Jayson_Virissimo comments on Soylent Orange - Whole food open source soylent - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 26 March 2013 10:54:46PM 3 points [-]

Coconut milk is probably the best bet, but almond milk isn't bad (in small quantities). I would avoid soy milk since it might diminish cognitive abilities.

Comment author: quiet 27 March 2013 08:22:10PM *  0 points [-]

Has this study been corroborated? 13 years should be enough time for a modest amount of supporting evidence to become known.

Comment author: gwern 27 March 2013 09:15:31PM 7 points [-]

If you plug 'Brain aging and midlife tofu consumption' into Google Scholar, one of the little links under the first hit points to 'Cited by 176'; if you click on that, you can hit a checkbox for 'Search within citing articles'; then you can search a query like "experiment OR randomized OR blind" which yields 121 results.

The first result shows no negative effect and a trend to a benefit, the second is inaccessible, the second & third are reviews whose abstract suggests it would argue for benefits, and the fourth discusses sleep & mood benefits to soy diets.

Then I got bored and stopped reading. Really, either you or Jayson could (and maybe should) have done this.