Re:The drab stupidity of Soylent
by drharris on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @09:19AM
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The body's needs only change because you're not getting everything you need with every meal. Soylent gives you everything you need all at once. I don't see why people in the 21st century still believe there's something magic about the food we eat.
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That's blatantly ignorant. To give a few obvious examples: Changes in metabolism, bigger life changes like puberty and menopause, obviously pregnancy - these all change your dietary needs.
> The body's needs change on a regular basis
> Changes in metabolism, bigger life changes like puberty and menopause, obviously pregnancy
I do not think these things happen on a regular basis.
They happen to everyone at least twice in their life! Some people dozens of times! How common do they need to be for you to believe that messing up nutrition is problematic? It can literally kill people!
If you're going to argue that all the nutritional changes can be accounted for, I won't disagree with you. But to argue that people's dietary needs don't change is just uninformed.
Re:The drab stupidity of Soylent
by jacques_chester on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @08:00PM
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> Soylent gives you everything you need all at once.
It probably doesn't. Some people can't metabolise certain forms of B-group vitamins. Unless Soylent includes all the different forms, those people are going to develop a serious deficiency.
That's just one micronutrient, out hundreds that are currently known about.
More worrying is the consistent pattern of being dismissive of feedback from the people who study this subject as their primary concern.