TEDxHarvardLaw - Stephan Guyenet - The American Diet

The United States has experienced a major health transition in the last 150 years, which has included an increase in the prevalence of obesity, diabetes and coronary heart disease. As these conditions are heavily influenced by food choices, it is important to understand how the American diet has changed over this time period. This talk will describe qualitative and quantitative changes in American food habits that may be relevant to modern disease patterns.

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[LocoCioco]

Great presentation, thank you very much.

May I buy you a new necktie? :)

[Dan Han]

Go STEPHAN, you're onto something huge with food reward. not everyone will understand what you're getting at right away but eventually the RIGHT ideas will catch on with the right, informed people.

[upsiderown]

Man, that was how not to deliver a TED talk. I'm all about the information that Stephan was presenting, but that was the driest delivery I've seen in a TED.

[physiologics101]

Flawed graphs. 1 can coke contains 39g sugar, thus 1820 intake figures to be 7.8g per day based on 1 can/5days. Today's intake (@1can/7hrs) = 133g per day. This is 17x more per day. NO WAY did carb intake drop from 57% to 49% from 1909 to 1999. Moreover, this doesn't take in account the increased carb density from processed flour products. Guyenet provides lessons in applied nonsense in his blog articles (which brought me here.) He and Taubes do not understand the 2nd law of thermodynamics. 

[Goyim9]

Guyenet has just as much of an agenda as anyone and abuses the literature on heart disease. Please read Healthy Longevity's writings "Diet-Heart: Saturated Fat and Blood Cholesterol" and "Diet-Heart: A Problematic Revisit."

[TopNotchScience]

Dr. Stephan Guyenet is a genuine scientist who admits to uncertainty and unknowns. He the respect of both myself and my friend , Urgelt.

Plus ,chics dig his look Ethan Hawke :) LOL ! The best of both worlds.

[Jimmy Brg]

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[YoureInSilico]

Just boring statistics and stating of the obvious while being boring. Why didn't he give us any ideas on how to prevent those statistics from worsening...?

[spgtenor]

I'm not sure how they can accurately predict that the average caloric increase is 425 calories a day, but I personally think that is underestimated - big time. I've lived through that time, and I would say most people eating out (which is most people) consume 400 extra calories per meal- portion sizes have increased year by year. Snacking in the cubicle, no exercise - daily increases must be over 1000 calories, easy.

[MrBabo91]

why ?