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Re:The drab stupidity of Soylent by pejoculant on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @08:50AM (#6205344)
This whole line of argument presupposes that there is some sort of magic ratio of nutrients for each person and that if they don't hit exactly those numbers they will suffer some vague disastrous consequences (coughing a lot from eating too much pizza and mac-and-cheese?).

Our metabolisms are way more adaptable than that. Generally if you're even in the right ballpark you are fine. There's clearly no exact optimal diet (even at an individualized level). If it were this way people would be keeling over left and right.

Re:The drab stupidity of Soylent by xutopia on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @08:52AM (#6205356)
I thought the author had made it clear that the coughing bouts were caused by the marijuana.
Re:The drab stupidity of Soylent by jacques_chester on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @09:17AM (#6205476)
Whose line of argument?