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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2 mo on HNHow Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health | Dr. Robert Lustig
2 mo on HNWhat is the best diet for humans? | Eran Segal | TEDxRuppin
2 mo on HNIs Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?
2 mo on HNEvidence-Based Weight Loss: Live Presentation
2 mo on HNIs Meat Really that Bad?
2 mo on HNVitamin D and Immunity, Lots of Evidence
2 mo on HNDebunking Dr. Robert Lustig's Claims from The Huberman Lab Podcast | Educational Video | Biolayne
2 mo on HNEveryone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even @johnnyharris)
2 mo on HNWhy Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the World 🍔
2 mo on HNYour Coffee Addiction Is Probably Good for You
2 mo on HNIs Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious?
2 mo on HNThe Secret Reason We Eat Meat - Dr. Melanie Joy
2 mo on HNThe Battle of the Diets: Is Anyone Winning (At Losing?)
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 HNAre Seed Oils Inflammatory?! (The *Evidence* No One Shows)
1 mo on HNCan we eat to starve cancer? - William Li
1 mo on HNVitamin D and immunity
1 mo on HNDr. Oz and Nutritional Supplements: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
1 mo on HNFood Safety: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
1 mo on HNThe Truth Behind Calorie Labels
1 mo on HNProf. Robert Lustig - 'Sugar, metabolic syndrome, and cancer'
1 mo on HNWe Need to Rethink Exercise (Updated Version)
1 mo on HNDiet & Nutrition for Mental Health | Dr. Chris Palmer
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