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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.

Nutrition & diet science Videos Recommended on Hacker News (60)

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Eating less Meat won't save the Planet. Here's Why

Is olive oil safe at high heat? Does it taste bad?

Feeding Bill Gates a Fake Burger (to save the world)

Fasting vs. Eating Less: What's the Difference? (Science of Fasting)

The $100 Billion Dollar Ingredient making your Food Toxic

The Milk-Industrial Complex: Why You Don't Need to Drink Milk

Salt: Are you getting Enough? (More Sodium & Health)

D is for Debacle - The Crucial Story of Vitamin D and Human Health

Why is it so Easy to be Thin in Japan?

If You Eat Meat You Should Know This

Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?

Is Meat Really that Bad?

Vitamin D and Immunity, Lots of Evidence

Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even @johnnyharris)

Why Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the World 🍔

Your Coffee Addiction Is Probably Good for You

Is Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious?

Are Seed Oils Inflammatory?! (The *Evidence* No One Shows)

Vitamin D and immunity

The Truth Behind Calorie Labels

We Need to Rethink Exercise (Updated Version)

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Are Seed Oils Inflammatory?! (The Evidence No One Shows)