{"id":640862,"date":"2026-08-16T23:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/640862\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:08:20","slug":"fad-diets-a-harvard-professor-puts-them-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/640862\/","title":{"rendered":"Fad diets &#8211; a Harvard professor puts them to the test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p paraeid=\"{79287fd1-4278-4943-a13f-53ca7a877d4f}{195}\" paraid=\"69530769\">In the interest of science,\u00a0Daniel Lieberman has put himself through the mill.\u00a0The Harvard professor of human evolutionary biology\u00a0has tried and documented what it was like to practice the raw food and paleo diets, drinking shakes instead of eating, the low-carb high protein\u00a0Atkins diet, intermittent fasting, and the Mediterranean\u00a0diet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{79287fd1-4278-4943-a13f-53ca7a877d4f}{195}\" paraid=\"69530769\">He joins Jim to talk about his book\u00a0Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet and Eating Well,\u00a0and how he felt when he was\u00a0trialling\u00a0the different food regimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4N8NWUM_copyright_image_202416.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Assortment of  fresh fruits and vegetables\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: 123RF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the interest of science,\u00a0Daniel Lieberman has put himself through the mill.\u00a0The Harvard professor of human evolutionary biology\u00a0has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[277],"tags":[1735,1734,18,135,19,17,5,508,1113,1733,1731,1732],"class_list":["post-640862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-nutrition","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117107708665301669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}