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Or... just drink Soylent. Don't get me wrong - I like what has been told in this article. In my world, this is day to day eating. We all eat mostly unprocessed
by deepGem 12y ago
Or... just drink Soylent. Don't get me wrong - I like what has been told in this article. In my world, this is day to day eating. We all eat mostly unprocessed food - almost 95%, even at restaurants or when we eat out food's unprocessed but definitely contaminated ( food colors, pesticides etc ). Urban elites are moving towards processed food, but it'll take a really long time before processed food takes over - I really hope that day doesn't ever come.
However, it pains me to see that in the western world, you need to take an extra effort beyond your means just to eat right, and it's ridiculously expensive for a common man earning minimum wage to do that. So for scalable nutrition in this rapidly urbanizing world, Soylent and similar solutions are my only hope.
- codewithcheese 12y agoI am very tempted by Soylent, but one key issue for me is that you miss out on thousands and probably millions of compounds that you ingest when you eat a varied diet of whole foods. There's so much unknown about what our bodies really require. Likely if you eat mostly Soylent every day you will end with a deficiency of some unrecognized but vitally important nutrient.
- sanswork 12y agoWould the variety of diets around the world not make it pretty unlikely there is some unknown but vitally important to survival nutrient in what we already eat? No matter who you are you can be pretty certain most of the world eats very differently from you.
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- willstepp 12y agoThis is exactly how I feel about processed nutrition. We don't yet know what we don't know, so we think we have it all figured out. This is true for medicine as well, but the difference is we already have a solution that works in whole, unprocessed foods.
- deepGem 12y agoYep, totally agree but Soylent is just getting started. In the next 10 - 15 years they may nail this.
- nazgulnarsil 12y agoTry some mealsquares :)
- cratermoon 12y agoThe problem with Soylent is the same issue that Michael Pollan notes in his writings: It's a substance designed for nutrients, it's not food. Food is what we eat, nutrients come with food.