<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>obstacle1</author><text>One burrito bowl can contain something like 75% of your daily sodium intake. The calorie:vitamin ratio is also terrible.&lt;p&gt;Go play around with their nutrition calculator [1]. It&amp;#x27;s fast food.&lt;p&gt;[1] - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chipotle.com/en-us/menu/nutrition_calculator/nutrition_calculator.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.chipotle.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;menu&amp;#x2F;nutrition_calculator&amp;#x2F;nutr...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>