[nazgulnarsil]

Hey Sol. I was getting into nutrition just slightly before Examine launched, and was completely incredulous that something like Examine.com didn't already exist. As you mention in the post, the incentives in this industry are totally perverse. We're taking an anti-supplement stance with MealSquares partially due to some of the research you've helped collate and rate (we've done a lot of our own too of course :). I've happily watched Examine.com grow and I wanted to say thanks for trying to improve the epistemic standards we have for nutrition. Keep fighting the good fight. P.S. would you venture an opinion on Soylent?

[SoloX5]

Thanks for the kind words, and good luck. We're thankfully at a stage now where we're well cashflow positive so we can just focus on what we do best.

> Soylent

Beyond the link that MDS100 posted, I personally think it's a bit shortsighted. Paring food down into some kind of overly simplistic "consume this" ignores all the social and psychological aspects of eating (not to mention the satiety considerations of chewing something versus drinking it).

As a replacement for food, I think it's foolish. As something to help you get to X macros in a pinch ... well, I'd rather take a protein shake and then mix whatever I was missing into it (need fats? Nuts. Need carbs? Tons of additions)

[nazgulnarsil]

That's exactly how mealsquares started. My prototype is open source at http://lesswrong.com/lw/h2h/soylent_orange_whole_food_open_s...

Speaking of which I've been meaning to update it since I discovered that rice bran is a better option than marmite.

[MDS100]

http://examine.com/blog/soylent-is-made-from-hype/