[hcarvalhoalves]

> Food is a waste of time. It is something you do because it has to be done.

To think like this is sickening. Food is one of the few pleasures in life.

PS: Makes me scared you're a MD PhD, but still don't see how absurd the original blog post is, maybe even a hoax.

[guylhem]

You have your views on life and I respect them. You may enjoy spending hours everyday preparing your food, and hours eating it - why not.

But personally, I don't. Just like you, I have my own views, which I enjoy enough to openly share them, in full honesty.

For me food is a nuisance that I want to take as little time as possible (preparation + consumption). I enjoy spending my time on different things.

The original blog post might be questionable (the iron thing - I can't imagine how he might have missed that!) and light on details. It could also be a hoax.

But for the one time I find someone who shares my views, as opposed to the prevalent "food is the most important thing in life - food is sacred - spend all your time on it", I want to know more about his approach, to find mistakes, correct them, and experiment.

Who knows, maybe more people think the same secretly? Maybe some day it will be the most prevalent view on food?

I was somehow expecting some negative replies, but not something just ad hominem like this, and devoid of content. Still, I wanted to share my current approach, in the hope others could find it interesting as a baseline to experiment upon, and also to get their own (hopefully someone else is also trying to optimize the food problem on time + health constraints)

So relax, I'm experimenting my own regimen on myself, and you're free to disagree.

[npsimons]

I think the GP is missing the point here: for many people, food is like bills. You deal with them, but not because you want to, only because you have to. Whether or not the OP is serious, it reminded me much of molecular gastronomy, and approaching food scientifically. While some may look down on this as an exercise in soul-crushing, is it any worse than the mass produced eating material that is fast/convenience food today? At least with this approach, the goal is health, not addictiveness or saleability.

I'm the kind of person who has spent hundreds of dollars on a fine dining experience (and heartily enjoy and recommend it), and has spent countless hours in the kitchen attempting to make good food. Yet, on some days, I'd rather just whip up a soylent shake and be done with it. On some days, I'm not even in any state to care what it tastes or feels like.

[hcarvalhoalves]

First, enjoying food does not imply spending hours cooking food. If you think so, this is one thing your culture taught you wrong. Good food is simple, can be frozen, or even eaten raw. Also, there's no explanation to why one can order chicken wings by phone and have it delivered in 30 minutes but not something healthier other than pure ignorance.

Second, this is a reductionist, naive view of nutrition. There's more to nurturing than swallowing a mix of nutrients. Smell, taste, chewing motion, the brain. If you don't enjoy your food, you don't feel satisfied. If you don't feel satisfied, your organism doesn't work as expected, neither your mood. Food and pleasure are intimately associated, you cannot have a whole human being by reducing the act of eating to an inconvenience.

If you were right, enteral diets (Google what it means) would be completely normal by today.

[mrleinad]

I agree with your point of view. Food is a nuisance, and I'd love this blog post to be true. I just subscribed to the guy's distribution list to get more info.