novel Therapies'
4 mo on HNSalt: Are you getting Enough? (More Sodium & Health)
4 mo on HNValter Longo, Ph.D. on Fasting-Mimicking Diet & Fasting for Longevity, Cancer & Multiple Sclerosis
3 mo on HNHow to Enhance Your Gut Microbiome for Brain & Overall Health
3 mo on HN"The Dangerous Truth About Protein" - Janice Stanger, Ph.D.
3 mo on HNDr. Chris Knobbe - 'Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?'
3 mo on HNThe Obesity Code Lecture (Why do we get Fat?) Part 1
3 mo on HND is for Debacle - The Crucial Story of Vitamin D and Human Health
3 mo on HNSulforaphane and Its Effects on Cancer, Mortality, Aging, Brain and Behavior, Heart Disease & More
3 mo on HNDr. Jason Fung: Fasting as a Therapeutic Option for Weight Loss
3 mo on HNWhy is it so Easy to be Thin in Japan?
2 mo on HNIf You Eat Meat You Should Know This
2 mo on HNBest Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary Yourofsky
Also discussed on Hacker News (7)
Mentioned in HN threads about nutrition & diet science, though never formally recommended:
How It's Made - Canola Oil · Soylent: How I Stopped Eating for 30 Days · Jamie Oliver Shows School Kids How Chicken Nuggets are made · The '5kg in 50 days' Diet! · The food we were born to eat: John McDougall at TEDxFremont · Rhonda Patrick: Nutrigenomics, Epigenetics, and Stress Tolerance · 'Drink water': Ronaldo removes Coca-Cola bottles in press conference