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How I Stopped Eating Food
- bluetidepro 14y ago> Error establishing a database connection Anyone have a mirror?
- hcarvalhoalves 14y agoTL;DR Someone trying to sell you on another crazy diet. A complete enteral diet (when you're in the hospital and they feed it to you in a tube) is both extremely hard to achieve and expensive, not to mention the collateral effects. Then there's this guy claiming that he can not only live on a carb/protein/fat shake he made on his kitchen, but that it gave him superpowers and it's cheap to boot. He even gave it a market name already. Not flying with me.
- nathan_f77 14y agoI agree that this is most likely a scam, but just wanted to point out that the 'market name' is just a reference to a movie called 'Soylent Green': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
- guylhem 14y agoI think you are mistaking parenteral and enteral. The difference is where the tube goes. Feeding someone with a tube is difficult only if the tube goes into the bloodstream. If it goes to the stomach, a normal meal + a blender is all that is needed (or the fancy and overpriced equivalents sold for a small fortune to the hospitals) If it goes to the bloodstream, it can't be food, and the problem is we don't exactly know yet everything it should contain. For example, I remember in ICUs in the 1990s and early 2000, carnithin was the topic of many discussions. See for example http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2115077 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2115077 There must be a new fad now.
- DigitalTurk 14y ago> Error establishing a database connection Seems like the author's blog is starving too.
- schoper 14y agoHe mentions that his bowel movements have stopped on the "Soylent." I'd watch out for gall bladder disease if I were him.
- kevinthew 14y ago"My cravings and tastes closely matched with my needs. One day I accidentally put in a tablespoon of salt, rather than a teaspoon. I immediately noticed the mixture tasted unpleasantly salty. When I was deficient of iron I felt a strong craving for red meat. As I started running longer distances I craved more carbohydrates. After a week advertisements for fast food looked repulsive. All I crave is Soylent." Man, this is super creepy stuff
- IheartApplesDix 14y agoThis seems to be some kind of writing experiment about the implications of "soylent" rather than a technical piece. It tries to speak toward the sociology food in culture, but it doesn't really go into great depth. What is the point of this? Considering the present day use of factory farms, I think any impact it desires is cheapened.
- hammock 14y agoIt looks remarkably like the "bowl of snot" that Neo and his buddies eat in the Matrix. "It's a single-celled protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins, and minerals. Everything the body needs." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oEnJfZ9joY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oEnJfZ9joY
- bitwize 14y agoHow do you know it's not Tastee Wheat? Do any of us know what Tastee Wheat looked or tasted like?
- coderzach 14y agoSoylent Green is people!
- ckluis 14y agoI was just thinking does no one remember classic sci fi?
- mchahn 14y agoBut Soylent Green wasn't people. That was a hollywood fantasy to sell more tickets. It was actually an artificial meat product engineered to taste like people. The book was awesome, the movie sucked. I remember in the movie that a front-loader was scooping up people to slaughter.
- Shorel 14y agoAccording to some cannibal anecdotes, people taste like pigs. So the artificial meat product would be simply pig meat. Soylent bacon.
- stove 14y agoAnyone else see an Onion headline in this? "Area Man Loses Weight By Not Eating For A Month"
- eggbrain 14y agoI get immediately suspicious when the ingredients to make such a product aren't listed. Run faster, think clearer, all for 1/5th the price, with just one simple trick a single mom found! I'll assume this must be either satire or a sales pitch until proven otherwise -- I fully expect the first ingredient if listed to be "premium snake oil".
- Jemm 14y agoThe formula has been posted.
- guylhem 14y agoI love this approach, and I would like to know more about the actual composition of his Soylent meal to check for other "missing things" such as iron which was mentioned in the article, and whether the correct biodisponible versions are used (you can't get much iron from eating screws). I'm especially curious about the proteins. Then after careful checking, I'd like to try that myself! Food is a waste of time. It is something you do because it has to be done. You can save time by eating out (but you may still lose time standing in line, going there, etc.) but you are just trading time for money and getting food that might not be optimal for your body. At the moment, the best I've found is microwaving frozen food as the best tradeoff between time spent/healthy content/price : frozen minced meat and whole rice can be cooked in ~ 3 minutes for 1 person. I add a fruit, usually an apple and I call that a meal. Sometimes I replace the minced meat by a box of tuna or herring (once or twice per weak) to get fish oil, and on weekends the meal is replaced by french saucisson and cheese (ready in 30 seconds : you cut yourself a portion!! even better !!) + fruit. I drink half a glass of acerola/mango/etc. juice each day for vitamins I could be missing. I eat when I feel hungry - usually in the morning and in the afternoon, sometimes before going to bed I add an apple (I've noticed if I don't, I wake up around 4 am - maybe due to a too low glucose level). I do workout about 3 times a week - I then replace the apple by a full meal - same standard composition. Not only do I feel better as the author mentioned (but I doubt that - these many little things could be just a placebo effect) but also, above all, I feel free. I don't have to overthink what food I have to prepare or chose or anything like this - just sticking to the default. It's like creating a good habit - easy to follow is the selling point, healthy effects are sideproducts. No time lost in the supermarket. Sometimes I buy random stuff to check if it could be added to my default, but so far nothing stuck. Now after reading that article I would like to improve it even more : I could replace the weekend saucisson + cheese by something that takes even less time, and that could be drunk. That's hacking the body :-)
- juletide 14y agofor clarification: I'm fairly certain this piece is meant to be a satire of lifehacker/self-improvement/etc-ish block posts...
- aw3c2 14y agoSame here. 3.14 miles is a nice touch. ;)
- drinchev 14y agoSo how can we make this Soyent? If it really costs 50$/month then it should be easy to made.
- up_and_up 14y ago"Error establishing a database connection" As a developer, yeah thats usually when the pager goes off and I have to put down my lunch.
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- kbutler 14y agoAn engineered food replace drink named "Soylent"? It's a spoof. Researched every substance the body needs to survive, but missed iron? And "heart racing" from iron deficiency on the third day, then corrected immediately? Yep, it's a spoof.
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- lyesit 14y agoIt would seem that all the benefits the author described are relative to his health before he started this diet. Is it possible then that the diet corrected some previous nutrient deficiency and that the same result could have been obtained by just taking a multivitamin or something?
- kvprashant 14y agoDr. Hyde, is that you?!
- kvprashant 14y agoUPDATE: The site is now down. Probably too much load and MySQL service has been shut down
- nathan_f77 14y agoHere's a more realistic version: http://www.angryman.ca/monkey.html http://www.angryman.ca/monkey.html
- NotThatGuyToo 14y agoVery suspicious indeed but here's something similar backed by science. http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/12/28/aging-longevity-chasing-cures.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/12/28/aging-longevi...
- kazuya 14y agoStrange, no mention about excretions. The author did blood tests but no urine tests.