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Is a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong

Stanford Health Care · lecture · Watch on YouTube

Nutrition & diet science

What it is

Stanford Health Care hosts Christopher Gardner and Robert Lustig on whether all calories are equal, with a focus on processed food and sugar. The talk questions the idea that calories in versus calories out fully explains weight and health.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to Lustig's talk when arguing that processed food changes metabolism and that a simple calories in/out model is poor.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Watch this video below to understand more”

    Why calories in versus calories out is a poor model

    dp-hackernews, 2024-10 · Strong recommendation · in “Exercise Paradox”

  2. “If you want to learn more here are some sources”

    Lustig on processed food and calories

    buzzcut, 2016-04 · Recommendation · in “Diabetes: can you really eat to beat it?”

  3. “I would like to give you a succinct answer, but I am not as well spoken as Robert Lustig, MD”

    Lustig explains calories versus processed food

    orangepurple, 2023-03 · Recommendation · in “The Efficient Frontier of Fat Loss”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: robert lustig, calories, sugar, processed food, obesity

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