<story><title>Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks</title><url>http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/08/20/soylent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jurassic</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s the big deal?  What this guy is eating already is definitely above average in quality.  A Chipotle burrito bol (fresh whole ingredients, sans tortilla) is a legit meal.  Other than dental impacts from the carbonation, health hysteria about diet soda and aspartame has been debunked.  I don&amp;#x27;t know about the take-out Thai, but at least it&amp;#x27;s real food and not some preservative-laden packaged food product from the grocery store.  Not everybody has 5 hours a day or a stay-at-home wife to cook their Whole Foods organic produce into a masterpiece of nutrition.</text></item><item><author>cup</author><text>Soylent aside, im amazed at how terrible his traditional normal days meal is? I mean hes eating a processed breakfast subsitute in the morning, take away mexican food with a soft drink for lunch and more take away for dinner.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t need to be a nutritionist to know thats going to have a terrible impact on his life later down the track.&lt;p&gt;Postnote: Now that Ive read the whole article, I wonder if all the benefits he attributes to Soylent could actually be attributed to cutting so much crap out of his diet?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsynnott</author><text>&amp;gt; Not everybody has 5 hours a day or a stay-at-home wife to cook their Whole Foods organic produce into a masterpiece of nutrition.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m guessing from this that you&amp;#x27;ve never cooked in your life?&lt;p&gt;(Hint: Pretty much nobody cooks five hours a day unless it is their job. I mostly cook for myself, and I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;ve ever really spent more than 30 minutes of active work on it).</text></comment>
<story><title>Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks</title><url>http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/08/20/soylent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jurassic</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s the big deal?  What this guy is eating already is definitely above average in quality.  A Chipotle burrito bol (fresh whole ingredients, sans tortilla) is a legit meal.  Other than dental impacts from the carbonation, health hysteria about diet soda and aspartame has been debunked.  I don&amp;#x27;t know about the take-out Thai, but at least it&amp;#x27;s real food and not some preservative-laden packaged food product from the grocery store.  Not everybody has 5 hours a day or a stay-at-home wife to cook their Whole Foods organic produce into a masterpiece of nutrition.</text></item><item><author>cup</author><text>Soylent aside, im amazed at how terrible his traditional normal days meal is? I mean hes eating a processed breakfast subsitute in the morning, take away mexican food with a soft drink for lunch and more take away for dinner.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t need to be a nutritionist to know thats going to have a terrible impact on his life later down the track.&lt;p&gt;Postnote: Now that Ive read the whole article, I wonder if all the benefits he attributes to Soylent could actually be attributed to cutting so much crap out of his diet?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ovoxo</author><text>&amp;quot;Not everybody has 5 hours a day or a stay-at-home wife to cook their Whole Foods organic produce into a masterpiece of nutrition.&amp;quot; ... you sir must live in the same age that your username implies.&lt;p&gt;Also, your argument here is silly. This guy&amp;#x27;s diet is not &amp;quot;above average&amp;quot; in quality by any means and a Chipotle Burito Bol is not a &amp;quot;legit meal&amp;quot; based on what one would consider to be a healthy lifestyle. The amount of sodium alone in those things is enough to make me and some of your organs cringe - literally.&lt;p&gt;Go to the grocery store. Pick up some raw foods. Cook them on a Sunday night. Put them in the fridge. Pat yourself on the back. You&amp;#x27;ve just managed to prep your lunch&amp;#x2F;dinner for the week and you did it all without having to find a stay-at-home wife.</text></comment>