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
5 mo on HNFasting For Survival Lecture by Dr Pradip Jamnadas
5 mo on HNFat Chance: Fructose 2.0
4 mo on HNPaleo Diet & Strength Training Biochemistry | Doug McGuff M.D. | Full Length HD
4 mo on HNIs a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong
4 mo on HNProf. Thomas Seyfried - 'Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: Implications for Novel Therapies'
3 mo on HNThe Obesity Code Lecture (Why do we get Fat?) Part 1
3 mo on HNSulforaphane and Its Effects on Cancer, Mortality, Aging, Brain and Behavior, Heart Disease & More
2 mo on HNEvidence-Based Weight Loss: Live Presentation
2 mo on HNThe Battle of the Diets: Is Anyone Winning (At Losing?)
1 mo on HNProf. Robert Lustig - 'Sugar, metabolic syndrome, and cancer'
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