'Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well'

How many times a day do you ask the question, “What should I eat?” Are you overwhelmed by the thousands of factory-made foods supermarkets sell? Or the abundance of diets (paleo, Mediterranean, low-fat, low-carb, low-calorie, intermittent fasting, vegan, vegetarian, carnivore) claimed to optimize your health and manage your weight? 

In this talk and his new book, Fed Up, best-selling author and Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman tackles this confusion. Drawing on evolutionary biology, anthropology, physiology, and medical science, he explores how our ancestors never evolved to choose their food to lose weight or live to 100. Instead, we evolved to eat almost anything in order to survive. 

By telling the fascinating story of diets from seven million years ago to the present and using myth-busting science to evaluate today’s most popular diets, Lieberman explains what everyone needs to know to make wiser, kinder choices about what to eat. This talk will help you understand why no diet is flawless, though some are better than others.

Join nutritionist and Commonwealth Club Nutrition, Food & Wellness Forum Chair Patty James for a lively conversation with Lieberman about separating evolutionary fact from dietary fiction - and how understanding where we came from might help us make better choices about what we eat today.

Speaker: Daniel Lieberman, Harvard university