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The issue I would see with the placebo sludge, would be that it would immediately present as no the real deal... As I assume one cannot live off of sugar water

• goostavos 13y ago
  I'm not a totally sure what would be a control. I typed that last section with quite a bit of haste, but I assume that it could be tested against a traditional food based meal that has similar nutritional value. The meal replacement idea is not entirely new, though, they've always been more in the area of supplement, rather than outright replacement. Things like ensure, slim fast, and a host of other meal in a can things exist. A quick googling led to this study: http://www.nutritionj.com/content/9/1/11 http://www.nutritionj.com/content/9/1/11 which indeed did follow the shake vs traditional food format. If nothing else, it could be benchmarked against existing meal replacements. I'm now actually curious how these things do get tested, and over what period of time. I'll have to hit my school's database tomorrow and see how trials have been run in the past
  • moondowner 13y ago
    Benchmarking against existing meal replacements is actually something I wish someone will do, and document it properly.
  • Andrenid 13y ago
    There's Sustagen. A medically-certified full meal replacement powder, used by hospitals and medical facilities in Australia. I've talked about it in an old thread about Soylent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399994
    • Anderkent 13y ago
      Is it available outside australia? Seems like trying to mail it to europe would be quite expensive.
      • _vn5r 13y ago
        Its available all over Central America