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So is baby formula not food?
Baby formula has rigorous research behind it.
Because that is one of the products that if screwed up will end your company or you if you do it in China.
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#473This is kind of what I wanted to accomplish by building Eat This Much[1], ideally making eating and staying healthy at the same time less of a chore. I'm really on board with the idea, but what got me interested was the notion that it would be easy to adjust the formula to my needs, e.g. choose a different ratio of various powders if I want to gain weight, lose weight, or compensate for some genetic difference. [1] h…
Eat This Much subscriber here. Thanks for the awesome product/service.
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Replace 'soylent' with 'junk food' in their marketing copy. "Junk food is perfectly balanced and optimized for your body and lifestyle, meaning it automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus and cognition." Ever see anyone say that about junk food?
Yes actually. You can go to the store and buy high-fiber cookies with images of people doing Yoga on them. You can go to a McDonalds and read how their chicken burgers are low-fat and fit in a healthy diet and you can buy Red Bull whose commercials constantly claim it improves focus and cognition. Not to mention all the 'regular' non-fast preprocessed food people all over the world believe to be fitting for a regular…
None of those examples are anywhere near the sort of specific claims being made on the Soylent site. It's being marketed as a panacea.
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#475I read this initially assuming it to be a clever spoof on the whole startup / crowdsourcing scene, because of the name: pick something that is obviously a joke product ("Soylent Green is people!") and run with it - start piling on impressive claims, include startup-y backgrounds for the founders, and be really vague about what the product actually is. Given my initial interpretation, I thought the "Is soylent vegan a…
Yeah, I'm dumbfounded in more ways than one. Here we have a group of young guys supposedly selling a mysterious powder with no ingredients under the name Soylent of all things. Then I come to the comments and virtually no one has questioned this product as even being real and is instead arguing over whether it's a viable business / safe.
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Not sure whats wrong with blending some protein powder (ON is tasty), a full avocado, spinach if your feeling frisky, whole-milk if your feeling more frisky (higher fats / a bit more protein) for a near-meal replacement (near, nothing compares to whole foods). ~400 cals or so. Or taking it further with blending/vitamixing (so you keep the fiber) veggies. I thought this was the most hilarious article I've read. And it…
What exactly does whole food offer that a meal replacement doesn't? Are we talking nutrients? Because those can be replaced. Are we talking about the form? Because form shouldn't matter much to a digestive track that is built to dissolve and pulverize food. So what makes "whole foods" so much better?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5369778
Better discussion then I can espouse. Small summary, we don't necessarily know why whole foods > substitutes, but they are, ergo risk of non-intake of whole foods doesn't make sense for some anecdotes of a few startup folks.
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Baby formula has rigorous research behind it.
And Soylent or whatever it evolves into (or alternatives it inspires) will have research and evidence behind it once it goes big. You gotta start somewhere.
Will it?
Plenty of pseudoscientific snake oil products get sold for decades without research and evidence behind it. Colon cleanses, homeopathy, etc.
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Maybe Soylent is okay. Maybe. But there are well established, scientific methods to evaluate these claims. Why don't you summarize them here, and ask if the people behind Soylent have utilized them?
It's quite clear the Soylent folks haven't. From their FAQ:
"Is it safe? We have been testing Soylent on ourselves for several months and the data shows it to have a positive nutritional benefit."
The well established, scientific method is a double-blind clinical trial, in which neither patient nor investigator know whether the patient is receiving the substance being tested or the control substance.
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> The founder has been doing this for 4 months and he is healthier than when he started. The founder claims he is healthier than when he started. That's confirmation bias. We have no way of telling because this "experiment" is not at all scientific. When he started and people pointed out just how hopeless the experiment was we were told to shut up and let him get on with it because it was only him being affected and…
He has posted blood test results corroborating his claim of improved health. His blog is down right now unfortunately.
CBCs and chem panels are useful for diagnosing disorders, but they're hardly something you can use to determine "oh you're healthier than your previous also-healthy state".