by CesareBorgia on 6/18/13, 3:24 PM with 98 comments
by camdykeman on 6/18/13, 4:34 PM
Look more into different kinds of protein. You might also want to do this for your carbs. Suggesting that brown sugar is a good way to "top up" our carb load is terrible advice - all cane sugars are simple sugars, meaning they jack up your glycemic index and then crash you after. Complex carbs have a completely different rate and method of metabolism.
Please don't offer this as an option to people until you've done some substantial (read minimal) research. At least Rhinehart’s project is presented as an experiment and not a hobby-kit. Theres an ethical responsibility involved in projects like this that the OP is blatently neglecting.
by run4yourlives on 6/18/13, 4:57 PM
1. I like food. The smell, experience and taste. Why in god's name would I eat powder to save myself the "hassle" of eating food? That's like promoting adoption as a method of avoiding the "hassle" of having sex.
2. Why the hell would you associate the brand of a product that you believe is healthy with a movie that is about feeding dead people back to us? That's the first thing I think about when I hear the word Soylent - that "Soylent Green is people!" Yum! Let me rush right out and get me some of that.
To me personally, Soylent is the very antithesis of the idea of living this short life I have. With like 40% of people too damn fat for their own good, I don't get how anyone sees a positive outcome for them.
by zhemao on 6/18/13, 4:17 PM
by jack-r-abbit on 6/18/13, 4:15 PM
by adamwong246 on 6/18/13, 5:37 PM
http://soylog-staging.herokuapp.com/recipes/1
This is my RoR apps that I was developing, but which has recently lapsed into inactivity, which allows you to create, modify and fork recipes in a very similar way to github. It will also (soon) allow you to track your usage, supplies and health. But for now, the project is on standby.
by speeder on 6/18/13, 4:31 PM
Well, beside making chickens get ready to be killed much faster (a farmer I talked claimed that with normal rations his chicken took 4 months to be able to be killed, with soy rations, you could sell them to be killed after 40 days), I DO tested avoiding Soy like the plague, and see if it had any effect, and it had (including I did some testosterone blood testing to check).
Also, I think eating "industrial" food is a very fast way to miss important nutrients we don't know much yet about, but are present in our daily normal food.
But I get why someone would wish to do that, sometimes I feel tempted too, specially because cooking all my food (with SO help even) on Sunday takes a long time (4, 5 hours... mostly result of having shitty kitchen), and eating food while on my PC at night is not much easy... And I hate washing dishes.
by DanBC on 6/18/13, 3:37 PM
Ensure is one well known brand. Fortisip is another.
This recipe seems to be carefully worked out - they show the working and at least have some links to proper research. And they're not making extravagant claims.
by jonathanjaeger on 6/18/13, 5:25 PM
Everybody seems to be harping on the issue that they like eating food, so why replace it. I'd love to have a great on-the-go shake that's better than meal replacement alternatives, however all this emphasis on maltodextrin as the main carb source makes me reconsider ever buying these Soylent, or similar, products.
by speedyrev on 6/18/13, 3:51 PM
by orenbarzilai on 6/18/13, 3:33 PM
by bitsweet on 6/18/13, 3:53 PM
by fudged71 on 6/18/13, 6:15 PM
by freeasinfree on 6/18/13, 5:24 PM
Why?
Why does everything have to be treated like code?
by Alex3917 on 6/18/13, 3:53 PM