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How I Ate No Food for 30 Days

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Re: How I Ate No Food for 30 Days

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potatolicious wrote: post #39
sethbannon wrote: post #23

As someone who drinks Soylent regularly, the most pertinent part of this article was the blood tests after the author went on a 30 day Soylent-only diet. "Doctors tested Merchant’s blood at the end of it, and the only nutrient he was deficient in was Vitamin D -- i.e. sunlight", which he says made sense because having Soylent handy meant he "wouldn’t have to leave the office". That's certainly good news. If the mold…

> "And as for the rat (singular -- not "rats" plural as the title says)" As someone who has (unfortunately) had to deal with rats before, there is no such thing as a singular rat. A singular rat you see represents many you do not in the vicinity. By the time you can see a single rat on a simple walk-through of the facility, you have an infestation on your hands.

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Re: How I Ate No Food for 30 Days

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Post by dragontamer »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #38

I suppose you could spin it "Look how healthy our rats are and there is nothing in this warehouse but Soylent! Testing on rats, check!" But this made me a bit sad. I think Soylent is great, it is disruptive, it is more palatable than nutraloaf it could be a great alternative for folks who just need food to live, and it could provide a fascinating 'control' group for various Microbiome projects. But clearly these folk…

What you do, is then you hire a 10-year veteran of the food preparation business.

What you DON'T do, is pickup a few textbooks on body chemistry and assume you can figure it all out by yourself.

Re: How I Ate No Food for 30 Days

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Post by arkitaip »

sethbannon wrote: post #23

As someone who drinks Soylent regularly, the most pertinent part of this article was the blood tests after the author went on a 30 day Soylent-only diet. "Doctors tested Merchant’s blood at the end of it, and the only nutrient he was deficient in was Vitamin D -- i.e. sunlight", which he says made sense because having Soylent handy meant he "wouldn’t have to leave the office". That's certainly good news. If the mold…

I wouldn't consider the 30 day test to be remotely significant. Maybe when we're talking about years Soylent can be considered safe...

Re: How I Ate No Food for 30 Days

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Post by stonemetal »

jlgreco wrote: post #10
seiji wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't supplements/non-medical powders/various other juju immune from FDA issues?

FDA regulates both finished dietary supplement products and dietary ingredients. FDA regulates dietary supplements under a different set of regulations than those covering "conventional" foods and drug products. Under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA): - The manufacturer of a dietary supplement or dietary ingredient is responsible for ensuring that the product is safe before it is market…

From the QA link: They can also be in other forms, such as a bar, but if they are, information on their label must not represent the product as a conventional food or a sole item of a meal or diet.

So, Soylent is probably considered a food since it is a sole item of a meal.

Re: How I Ate No Food for 30 Days

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Post by mattgreenrocks »

kmfrk wrote: post #28
ilamont wrote: post #27

It's possible to recover from quality scares. Clover Food Lab, which got its start as one of the MIT food trucks, had to deal with a salmonella outbreak over the summer. These news reports and blog posts by the founder document what happened: Salmonella outbreak sickens 12 in state, triggers closure of Clover restaurants: http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2013/07... Clover Food Lab delays reopening…

Don't you think it says something about Silicon Valley that your first thought is to characterize this as a PR issue ? It's Airbnb "ransackgate" all over again ...

"If we focused too much on quality, we'd run out of VC money!"

Re: How I Ate No Food for 30 Days

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Post by DanBC »

I'm really tempted to set up a kickstarter for a documentary of me living for 6 months on the various existing liquid feeds.

It'll be tricky getting a doctor to fit a feeding tube up my nose, but I'm sure someone would do it. (Bit scary using non-medical people because of the risk of the tube going into a lung.)

Re: How I Ate No Food for 30 Days

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Post by fredsters_s »

bowlofpetunias wrote: post #32

EDIT: Unbelievable. Both the title and the link to the article I commented on have been swapped from the PandoDaily article ( http://pandodaily.com/2013/11/12/vice-investigates-soylent-f... ) to the Vice article which PandoDaily referred to, but that tries to give it a positive spin. This goes well beyond whatever policy pg was trying to defend recently. This is deeply manipulative. --- It looks a scam, it sounds lik…

As a long-time beta user I can tell you that it works as described.

Re: How I Ate No Food for 30 Days

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Post by herge »

arkitaip wrote: post #44
sethbannon wrote: post #23

As someone who drinks Soylent regularly, the most pertinent part of this article was the blood tests after the author went on a 30 day Soylent-only diet. "Doctors tested Merchant’s blood at the end of it, and the only nutrient he was deficient in was Vitamin D -- i.e. sunlight", which he says made sense because having Soylent handy meant he "wouldn’t have to leave the office". That's certainly good news. If the mold…

I wouldn't consider the 30 day test to be remotely significant. Maybe when we're talking about years Soylent can be considered safe...

You must be the dude still holding out on cell phones because of the microwaves?
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