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Comment author: sanddbox 22 May 2013 06:32:41AM 1 point [-]

Total meal replacement shakes exist, although I have no idea about pricing. However, going down this route is basically ensuring sub-optimal nutrition. We know a ton about nutrition, but not enough to have an optimal diet without food.

Comment author: wedrifid 22 May 2013 07:04:45AM 3 points [-]

Total meal replacement shakes exist, although I have no idea about pricing. However, going down this route is basically ensuring sub-optimal nutrition.

Very nearly every other diet is also sub-optimal. Most of them are quite probably worse than what we can do via supplementation.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 22 May 2013 07:25:28AM 1 point [-]

I looked at what's available in Finnish pharmacies, and they seem to be in the $20 a day ballpark mentioned elsewhere in the thread if you aren't going to eat anything else.