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    > My first thought whenever I see soylent is that we have
    > studies proving that we can't replace breast milk with
    > baby formula

I was under the impression that there are many women who - for various reasons - can't breast feed. Are there any credible studies showing their infants have worse health outcomes?

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A ton of research has been put into this. No matter how much formula companies try to spin it, the results are very clear: infact formula is very suboptimal:

impact on future health http://jn.nutrition.org/content/138/9/1782S.full

impact on allergies http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12839115

Now, what does this have to do with Soylent and adult nutrition? Not much.

It's still a commonly held belief but a recent study concluded there may be no difference at all:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/02/27/breast_feedi...

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