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What is the best diet for humans? | Eran Segal | TEDxRuppin

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Nutrition & diet scienceBiology & biotechnologyData science & statistics

What it is

Prof. Eran Segal's TEDx talk on research showing that people's blood sugar responses to identical foods vary widely. It describes an algorithm that predicts individual responses and why one best diet for everyone does not exist.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as an accessible case that diets work differently for different people, partly due to gut bacteria.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “It was not just about the food, it was also about the person eating it”

    Talk on how food effects differ per individual.

    lhuser123, 2020-01 · Recommendation · in “Caffeine attenuates high-fat-high-sucrose lipogenesis and body fat accumulation”

  2. “This is an interesting TEDx talk from Eran Segal”

    Interesting talk on best diet and the gut.

    gardnr, 2023-11 · Recommendation · in “In the Gut's 'Second Brain,' Key Agents of Health Emerge”

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

Topics: glycemic response, gut microbiome, diet, blood sugar, nutrition science

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