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Soylent is a bad idea. Your body needs unidentified parts of plants that make you live a decade or more longer if you eat them every day, called phytonutrients.

by rjurney 10y ago

Soylent is a bad idea. Your body needs unidentified parts of plants that make you live a decade or more longer if you eat them every day, called phytonutrients. You're just killing yourself by eating shit, may as well eat fast food it has as many nutrients. Fuck soylent, eat a mcburger. Tastes better, same effect.

logicallee 10y ago
Could you kindly expand on your a comment a bit to be more substantive, especially near the end (write more clearly the point you are making) and then I would like to respond to the points you raised. Realize you feel strongly about it. :)
- LordHumungous 10y ago
  Is there a no swearing rule on HN?
- 1457389 10y ago
  You need to take the stick out of your ass. Give me a break I thought this was "hacker" news. You can't respond to comments unless they adhere to some kind of courtesy code?
- UnoriginalGuy 10y ago
  I'm not them; HN's comment policies on civil discourse are largely about what can say (and call) other users, that doesn't apply to the person above as they're top of their own thread (i.e. it impossible for them to be targeting another user of HN). Swearing in and of itself isn't against the site's policies. Only thing in the comment policy you could even call up is "gratuitous negativity" but I'd argue their comment provides enough value (e.g. phytonutrients) to just call it negative rather than gratuitously negative. I'd recommend you yourself review the policy before calling out others: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
dualogy 10y ago
Which "phytonutrients" do you believe we need for better, healthier longevity.. I reckon you're not thinking of the highly beneficial (yet considered by many vegan quacks as non-essential) "brain" nutrients such as co-enzyme Q, B12 + D3, creatine, carnitine, carnosine and abundant-rather-than-subsistence amounts of Docosahexaenoic Acid aka DHA.. (I'll refrain from delving into the countless plant antinutrients that your body also has to counteract on a daily basis..)
nickbauman 10y ago
I think before you jump on this guy for not having enough evidence to support his claims, I think it might make more sense to acknowledge that there are huge holes in our understanding of nutrition. In light of this, Soylent, as well intentioned as they may be, comes across like the folks who used to say that baby formula was all a child needs to be at its healthiest in the 1960s. You have to admit what science backs Soylent as healthy compared to food that is not processed as merely macrobiotic chemicals is notoriously lacking.
- atomical 10y ago
  Soylent takes a reductionist approach. There are some great examples in the literature of where the reductionist approach doesn't work (i.e. calcium supplements and fractures).

by rjurney 10y ago

logicallee 10y ago

Could you kindly expand on your a comment a bit to be more substantive, especially near the end (write more clearly the point you are making) and then I would like to respond to the points you raised. Realize you feel strongly about it. :)

LordHumungous 10y ago
Is there a no swearing rule on HN?
1457389 10y ago
You need to take the stick out of your ass. Give me a break I thought this was "hacker" news. You can't respond to comments unless they adhere to some kind of courtesy code?
UnoriginalGuy 10y ago
I'm not them; HN's comment policies on civil discourse are largely about what can say (and call) other users, that doesn't apply to the person above as they're top of their own thread (i.e. it impossible for them to be targeting another user of HN). Swearing in and of itself isn't against the site's policies. Only thing in the comment policy you could even call up is "gratuitous negativity" but I'd argue their comment provides enough value (e.g. phytonutrients) to just call it negative rather than gratuitously negative. I'd recommend you yourself review the policy before calling out others: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dualogy 10y ago

Which "phytonutrients" do you believe we need for better, healthier longevity.. I reckon you're not thinking of the highly beneficial (yet considered by many vegan quacks as non-essential) "brain" nutrients such as co-enzyme Q, B12 + D3, creatine, carnitine, carnosine and abundant-rather-than-subsistence amounts of Docosahexaenoic Acid aka DHA.. (I'll refrain from delving into the countless plant antinutrients that your body also has to counteract on a daily basis..)

nickbauman 10y ago

I think before you jump on this guy for not having enough evidence to support his claims, I think it might make more sense to acknowledge that there are huge holes in our understanding of nutrition. In light of this, Soylent, as well intentioned as they may be, comes across like the folks who used to say that baby formula was all a child needs to be at its healthiest in the 1960s. You have to admit what science backs Soylent as healthy compared to food that is not processed as merely macrobiotic chemicals is notoriously lacking.

atomical 10y ago
Soylent takes a reductionist approach. There are some great examples in the literature of where the reductionist approach doesn't work (i.e. calcium supplements and fractures).