All of the calorie counts you see on food today are wrong. Obesity researcher Giles Yeo shows why calories are not created equal.
Giles’ newest book “Why Calories Don’t Count” is available now:
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Giles Yeo explores what your environment has to do with your bodyweight, the science behind why popular diets succeed, at least in the short term, and why they ultimately fail.
Dr Giles Yeo is a geneticist with over 20 years’ experience dedicated to researching the genetics of obesity. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge and assisted the ground-breaking research that uncovered key pathways in how the brain controls food intake.
His current research focuses on understanding how these pathways differ from person to person, and the influence of genetics in our relationship with food and eating habits.
He is based at MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, where he is Principal Research Associate, and is a fellow and graduate tutor at Wolfson College. Giles also moonlights as a science presenter for the BBC. He lives in Cambridge with his family.
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Good job keeping the energy high through-out the talk, kept me engaged
Incredible science communicator, could listen to Giles talk about anything! Great talk!
As someone who actually is food-insecure, I really appreciate you helping bridge that economic divide by putting some of your work on YouTube. This is stuff I likely never would have learned otherwise.
This guy is great in explaining things, I thoroughly enjoyed this lecture
I grew up in the United States as a person who was food-insecure. I still have habits from that childhood and the fear of not having food. It has been so hard to change my thinking, and I have health issues that come from about 27 years of living without much security in food and choosing unhealthy food because it was what I could afford, and what was readily available. Thank you for this presentation.
“Sometimes life demands a chocolate bar; sometimes life demands a banana.”
Words to live by, man.
I can hear Coach Greg screaming in the backgrounds.
I studied physics and engineering and your title scared me but I listened anyway (because I saw the Cambridge U label). You do understand the physics of calorie deficit! I kept on listening and I am glad I did. You clarified the diet world immensely and you entertained at the same time. Thank you for this video.
“All of that is origamied into us.” Made my day.
“… And there’s only so much time in a day that you have to chew!”
Ok, I lost it here. That was brilliant!
Absolutely the best 45 minutes of information about food, calories, diets and micronutrients I have ever heard! Brilliantly laid out, totally understandable and quite entertaining. Thank you so much and I’m definitely buying your book.
“She’s more of a woman because she’s less of a woman”. Apart from being a brilliant scientist, he’s quite the comedian.
As a person with Celiac disease I have to say that I never saw rice and water being labeled as gluten free but it makes sense for shampoos, toothpaste, corn flour and other food that doesn’t naturally contain gluten to be labeled as gluten free. This is because cross contamination with gluten between different foods can happen anywhere in the chain from the farm where the crops are grown to the factory that makes food. Gluten can also be found in cosmetic products because it is cheap and manufacturers like to put it wherever they can
“How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong”, “Why Calories don’t count” … OK, I figured, this is gonna be some sort of garbage, click-baity, scientology-like, Internet-worthy BS. But I couldn’t resist checking out what turned out to be the most interesting and informative lecture on nutrition that I’ve ever heard. Well done sir.