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zedzed comments on Optimal eating (or rather, a step in the right direction) - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: c_edwards 19 January 2015 01:35AM

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Comment author: zedzed 20 January 2015 02:57:46PM *  1 point [-]

See also discussion here, in particular, soylent green (unsuitable for OP because hypoglycemia), soylent orange (yay complex carbs!) and ketosoylent (most recently Yudkowsky's Mildly Surprising Super Ketonic Dietary Replacement Fluid: Your Alternative To Healthy Eating.)

Comment author: c_edwards 20 January 2015 03:47:26PM 0 points [-]

I probably should try adding soylent orange to my overall plan. Some part of me is uncomfortable with the idea of meal replacement shakes, but I don't think that's a rational feeling.

The only rational argument against it that I can think of is the same argument against repeating the same meal every day - the lack of diet diversity. RomeoStevens seems to have found no intermediate-term health issues on a mainly-soylent-orange diet, but additionally if I'm using soylent orange as only a part of my diet, I'm still going to have a decent mix of food sources.

Time to dust off the blender.