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slipframe | 4 years ago

Because anybody with sense prefers eating food to popping pills.

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Smaug123|4 years ago

This is an instance of the orthogonality thesis, by the way. Your assertion is that "increased ability to think" should cause "increased desire to eat Traditional Food (tm)", which is no more true than the assertion "increased ability to think causes increased desire to consume Renaissance art". Desires are, by and large, orthogonal to the generalised ability to achieve desires (the ability which you label "sense"). Some desires are not orthogonal - the desire to survive and be healthy, for example, which is instrumental in achieving many other desires - but to argue your assertion on those grounds, you must prove that Traditional Food is sufficiently dramatically better for achieving some instrumental goal.

krastanov|4 years ago

Come on, this is a bit too aggressive of a statement. On the other hand, there is some anecdotal evidence that nutrients in pills are not absorbed by our gut as well as more "naturally" delivered nutrients.

dghughes|4 years ago

I wouldnt say anecdotal nutrient bioavailavilty is quite well-known and studied.

slipframe|4 years ago

"Why do we need to drink water anyway? Why can't we all get our fluids from an IV?"