HAPPENING TONIGHT
Meet Harvard Evoluntionary Biologist Professor Daniel Lieberman
Professor Lieberman explores the costs and benefits of cheap, energy-rich, tempting, and often unhealthy ultra-processed foods;
the tangled roots of weight gain; and more!
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Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well
TONIGHT - - Friday, October 23, 2026 at 6:30 PM
The lecture begins at 6:30 pm, followed by a book signing. Tickets and additional information are available here.
Houston Museum of Natural Science
5555 Hermann Park Dr.
Houston, TX 77030
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.
Join Daniel Lieberman after the lecture for a book signing. Books will be available for purchase at the box office following the lecture.