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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9 mo on HNDr. Michael Greger | How Not To Die | Talks at Google
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 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
6 mo on HNType 2 diabetes | Sarah Hallberg | TEDxPurdueU
5 mo on HNThe mathematics of weight loss | Ruben Meerman | TEDxQUT (edited version)
4 mo on HNDr. Jason Fung - 'The Aetiology of Obesity'
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 HNDr. Jason Fung: Fasting as a Therapeutic Option for Weight Loss
2 mo on HNBest Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary Yourofsky
2 mo on HNWhat is the best diet for humans? | Eran Segal | TEDxRuppin
2 mo on HNThe Secret Reason We Eat Meat - Dr. Melanie Joy
2 mo on HNDr. Matthew Phillips - 'Metabolic Strategies as Therapies in Cancer and Neurodegeneration'
1 mo on HNFoodGate: The Break-in, the Cover-up, & the Aftermath
1 mo on HNCan we eat to starve cancer? - William Li
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