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Many people eat nothing but unhealthy crap for years and still stay relatively healthy. Human body is really good at metabolising even a limited variety of food

by zavi 12y ago

Many people eat nothing but unhealthy crap for years and still stay relatively healthy. Human body is really good at metabolising even a limited variety of food into many different chemicals it needs. Well-balanced diet hasn't really been a thing in human history until recently. Mix of nutrients designed to our best knowledge can't be any worse than eating pizza/fries/burgers/soda 24/7.

dirktheman 12y ago
You're reasoning that eating fast food isn't all that bad for you, and for that Soylent can't be worse? Because there are countless clinical trials and scientific researches that prove a correlation between fast food and heart disease, cancer et al. All I'm saying is that for a product like Soylent the long term effects haven't been studied yet. To be clear: I'm not biased against Soylent. If it's indeed just as healthy as regular food it can save a lot of time, and maybe it can even solve some hunger issues in the third world. I'm merely saying it should be studied more before jumping on the bandwagon. I mean, it's made by a 25 year old electrical engineer who failed a cheap cellphone tower startup. In an apartment in The Tenderloin. If you want to put your life in his hands by all means go ahead, but I'll just stick with actual food for now, at least until I see the results of some clinical trials. On a side note: food as a business is hard. Medicin is even harder. There are so many rules, regulations, government agencies, etcetera. They're mostly there for a reason: to keep food and medicine safe. I hope these guys realize what they're getting into. If there's only a hint of claiming something is 'just as healty as regular food' you're opening a giant can of worms...
- glenra 12y ago
  You know how something gets studied? People try it. There are no "clinical trials" proving eating grapefruit is safe. Or hot dogs. Or bread. Or any specific cracker you find in the cracker aisle. Soylent is food. People eat food; if they like it they sometimes eat more and if they crave something else they eat something else. This is a non-problem. > I mean, it's made by a 25 year old electrical engineer who failed a cheap cellphone tower startup. In an apartment in The Tenderloin. If you want to put your life in his hands by all means go ahead When you buy a burrito at Chipotle you're eating something that's made by a 19-year-old who's probably failed at something too, but it'd be weird to call eating that burrito "putting your life in his hands".

by zavi 12y ago

dirktheman 12y ago

You're reasoning that eating fast food isn't all that bad for you, and for that Soylent can't be worse? Because there are countless clinical trials and scientific researches that prove a correlation between fast food and heart disease, cancer et al. All I'm saying is that for a product like Soylent the long term effects haven't been studied yet. To be clear: I'm not biased against Soylent. If it's indeed just as healthy as regular food it can save a lot of time, and maybe it can even solve some hunger issues in the third world. I'm merely saying it should be studied more before jumping on the bandwagon. I mean, it's made by a 25 year old electrical engineer who failed a cheap cellphone tower startup. In an apartment in The Tenderloin. If you want to put your life in his hands by all means go ahead, but I'll just stick with actual food for now, at least until I see the results of some clinical trials. On a side note: food as a business is hard. Medicin is even harder. There are so many rules, regulations, government agencies, etcetera. They're mostly there for a reason: to keep food and medicine safe. I hope these guys realize what they're getting into. If there's only a hint of claiming something is 'just as healty as regular food' you're opening a giant can of worms...

glenra 12y ago
You know how something gets studied? People try it. There are no "clinical trials" proving eating grapefruit is safe. Or hot dogs. Or bread. Or any specific cracker you find in the cracker aisle. Soylent is food. People eat food; if they like it they sometimes eat more and if they crave something else they eat something else. This is a non-problem. > I mean, it's made by a 25 year old electrical engineer who failed a cheap cellphone tower startup. In an apartment in The Tenderloin. If you want to put your life in his hands by all means go ahead When you buy a burrito at Chipotle you're eating something that's made by a 19-year-old who's probably failed at something too, but it'd be weird to call eating that burrito "putting your life in his hands".