Soylent: No Food For 30 Days

Daniel_Stuckey writes "Senior Editor of Motherboard Brian Merchant went an entire month without eating regular food. Instead, the journalist whisked up a concoction called soylent, an efficient take on the future of nourishment and nutrition. Merchant says: 'It was my second day on Soylent and my stomach felt like a coil of knotty old rope, slowly tightening. I wasn't hungry, but something was off. I was tired, light-headed, low-energy, but my heart was racing. My eyes glazed over as I stared out the window of our rental SUV as we drove over the fog-shrouded Bay Bridge to Oakland. Some of this was nerves, sure. I had twenty-eight days left of my month-long all-Soylent diet—I was attempting to live on the full food replacement longer than anyone besides its inventor—and I felt woozy already. ... By the third week of Soylent, not eating food seemed normal. I saw a doctor, who said I was healthy; I was still losing weight, but nothing serious. Yet, given that a daily mixture of Soylent contains 2,400 calories, both Rob and Dr. Engel thought it was odd that I’d shed so much. Dr. Engel said that given my weight, height, and body mass, I should only require about 1,800 calories a day. I could still be adjusting to the new diet, or I could have such a hyperactive metabolism that before Soylent, I was tearing through hundreds of extra calories per day and staying trim.'"

Comments

It's People.

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously, it's people. He knows this, right?

Re:It's People.

[binarylarry]

Soylent Green is people.

This looks like Soylent Beige.

Re:It's People.

[theedgeofoblivious]

Soylent Beige is beige people.

Re:It's People.

[ArcadeMan]

Nope. It's old PC towers. Turns out, they DO blend!

Brian Merchant

[wrackspurt]

A real people person ;)

Re:Brian Merchant

[evilviper]

A real people person ;)

"Soylent... the great taste of friends!"

Re:Brian Merchant

[Anonymous Coward]

A real people person ;)

Maybe the guy lost weight because the Soylent green was made from the skinny people.

You know what they say, you are what you eat.

Re:Brian Merchant

[Anonymous Coward]

This soylent green tastes funny... oh look, the box says "May contain clowns".

Daniel Tosh was right

[JoeyRox]

"We wonder why other countries hate us? I love that! We have a game show in our country called "Survivor." Thats a GAME in our country! ...You can win a million dollars for surviving on a place where people already live! Do you realize what kind of message that sends? Not a good one!"

Re:Daniel Tosh was right

[Anonymous Coward]

Real men camps in their mom's garden!

Re:Daniel Tosh was right

[slick7]

In poor countries, only the rich can afford to get fat.

In rich countries, only the rich can afford to stay thin.

Feed the homeless to the hungry, it's for the national security of the children.

Re: Daniel Tosh was right

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

So... Not only are you losing weight, you're saving money. If you keep this up ... You'll be thin and rich?

Soyent Beige

[Anonymous Coward]

Could have added some food coloring at least after choosing that name, given its provenance.

But hey, if some Californian dude wants to starve himself by drinking some awful looking concotion, instead of eating, you know, actual food, then the sum total of knowledge gained from human scientific research will have increased by at least the words "what a fool".

Soylent Yellow

[Anonymous Coward]

If you ate Soylent Yellow made from Chinese people, would you be hungry again in an hour?

Ahem

[garompeta]

"but if I had any money or a girlfriend I would probably eat out more often"

lol, that explains a lot

Re:Who was eating all those excess calories?

[evilviper]

Every order of Soylent comes with a FREE TAPEWORM!

Re:Who was eating all those excess calories?

[viperidaenz]

I don't care, sugar tastes better.