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The fact that you belive you can "sum up the ingredients to make a well rounded meal from a bunch of separte foods" shows that you don't get it: You cannot do
by OneGuy123 6y ago
The fact that you belive you can "sum up the ingredients to make a well rounded meal from a bunch of separte foods" shows that you don't get it:
You cannot do that because you incorrectly think that there is all there is to food: there are many things that we eat all the time which we are not aware of that end up being important to our diet.
It's arrogant to think you can "sum" ingredients and actually get all the nutrients that you need.
- eloff 6y agoAny diet can be described as just "summing" ingredients. There's no magic here that could in theory prevent replacing part or all of a diet with differently derived foods. This protein by itself would potentially just be a small part of a healthy diet, but it's the start of something bigger.
- OneGuy123 6y agoNo it cannot BECAUSE YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT EXACTLY YOU NEED. This is what you people fail to understand: the belief that you can look in a textbook on nutrition and then sum up all the "requirements" is totaly wrong because the body is a complex system and to believe you can artificaly sum up parts and replace what nature has fine-tuned in a package for millions of year is stupid.
- chr1 6y agoDo you argue that we cannot do this in principle, or that we cannot do it yet? The second can be true but considering that people have lived on all kinds of different diets, there should not be too many unique components vital to survival/health, so we'll figure them all out eventually.