Sleeper clip (diet and tobacco)

Luis Felipe Ovando0 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
154K views · comedy · evergreen · Uploaded 2011-04-23

A short clip from Woody Allen's 1973 film Sleeper in which a man who wakes up in the future is told that health foods are unhealthy and tobacco is good for you.

HN posts it as a joke in threads about shifting nutrition and health science advice.

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3 comments from Hacker News

@delbel2018 · in “Nicotinamide riboside effects on aging similar to caloric restriction”

Smoking cigarettes would do it. Nicotine + Oxygen right? Who knew the movie Sleeper had it right, keto diet and tabacco. [VIDEO]

@NeedMoreTea2019 · in “New research questions the evidence for health benefits of eating less red meat”

Sleeper. He wakes up hundreds of years in the future, and starts asking for health foods. From the early 70s. [VIDEO]

@alamortsubite2024 · in “The flip-flop on whether alcohol is good for you (2023)”

You'll probably enjoy this clip from the Woody Allen movie Sleeper, where his character is revived 200 years in the future after being cryogenically frozen in 1973. Just watch the first minute or so. [VIDEO]