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.'"

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[flyneye]

Must've gotten a large supply for free to shill it.
Well , he's well on his way to intestinal problems, digestive problems and lowering his I.Q.
Synthetic garbage can NEVER replace the fuel we are set up for.
Honestly it's as bad as taking Zoloft, Effexor and others to " get better", also, never going to happen, but you will spend a lot of money and waste a lot of your life doing so. I f a moron can advocate others taking this food, perhaps it is the first sign that his code is shit as well as his brain. He certainly lacks as a journalist.
We need regulators to regulate the Food and Drug regulators. Possibly stick a cattle prod up their ass, weekly until they "GET IT".