Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2026-08-15
Books mentioned on Harvard Professor: “I Tried Every Diet. This Is By Far The Worst.” - Daniel Lieberman - #1137
Daniel Lieberman is a Harvard professor of human evolutionary biology, paleoanthropologist, and author. What is the best diet for peak human health?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Salt Sugar Fat
Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss is an investigative exposé that reveals how major food corporations deliberately engineer processed foods with precise combinations of ingredients to maximize human cravings and drive consumption.
Recommended“So there's a a book by by a guy named Michael Moss called Salt, Sugar, Fat, which is really worth reading, where he's an investigative journalist. Um, and he studied and, you know, collected information on how the big food companies, you know, through serious testing.”
