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

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.

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Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Stanford Health Care
Topic
nutrition and processed food
Format
lecture
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2016–2024

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From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • Calories are a measure of energy, NOT nutritional value. Forget calories, think utility. Some types of calories are good for you, others may as well be poison - therefore, the dose is the poison. By consuming calories in accordance with their utility you will do …

    dp-hackernews on Hacker News · 2024-10
    In Exercise Paradox

  • Unfortunately I can only summarize. On the starvation study it's merely one example that highlights how calorie restriction affects people. Yes, it's an extreme version, but it is different only in degree from any other calorie restriction, and when people try to reduce by X …

    buzzcut on Hacker News · 2016-04
    In Diabetes: can you really eat to beat it?

  • Food for thought... Sugar: The Bitter Truth [LINK] Is a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong [VIDEO] Does calorie counting work? (Almost never) [LINK] What The Fat (WTF) #133 Dr. Philip Ovadia| Keto "Causes" Heart Scarring [LINK] The art of misdirection | Apollo …

    dp-hackernews on Hacker News · 2021-10
    In Obesity Pathogenesis: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement

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