Excluding water, and no funny artificially created super puree, what is the minimum number of whole foods you could live on?
Not talking about quantity.
Not talking about quantity.
What do you reckon is the minimum number of whole foods you could live on?
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sport 10,904 posts
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Psychotext 49,221 posts
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Registered 7 years agoWhat's a whole food?This post is sponsored by Apple and the iPhone 4S. Think different.
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cianchristopher 6,360 posts
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sport 10,904 posts
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Registered 8 years agoPsychotext wrote:
Sorry, bad choice of words. Lets say natural foods instead. So, if bananas and tuna provided everything your body needs, you could live off just them and be healthy.
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billythekid 10,263 posts
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Registered 8 years agoYou could live on a whole elephant for quite a while. -
MetalDog 23,448 posts
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Registered 11 years agoAh, living and living and being healthy makes quite a difference.
Umm...
Milk
Mackerel
Oats
Something dark green and leafy
Limes
Would that do it, or would you get rickets or something?-- boobs do nothing for me, I want moustaches and chest hair.
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Psychotext 49,221 posts
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Registered 7 years agoHmm... I'd say probably 6 then.
Chicken
Chillies
Milk
Spinach
Tomatoes
Wild Rice
More for the minimum variety (for me).
Edited by Psychotext at 14:43:39 16-02-2012This post is sponsored by Apple and the iPhone 4S. Think different.
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sport 10,904 posts
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Registered 8 years agobillythekid wrote:
Actually that's a good point, don't the Inuits live on nothing but seal blubber?
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mrharvest 5,049 posts
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Registered 10 years agoI'd say 4:
quinoa
chickpeas or salmon
pumpkin or carrots
iodised salt
I think that should cover everything in the RDI. Don't sue me if you die... -
kalel 76,470 posts
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Registered 10 years agoYou need to define live on. I reckon you could go for a few long time eating just one.
In fact, giving the rate my kid grows on just milk, I'm starting to wonder if that would work for adults. He has all the same organs that I do... -
cianchristopher 6,360 posts
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Registered 4 years agoFacepalm wrote:
Yeah, but he does have a gamerscore of around 150,000 though. So that's kinda cool!
Ask Zomoniac.
He has scales on his desk at work as well as in his kitchen, everything gets weighed, counted and analysed, down to the last milligram of sodium.
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mrpon 24,096 posts
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Registered 6 years agoAre you wanting a scientific answer or personal? If it's the latter, I guess I could live on baked beans.
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MetalDog 23,448 posts
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Registered 11 years agoYou do see programmes about people who've been living on toast, burnt sausages and coke for fifteen years, so it's clearly possible to exist on a vastly inappropriate diet for a hell of a long time.
You probably feel like shit though.-- boobs do nothing for me, I want moustaches and chest hair.
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sport 10,904 posts
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Registered 8 years agokalel wrote:
Let's say you'll lead the same lifestyle you lead currently. You want these minimum ingredients to last your whole life. Forget taste and the number of calories etc.
You need to define live on. I reckon you could go for a few long time eating just one.
In fact, giving the rate my kid grows on just milk, I'm starting to wonder if that would work for adults. He has all the same organs that I do... -
MightyMetalMonkey 599 posts
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Registered 5 years agoUm, how natural a food are do-nuts ? -
MetalDog 23,448 posts
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Registered 11 years agoHumans are omnivores, you pillock!
@edit
I was aiming for carbs and a different type of fibre with the oats, but I might be mistaken on those.
Edited by MetalDog at 14:49:09 16-02-2012-- boobs do nothing for me, I want moustaches and chest hair.
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sport 10,904 posts
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Registered 8 years agoMetalDog wrote:
Yeah, you could stay in bed all day, not have any energy, but we still want that.
You do see programmes about people who've been living on toast, burnt sausages and coke for fifteen years, so it's clearly possible to exist on a vastly inappropriate diet for a hell of a long time.
You probably feel like shit though.
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MetalDog 23,448 posts
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For my mental health, if I could only eat a limited number of ingredients for the rest of my natural, I'd probably opt for lamb tikka with salad =)
I might not live as long on that, but fuck it. Lamb tikka is awesome.-- boobs do nothing for me, I want moustaches and chest hair.
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megastar 16,919 posts
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..unless you have abducted someone and are keeping them in your basement and because of the recent economic climate you are trying to keep the costs of keeping them alive down?
Hmmmm pointless discussion I guess unless
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sport 10,904 posts
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:-D ...and I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!sport wrote:
..unless you have abducted someone and are keeping them in your basement and because of the recent economic climate you are trying to keep the costs of keeping them alive down?
Hmmmm pointless discussion I guess unless
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cianchristopher 6,360 posts
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megastar 16,919 posts
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Registered 8 years agoyou could but you'd probably need to wear goggles! -
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Registered 11 years agoEurogamer:
From nutrition to abduction and elephants vaginas in less than 30 posts or your money back.-- boobs do nothing for me, I want moustaches and chest hair.
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sport 10,904 posts
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Registered 8 years agoInteresting read: http://discovermagazine.com/2004/oct/inuit-paradox
What the diet of the Far North illustrates, says Harold Draper, a biochemist and expert in Eskimo nutrition, is that there are no essential foods—only essential nutrients. And humans can get those nutrients from diverse and eye-opening sources.
One might, for instance, imagine gross vitamin deficiencies arising from a diet with scarcely any fruits and vegetables. What furnishes vitamin A, vital for eyes and bones? We derive much of ours from colorful plant foods, constructing it from pigmented plant precursors called carotenoids (as in carrots). But vitamin A, which is oil soluble, is also plentiful in the oils of cold-water fishes and sea mammals, as well as in the animals’ livers, where fat is processed. -
Soylent Green is all you need.
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