This is the first I'm hearing that "soylent" is "an open-source food movement". I thought is was one guy that tried some stuff and now is starting to build a start-up around it. It also seems weird that what is labeled as the flagship “distro” of this so-called open-source movement is not actually open-source. So now I'm confused. Is this just a wording issue I'm confused about? Are we using "open-source" for everything now?
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#12I really don't understand Soylent. Do people really hate eating so much? Eating is one of the greatest joys of human existence. I understand that people have other things to do, but are you really so busy you can't sit down to enjoy a good meal?
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#13I really don't understand Soylent. Do people really hate eating so much? Eating is one of the greatest joys of human existence. I understand that people have other things to do, but are you really so busy you can't sit down to enjoy a good meal?
One thing that you will hear repeated often (including in this comment) is that you can still enjoy eating a good meal. But not many people eat a good meal for every meal. There are many many things that people enjoy doing but do not want to do 3 times a day, every day. So if a glass of Soylent (or one of the other commercial products available today) in the morning helps me resist the office doughnuts, that is a positive. That is not to say that I can't end my day with a nice meal out with my family.
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#14As omnivores, what's best for our health is eating a highly varied and changing diet. This is the exact opposite. Considering the cure for cancer is basically fresh vegetables, fruits, and fungi, it's not too hard to figure out what's going to happen in the long run.
> Considering the cure for cancer is basically fresh vegetables, fruits, and fungi... I've met vegetarians with cancer. I'm pretty certain it's not that simple.
I can't speak to the parents 'cure for cancer' claim, but it's worth noting that 'vegetarian' really only means a diet without meat.
It's quite possible to be a vegetarian without consuming any more fresh fruits and vegetables than that found in a conventional diet.
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#15I see the guy dismissing the dangers of Soy hormones...
Well, beside making chickens get ready to be killed much faster (a farmer I talked claimed that with normal rations his chicken took 4 months to be able to be killed, with soy rations, you could sell them to be killed after 40 days), I DO tested avoiding Soy like the plague, and see if it had any effect, and it had (including I did some testosterone blood testing to check).
Also, I think eating "industrial" food is a very fast way to miss important nutrients we don't know much yet about, but are present in our daily normal food.
But I get why someone would wish to do that, sometimes I feel tempted too, specially because cooking all my food (with SO help even) on Sunday takes a long time (4, 5 hours... mostly result of having shitty kitchen), and eating food while on my PC at night is not much easy... And I hate washing dishes.
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#16I really don't understand Soylent. Do people really hate eating so much? Eating is one of the greatest joys of human existence. I understand that people have other things to do, but are you really so busy you can't sit down to enjoy a good meal?
Meal replacement shakes can be useful when you're trying to control your calories while still getting what you need. Particularly good when per iodising your training, so you might still need measured amounts of protein and carbs but you're trying to lose fat after building muscle. Very easy to measure out 1,500 calories worth of powder a day vs guessing calorific content of food.
Having said that, I don't get why the current geek love for Soylent when there's really no shortage of meal replacement shakes out there that seem to do the same job but cheaper. I also love actually eating food, so would only use a shake for a short term goal.
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#17I really don't understand Soylent. Do people really hate eating so much? Eating is one of the greatest joys of human existence. I understand that people have other things to do, but are you really so busy you can't sit down to enjoy a good meal?
I agree with you.
But before you get too far down this rabbit hole, consider that people's eating habits occupy the same emotional space as religion and politics.
In other words, it is possible but unlikely that you'll be able to argue someone out of their position on any of the three topics.
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#18I really don't understand Soylent. Do people really hate eating so much? Eating is one of the greatest joys of human existence. I understand that people have other things to do, but are you really so busy you can't sit down to enjoy a good meal?
It seems as though the time it takes to engineer Soylent could be used to cook and freeze a bunch of food.
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#19This mix is completely devoid of BCAAs. Soy protein has no branch chain amino acids - meaning it completely lacks THE fundamental building blocks used in building all bodily tissue.
Look more into different kinds of protein. You might also want to do this for your carbs. Suggesting that brown sugar is a good way to "top up" our carb load is terrible advice - all cane sugars are simple sugars, meaning they jack up your glycemic index and then crash you after. Complex carbs have a completely different rate and method of metabolism.
Please don't offer this as an option to people until you've done some substantial (read minimal) research. At least Rhinehart’s project is presented as an experiment and not a hobby-kit. Theres an ethical responsibility involved in projects like this that the OP is blatently neglecting.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
A restaurant is overkill, how about just a vending machine? You could put quite a markup on them (like $5 a bottle) and people would buy them for the time savings.
Walgreens sells Ensure. ( http://www.walgreens.com/search/results.jsp?Ntt=ensure&x=-18... ) A six pack costs $8.50 ( http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/ensure-nutrition-shakes-liq... ). Each bottle is one serving, and contains 250 kCalories. ( http://ensure.com/products/ensure ) Here's a list of the Walgreens locations in SF. ( http://www.walgreens.com/storelocator/result.jsp?oTrk=1&_req... )
At a caloric equality that would be about $3-$4 per meal of this (3 meals = ~2000kCal, which would be 8 cans of ensure)