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Sat Nov 14 2026 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC-06:00

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

  • 1400 S. Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive , Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60605 · Chicago
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Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well
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How many times a day do you ask the question, “What should I eat?” Are you confused and 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.
This event will be presented in-person at the Field Museum and live-streamed to pre-registered guests. Register online ➡️ fieldmuseum.io/FedUpBookTalk26
Only pre-registered guests receive free basic admission to the Field Museum.
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1400 S. Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive , Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60605

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