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Why does everyone insist on recommending people consume completely inappropriate "alternatives" to soylent that will cause health problems with 100% certainty?

by asdasf 13y ago

DanBC 13y ago
Wait, what? Commercial providers have been making and supplying these foods for many years, and they've been used in a variety of settings for a long time. How are these worse than Soylent, a product created by people who don't know what they're doing in their kitchens and advertised with a variety of probably illegal claims used with no medical supervision?
- asdasf 13y ago
  They have been making and supplying them for many years, but they are not designed as a replacement for food, and do not contain 100% of known essential nutrients. Recommending something that we absolutely know for certain is not complete because you have an irrational hate-boner for soylent is absurd. Your claims about soylent are false by the way, which really doesn't help your case at all.
  - DanBC 13y ago
    > but they are not designed as a replacement for food, and do not contain 100% of known essential nutrients. This is wrong. I'm not sure what products you're talking about. But there are products that are designed to be used as a sole source of nutrition. > Recommending something that we absolutely know for certain is not complete because you have an irrational hate-boner for soylent is absurd. > Your claims about soylent are false by the way, which really doesn't help your case at all. Feel free to rebut anything I've said with links. Soylent have no dieticians on staff, or anyone with any nutrition qualifications. So far all product has been produced in their kitchen. Several mistakes in formulation have been made. Errors in mixing (not taking fineness of powers into account, for example) have been shown.
    - asdasf 13y ago
      >I'm not sure what products you're talking about The ones referenced in the post I replied to. >Soylent have no dieticians on staff Yes they do. >So far all product has been produced in their kitchen No, it hasn't. >Several mistakes in formulation have been made And you seem to be under the misconception that it is still some guy tossing stuff together in his kitchen. That is not the case.
      - DanBC 13y ago
        > The ones referenced in the post I replied to. The FBFs are complete foods. The others are supplements designed to help in cases of extreme malnutrition, or in cases of mild malnutrition. >> Soylent have no dieticians on staff > > Yes they do. (https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body) Rob Rhinehart - CEO Matt Cauble - COO John Coogan - CTO David Renteln - VP Business Development/Sales Julio Miles - VP Customer Success You'd have thought they'd list the dieticians. I get no results when I search the Soylent blog. (http://blog.soylent.me/search/dietitian)(http://blog.soylent.me/search/dietician) http://blog.soylent.me/search/dietitian)(http://blog.soylent... Please, help me out. Who are the dietitians on the Soylent staff?
        asdasf 13y ago
        Why do you think they would list every single employee and contractor in their funding campaign? Why do you think I know their names? They say those people exist, there is no reason to believe otherwise, you contradict them with no evidence. http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/rob-rhinehart-interview-soylent-never-eat-again http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/rob-rhinehart-interview-soyle...
        jacques_chester 13y ago
        So there are no dietitians listed anywhere, in any form, but you feel there must be a secret dietitian somewhere because the Soylent boys are such swells?
        13y ago

Why does everyone insist on recommending people consume completely inappropriate "alternatives" to soylent that will cause health problems with 100% certainty?

by asdasf 13y ago

Why does everyone insist on recommending people consume completely inappropriate "alternatives" to soylent that will cause health problems with 100% certainty?

DanBC 13y ago

Wait, what? Commercial providers have been making and supplying these foods for many years, and they've been used in a variety of settings for a long time. How are these worse than Soylent, a product created by people who don't know what they're doing in their kitchens and advertised with a variety of probably illegal claims used with no medical supervision?

asdasf 13y ago
They have been making and supplying them for many years, but they are not designed as a replacement for food, and do not contain 100% of known essential nutrients. Recommending something that we absolutely know for certain is not complete because you have an irrational hate-boner for soylent is absurd. Your claims about soylent are false by the way, which really doesn't help your case at all.
- DanBC 13y ago
  > but they are not designed as a replacement for food, and do not contain 100% of known essential nutrients. This is wrong. I'm not sure what products you're talking about. But there are products that are designed to be used as a sole source of nutrition. > Recommending something that we absolutely know for certain is not complete because you have an irrational hate-boner for soylent is absurd. > Your claims about soylent are false by the way, which really doesn't help your case at all. Feel free to rebut anything I've said with links. Soylent have no dieticians on staff, or anyone with any nutrition qualifications. So far all product has been produced in their kitchen. Several mistakes in formulation have been made. Errors in mixing (not taking fineness of powers into account, for example) have been shown.
  - asdasf 13y ago
    >I'm not sure what products you're talking about The ones referenced in the post I replied to. >Soylent have no dieticians on staff Yes they do. >So far all product has been produced in their kitchen No, it hasn't. >Several mistakes in formulation have been made And you seem to be under the misconception that it is still some guy tossing stuff together in his kitchen. That is not the case.
    - DanBC 13y ago
      > The ones referenced in the post I replied to. The FBFs are complete foods. The others are supplements designed to help in cases of extreme malnutrition, or in cases of mild malnutrition. >> Soylent have no dieticians on staff > > Yes they do. (https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body) Rob Rhinehart - CEO Matt Cauble - COO John Coogan - CTO David Renteln - VP Business Development/Sales Julio Miles - VP Customer Success You'd have thought they'd list the dieticians. I get no results when I search the Soylent blog. (http://blog.soylent.me/search/dietitian)(http://blog.soylent.me/search/dietician) http://blog.soylent.me/search/dietitian)(http://blog.soylent... Please, help me out. Who are the dietitians on the Soylent staff?
      - asdasf 13y ago
        Why do you think they would list every single employee and contractor in their funding campaign? Why do you think I know their names? They say those people exist, there is no reason to believe otherwise, you contradict them with no evidence. http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/rob-rhinehart-interview-soylent-never-eat-again http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/rob-rhinehart-interview-soyle...
        jacques_chester 13y ago
        So there are no dietitians listed anywhere, in any form, but you feel there must be a secret dietitian somewhere because the Soylent boys are such swells?
        13y ago