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The whole thing is hilarious. Sorry, but nutrition is not like math or C++, where you can teach it to yourself by googling things and reading textbooks. Has he
by mamoswined 14y ago
The whole thing is hilarious. Sorry, but nutrition is not like math or C++, where you can teach it to yourself by googling things and reading textbooks. Has he even read the massive body of research on food replacement in the form of parenteral and enteral nutrition? For those people it's a matter of life or death, since many patients are incapable of eating. They have to do a lot better than he does.
- crusso 14y agoHe's not stitching the molecules for Soylent together atom by atom - he's mixing up various nutrients based upon his ongoing research. Given the complete crap that many people eat and manage to live on, his attempt to educate himself and take control of his nutrition this way is worthy of respect and emulation - not derision.
- mamoswined 14y agoThat's a strawman. There are plenty of people in the food world to respect and emulate. It's not a matter of just this guy vs. junk food eaters.
- rthomas6 14y ago>Sorry, but nutrition is not like math or C++, where you can teach it to yourself by googling things and reading textbooks. That's probably true, but hopefully one day nutrition science will be on that level. Perhaps then a much smaller amount of people will have things like obesity and type II diabetes.
- illuminate 14y ago"hopefully one day nutrition science will be on that level" No other field of hard science is, anyone who offers an alternative is probably selling you snake oil.
- rthomas6 14y agoI'm not sure I agree. For instance, I think I could get a pretty good understanding of chemistry, physics, or astronomy by doing nothing but studying textbooks.
- anoplus 14y agoTo develop an "app" You need a good "emulator". Organize world's medical info into intuitive human body simulation. Who wouldn't want to pay for using human body simulation?