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0 pointssmallnamespace9y ago0 comments

I don't know what your living arrangements are, but I've found that if you're living with others, sharing food prep responsibilities can be efficient in both time and money. Obviously, that does require some time investment in learning to cook.

I hope Soylent works out for you, I'm just really doubtful that it's a reliable long term solution. It's our hubris in thinking we understood nutrition that led to stuff like trans fats being added to everything. Hope this isn't just repeating the same mistake.

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Klathmon9y ago· 2 in thread

I personally think soylent is putting a lot more research into their shakes or bars in terms of nutrition than the yogurt company is for my wife's morning breakfast...

smallnamespaceOP9y ago

If you mean reading existing published research, I think they probably are doing that.

But they're certainly not funding a lab that is doing new nutritional science research, because that would cost tens of millions of dollars a year.

I think the risk is that they'll be missing ingredients that are rather important to the human body that we don't know about yet.

Even the idea a 'vitamin' didn't exist until about ~100 years ago.

Klathmon9y ago

But why do you worry about soylent not having everything you need to live, but not your morning cereal?

Why does one meal made by a tech company need to have literally everything you need to live when the alternatives don't?

I'm not saying soylent is all you need to live, and I'm pretty sure they aren't either, just that it's a healthy meal replacement.

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