Rob Rhinehart, a 24-year-old software engineer from Atlanta, has been living on a liquid diet for the past three months and says he has never felt better. He has combined all the nutrients he needs in a shake-like drink named Soylent which allegedly contains just a third of the calories and no toxins or cancer-causing substances.
You might be tempted to believe that Rob switched from solid foods to Soylent to lose weight, but that’s only one of his reasons. After realizing he was spending around 2 hours every day cooking food, the young software engineer decided something had to be done to make eating and all the work it involves less time-consuming.
Conventional food was also affecting his finances and physical strength, so being the experimental person he is he started looking for a better alternative to common food. Reading biology books made him think that the cells of the human body don’t really know the difference between nutrients from a carrot and those from a powder, so he started scouring the Internet for every essential nutrient in powdered form. Soon, his kitchen looked more like a chemistry lab in which he experimented with various quantities of powders until he found the mix that worked for him.
For the past three months he has lived on Soylent alone, and says he has noticed a massive boost to his focus, stamina, physique, and free time.
Must be odd, though, to go out on a date where your date is chomping away on a fillet mignon, baked potato, asparagus spears, Caesar salad followed by blueberry cheesecake with raspberry sauce while you sit there nursing your glass of Solvent...sorry, I meant Soylent... through three or four courses, huh? Better be an exceptional conversationalist or have a book of Sudoku puzzles handy!
See ya, eh!
Bob
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