"Never Eating Again"...?

Loasaur
Loasaur Posts: 125
in Food and Nutrition
I thought this was neat but I'm not sure if it's realistic and thought I would share it with everyone. It sounds really cool to me!

http://blog.soylent.me/post/52757545878/weve-been-getting-some-great-coverage-of-soylent

http://www.forbes.com/sites/calebmelby/2013/06/10/a-week-without-real-food-i-survived-and-learned-to-enjoy-soylent/

TL;DR: Apparently a man has decided to "never eat again" by inventing a nutritional drink that fulfills all of the bodies needs. He's personally been testing it for quite a while and has had some very interesting results.
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  • Loasaur
    Loasaur Posts: 125
    Any takers? :]
  • Kalaehdhari
    Kalaehdhari Posts: 20 Member
    I actually bought a month's supply during the funding campaign. I'm thinking that it might have some potential for a quick meal, but I'm not ready to give up food just yet! I'll let y'all know how it goes when it gets here.
  • Loasaur
    Loasaur Posts: 125
    Awesome! I've been thinking of buying it but I'm just not sure. It does say to have regular meals at least twice a week to make sure that you're getting enough exercise with your mouth (as you won't be chewing anymore) it also says to chew some gum too. Please let me know how it works out for you! :]
  • Nov3mberMistt
    Nov3mberMistt Posts: 25 Member
    I dunno. Maybe it's cuz hubby's a chef, but I find myself less and less trusting of things that are not real food. chemically created nutrients...? I'm not even that big on supplements, :p

    good luck though.
  • mytabouly
    mytabouly Posts: 66 Member
    I think thats just ridiculous. Taste is one of the five senses we use to experience life. You're just depriving yourself of one of your senses by ingesting this sludge.
  • refuseresist
    refuseresist Posts: 934 Member
    Soylent?

    Soylent Green?
  • surreygirl23
    surreygirl23 Posts: 85 Member
    Aggg... Surely the pleasure of eating is not just the tastes but the textures, the inter-marriage between soft and crispy, sweet and salty, sometimes you want cake, sometimes a cracker. Sometimes a piece of cheese, sometimes a piece of chocolate. Sometimes an egg for breakfast, sometimes a bowl of muesli.
    I've just discovered watermelon and feta salad for instance, which is a divine combination.

    And what the hell is IN this gunk? do you really want to ingest it?
  • makemewannadie
    makemewannadie Posts: 401 Member
    Very interesting stuff!
    https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body
  • refuseresist
    refuseresist Posts: 934 Member
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  • flumi_f
    flumi_f Posts: 1,888 Member
    That's no fun. I enjoy creating good, tasty, colorful meals and eating them.
  • Candi_land
    Candi_land Posts: 1,311 Member
    I don't want to live in a world where food exists but isn't in my mouth.
  • Baloostika
    Baloostika Posts: 203 Member
    Did I hear somebody say eating clean is the way to go? No , tank u, I don't do processed food.
  • refuseresist
    refuseresist Posts: 934 Member
    This has got to be a wind up
  • JesterMFP
    JesterMFP Posts: 3,596 Member
    I thought this was neat but I'm not sure if it's realistic and thought I would share it with everyone. It sounds really cool to me!

    http://blog.soylent.me/post/52757545878/weve-been-getting-some-great-coverage-of-soylent

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/calebmelby/2013/06/10/a-week-without-real-food-i-survived-and-learned-to-enjoy-soylent/

    TL;DR: Apparently a man has decided to "never eat again" by inventing a nutritional drink that fulfills all of the bodies needs. He's personally been testing it for quite a while and has had some very interesting results.
    Sounds cool. Having to eat food has really been dragging me down lately. This looks like the perfect solution.
  • MyHealthyTemple
    MyHealthyTemple Posts: 46 Member
    Give me real food anyday!
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    What is up tonight with MFP and wanting to drink everything?
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    Soylent?

    Soylent Green?

    You read my mind!:laugh: :laugh:

    I can't imagine why anyone would want to give up one of life's greatest pleasures?
  • Luckee_me
    Luckee_me Posts: 1,425 Member
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    This
    Bahahahahaha
  • nikilis
    nikilis Posts: 2,305 Member
    soylent-green-2.png

    This
    Bahahahahaha

    yah... I like to know who im eating. free range country folk certified for me.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    I can't imagine why anyone would ever want to do this. It sounds like a genuinely terrible way to live one's life.
  • CyberEd312
    CyberEd312 Posts: 3,536 Member
    Um No...... Just No......... <Shakes head and walks away> :grumble:
  • l_clc
    l_clc Posts: 126 Member
    What the.....???? I can't understand why anyone would want to give up food. It makes no sense to me on any level, sorry. But hey, if you want to- all the power to you. Enjoy it!
  • SpecialSundae
    SpecialSundae Posts: 795 Member
    No mention of fibre...
  • CrazyTrackLady
    CrazyTrackLady Posts: 1,337 Member
    When they invent a substitute for oxygen, then I'm ALL IN. Until then, no.
  • Pinkranger626
    Pinkranger626 Posts: 460 Member
    It sounds a lot like Shakeology from Beach Body.... without the flavoring or the real foods. My biggest questions are: the blog and trial from both the creator and the journalist said that he "jogged" 3-5 days a week about 3 miles....that's nowhere near the amount of activity that I do in a day. What would this miracle drink do for someone like me who has a higher calorie demand? How many calories are actually in this? It also looks like there's no actual food in this mixture and that it's all chemicals which means man-made materials, haven't studies found over and over again that the body can't process a lot of the man-made "food" as well (if at all) as real, natural food? It makes me curious, but I don't think I would trust it to work with my lifestyle and how I want to feed my body. If someone is active 6-7 days per week and using weight training, cardio etc. how do the muscles respond? He also doesn't mention anything about elimination, elimination is the body's natural detoxifier, if it's an all liquid diet then is all the waste being moved from the body the same way? Could ketosis be something to worry about like you can get if you do the juice cleanse thing? I don't know, it makes me really nervous.
  • Deipneus
    Deipneus Posts: 1,854 Member
    I would never quit eating for fear that I'd lose the ability to chew and digest real food. But, I've actually wondered why we have dog food and cat food but not people food. Now we do!
  • endoftheside
    endoftheside Posts: 568 Member
    I at times feel quite inconvenienced by the tedium of eating yet.again. Didn't I just eat 6 hours ago--I have things to do!! I read some sci fi book as a teenager where the people just swallowed a pill instead of eating and I thought that would be great.

    Then I grew up, learned that food is more than just calories, macros, and the limited number of micros we have studied. Scientists find something promising in a fruit, turn it into an extract, and then realize it doesn't have the same effects in isolation. A meal replacement here or there isn't going to be the end of the world, but they are kidding themselves to think they can never eat again without serious problems. To think we have the answer when we don't even understand the question yet and likely never will, not completely--yep, it's part of the human condition, but something we need to fight against not blindly embrace.
  • chelley_79
    chelley_79 Posts: 102 Member
    Soylent?

    Soylent Green?

    HA!!! :laugh:
  • pixie_face
    pixie_face Posts: 5 Member
    A foodies worst nightmare! Nooooo!

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