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Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks

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Re: Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks

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Did you even try google? Enshure: http://ensure.com/products/ensure-complete-shakes click buy online from the product page. Fortisip: http://www.fortisipdrink.co.uk/ . Again, click the buy online link from there homepage. (Though I think this is a UK brand.) PS: You can find a wide product range at http://abbottstore.com/

Did you try reading the thread you are attempting to participate in? The whole problem is vaguely claiming that there's already products that cover the use case of soylent, but not giving a specific. None of the products you linked to provide 100% of known essential nutrients. None of them are intended to be used as a replacement for food, and none of them can be used as such with long term safety. It is absurd to se…

> None of the products you linked to provide 100% of known essential nutrients. None of them are intended to be used as a replacement for food

You keep making this claim and it is just not true.

Re: Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks

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>None of them provide 100% of known essential nutrients. You will develop a vitamin deficiency consuming any of those exclusively. That is in no way accomplishing what soylent claims to do. Personally? I dismiss those claims as marketing fluff. I am not competent to evaluate those claims; I'm not saying that the guy is lying or anything, soylent may in fact be perfect. I don't know. but the claims sound so out there…

I am not talking about claims, I am talking about the nutrition info required to be provided by law. We know that there are a bunch of chemical compounds we call "vitamins" which are required to maintain our health. Soylent provides 100% of all of them. Meal replacement drinks do not.

http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/products/ensure-plus-retai...

And really, if you think that the RDA is good enough, just take your vitamin pills.

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