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Those other digestive functions are used/required by Soylent.
How? Soylent is all liquid. Pretty much everything I eat is semi solid.
> Soylent is all liquid.
Wrong, it's a power mixed in liquid.
How I Ate No Food for 30 Days
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You said that, and its silly. Nobody's 'feeding people glop', Soylent is a choice. Strident complaints are out of place. Go ahead and learn to prepare 'real' food, that's your choice.
"Soylent is a choice" So is airlines offering tickets that aren't bound by the lowest denominator of price. Those airlines went out of business. If there's a good chance that Soylent becomes popular and a good percentage of the population uses it on a day to day basis, it's not a "choice" in the same way as avoiding all technology and being Amish is a "choice". Setting good practices like not having mold in your food…
Pure straw-man hyperbole. Currently its a cool idea being tried; some folks find it helpful.
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> Show me some evidence or even some indication that Soylent will result in an irreversible and sudden decline in health. > If it fails to live up to the hype, it's reversible. Once again, demanding evidence that something is unsafe instead of providing evidence that it is not, then in the same breath taking that it is not for granted. Is that all you are wired to do? It's like what I'm saying is going in one ear and…
That's the thing, absent any negative information a dietary change shouldn't need rigourous proof. Unless there's any indication that Soylent will do irreparable damage from day 1, I see no good reason for an individual not to try it and monitor their progress. If it doesn't work for them, then they can stop using it. How hard is that? How is that breaking anyone? I don't treat human life lightly. You're just treatin…
the human body can adapt to bad nutrition for a long time. Everything will be fine until its not.
What if Soylent increases the risk of some form of cancer or some long term damage to the liver of other organs ? You wont know until its too late.
You want people to prove that Soylent is bad, but instead the Soylent team needs to proof that Soylent is good! And a couple of dozen reviews from people using it for a month does not prove anything.
Re: How I Ate No Food for 30 Days
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> You can get better products from reputable companies. What products specifically?
Ensure / fortisip / Optifast (as seen in the video in the submutted link, where the doctor tells him that liquid total food replacements have been available for decades) / etc etc etc. Here's Abbott Nutrition http://abbottnutrition.com/ Here's Nutricia https://www.nutricia.co.uk/fortisip// It's frustrating that this question is asked, and answered, every single time Soylent is mentioned, and people then dishonestly s…
Thanks, I'm going to try some Ensure.
I've also been drinking Carnation Breakfast Essentials occasionally but I'm not sure how much different it is from drinking a glass of chocolate milk and a multivitamin.
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How many meals in week do you eat alone? How many with other people? I think most people will simply use this product to replace the meals they'd eat alone, and still go out for food with friends. As a bachelor who eats out almost every meal, including the lunches and dinners when I eat alone. This sounds perfect for saving money and thus leaving more money to spend when I go out with friends.
I eat 4 meals alone per week, mostly because I eat lunch at my desk and am not super tight with my new co-workers (mostly because except for fridays I don't eat with them, see how that works?) Breakfast is with my partner, and dinner is with my partner or friends and family. Why are you eating alone... let alone eating alone as a bachelor? Make food for friends, go out with friends, not eating alone will change your…
(Another recent graduate speaking)
Not everyone is having same social skills.
You tell me that, then I shall take my ass out and make friends in a foreign country. I agree with you, as am working on it and myself, but at the moment - zero friends.
As a result I very often eat alone too. On the other hand, I still am highly against replacing my eating rituals with some shaky shakes.
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Humans have only eaten grains for the last 10,000 years or so. For the millions of years before that, we evolved on a diet that didn't include grain. Of courses those assertions don't prove anything but they do make me question the wisdom of basing the human diet on grain.
Yes, and I dare say this whole civilization thing is working out pretty well as a result of our switch to grains.
I think your assertion that havesting grain led to civilization is the most likely hypothesis but, I'm not convinced we started harvesting grain for food. We've discovered cups with trace amounts of beer that pedate plates with trace amounts of bread by 3,000 years. Again, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence but the theory that we brewed beer before we baked bread is well supported. But, just because we may have invented civilization around beer does not make it the cornerstone of a healthy diet.