So they're not shipping to the US or am I reading it wrong?
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"It's easy to forget"? I think most people can't help but think of that every time they look at it.
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#33Is it people?
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#34This is perhaps the worst example of people who learn their science and medicine from reading Reddit that I have yet seen in the Hacker News community. It illustrates the fallibility of human nature behind every new business scheme, and shows that a business doesn't have to be a big, multinational publicly traded corporation to engage in business with little regard for customer safety or public benefit. AFTER EDIT: I…
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that you don't actually know where this guy learned his science and medicine. Let people experiment on themselves. IMO there are enough humans that if a few get slightly ill from this, it is worth it for the chance that it does work (which seems significant given the experimentation he did on himself, the presence of similar, competing products, etc.).
I agree with the first part of your comment. But let's not play up his self-experimentation as anything more than whimsical. His result are not significant in any way. Ffs he has been on it for how long? Months? Maybe a year? And n=1 as well.
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#35This is perhaps the worst example of people who learn their science and medicine from reading Reddit that I have yet seen in the Hacker News community. It illustrates the fallibility of human nature behind every new business scheme, and shows that a business doesn't have to be a big, multinational publicly traded corporation to engage in business with little regard for customer safety or public benefit. AFTER EDIT: I…
I'm really interested in learning more. I like the concept but am also wary of the science behind it. Is there a legitimate/credible scientific review of it out there?
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#36This is perhaps the worst example of people who learn their science and medicine from reading Reddit that I have yet seen in the Hacker News community. It illustrates the fallibility of human nature behind every new business scheme, and shows that a business doesn't have to be a big, multinational publicly traded corporation to engage in business with little regard for customer safety or public benefit. AFTER EDIT: I…
Absolutely. It's one thing to experiment with your own body, it something else entirely to sell a product with no scientific backing as a cure-all for all variety of ailments.
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#37I'd be interested in seeing a comparison of Soylent against Ensure Complete. They seem to be very similar in intent: http://ensure.com/products/ensure-complete-shakes and based on the nutrition information for Ensure Complete from that page and the rough description of Soylent ( http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424 ) I do not see a major difference. It would appear that to get the same nutrients as Soylent I would need to…
The Soylent guy is an engineer who approached it like an engineering problem. It is supposed to contain everything your body needs on a regular basis. Ensure is a food replacement that has a long history of helping people with medical concerns. My great-grandmother lived mostly on this stuff while going through chemo. So far as I know, Ensure has never been advertised as the magic bullet to replace every food ever.
That's because if Ensure tried to the parent company would get sued/fined into oblivion the first time some one wasn't close enough to their assumptions on nutrient needs/uptake.
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#38I'd be interested in seeing a comparison of Soylent against Ensure Complete. They seem to be very similar in intent: http://ensure.com/products/ensure-complete-shakes and based on the nutrition information for Ensure Complete from that page and the rough description of Soylent ( http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424 ) I do not see a major difference. It would appear that to get the same nutrients as Soylent I would need to…
Not saying it makes Soylent better or not, but Ensure isn't great. In one study, where Ensure was used instead of the standard glucose solution for an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test, some subjects ended up with 2 hour blood glucose levels over 180 mg/dL. It's marketed as having a low Glycemic Index, but the GI of chocolate cake and ice cream are actually even lower...
AFAICT, though, the only "better" about Soylent is that it's, like, disruptive.
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#39I'm not liking how they are going about this at all. They should ensure it is safe first before trying to sell everywhere. I don't like the perception of their intents.
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#40Not impressed. I manage to eat a healthy (and tasty) diet cheaper than that, while spending minimal amount of my time in the kitchen. Vegetables steamed in the microwave take less than 5 minutes to prepare. (More on my eating habits: http://blog.tasuki.org/how-i-didnt-stop-eating-food/ ) I think eating only Soylent exposes you to a significant risk of missing something vital that we usually get incidentally from regu…
I agree. I buy local from the farmer's market and I buy raw and fresh, I have lost more weight just eating like a caveman than any fad diet has done for any of my co-workers or friends.
The following is ideal for me:
1. raw/fresh food 2. general fitness every day 3. intermittent fasting once or twice a week
Food has a lasting effect on the body, some of which science is yet to understand, I'll stick with what I can hunt and pick from the wild.