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0 pointsBigJono9y ago0 comments

I suspect the intelligence correlation is the other way around to what you're implying. I'm still yet to see any evidence that Soylent or similar products are unhealthy (i.e that it takes more than a good balance of macro and micro nutrients for food to be considered "healthy"), especially when compared to an average western diet rather than an ideal one.

I have seen an awful lot of baseless appeals to nature and tradition though, both of which are indicative of low intelligence.

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akamaka9y ago

I think you're probably right, and I didn't want to make my point about general intelligence, but only focused on food knowledge.

It's hard to prove any food healthy or unhealthy, but one of the main premises of healthy eating is prefering fresh ingredients over highly processed food. The studies which support that view are large-scale and wouldn't be able to point to a specific problem with Soylent, but undoubtedly Soylent is very much on the processed side in the spectrum of foods.

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