Sunday Showdown Soylent vs. Cheerios. While there are many quick breakfastsbuttered toast, granola bar, bananacereal reigns supreme. But a new contender has climbed the ranks Soylent, the nutrient slurry marketed to busy Millennials. Both are convenient, but neither is very natural. Which is a better option on a rushed morning The Contenders. A bowl of Cheerios Normcore cereal. Processed oats fortified with 1. Made for little hands. Yahoo Lifestyle is your source for style, beauty, and wellness, including health, inspiring stories, and the latest fashion trends. Cheerios are the default cereal, the most popular brand, an all American choice. A bottle of Soylent Slim. Fast for nerds. Soy milk fortified with 2. Soylent is the best in class meal replacement product, and its marketing flaunts its science experiment vibe. Cheerios As Real as Fake Food Gets. Cheerios feel like an old American standby, in that Normal Rockwell way. Like most old American standbys, they were invented around World War II. The original variety came out in 1. Honey Nut Cheerios the most popular variety, thanks to 9 grams of sugar in 1. Cheerios feel natural because youve eaten them since childhood, but you know they have less sugar than pretty much everything but corn flakes and wonky adult cereals. General Mills pushes the health food narrative, claiming Cheerios reduces cholesterol, which got it in trouble with the FDA in 2. Plain Cheerios are made of whole grains, low in sugar and free of GMOs, a relatively healthy option among cereals. Bu theyre still a processed starch, with vitamins added. Food writer Michael Pollan says, Few, if any, health savvy breakfast eating people would make Cheerios a frequent choice. Plans to eat healthy can fly out the window when you step into a grocery store. Maybe you add junkRead more Read. Still, its not terrible for you, and its extremely convenient The only prep work is throwing it into a bowl along with some milk. Eating time is pretty quick, but you do need to remain stationary. And including the milk, it costs under 5. Soylent Convenience at a Cost. The name, packaging, and origin story of Soylent seem calculated to embarrass you for drinking this generic food replacement in public. Which is a shame, because public consumption is the best thing this drink has going for it. While Soylent is marketed as a supplement to a diet of actual food, its calculated such that it could, theoretically, replace all your meals. Each bottle contains one fifth of all your daily required nutrients. While it makes for an inadequate and depressing dinner, its well suited to breakfast, especially on the go. Its about the size of a water bottle, and just as easy to drink during your commute. Dear Lifehacker,I have a coworker who swears by Shakeologys meal replacement shakes. I was shocked Read more Read. The taste is pretty great, so long as youre cool with soy milk. Thats basically what this is, in its chemical way. Its not organic, it has as much sugar as Honey Nut Cheerios, and it contains GMOs and natural and artificial flavors. So even measured against processed grains stuffed with vitamins, this isnt hippie food. The five other flavor varieties have the same sugar content, and three include caffeine. Most importantly, you pay quite a lot for that convenience 2. Its still cheaper than most store bought breakfasts, but if you have the time to eat at home, Soylent is a pretty hefty choice. Verdict Cheerios for Your Good Days, Soylent for Your Bad Days. Unless youve optimized your life to the second, Soylent just isnt worth the five minutes you save by not eating a bowl of cereal, especially if youre already spending some time with coffee or tea each morning. But on those occasional mornings youre really running behind, its nice to grab a bottle and head out the door, knowing you wont pass out before lunchtime. The shame associated with drinking out of that science lab bottle will feel like your punishment for failing to make time for a proper breakfast. As Cookie Monster sang, Soylent is a sometimes food. The Sunday Blues Are All in Your Head. Sage receptionists and break room philosophers have long taught that every day has its own emotion. Your week progresses from a case of the Mondays through Wednesday Hump Days to Thank God Its Fridays, looping around to the Sunday Blues, also known as the Sunday Scaries or the Sunday Sads. You survive that weekend anticlimax because you know everybody deals with it. Except some of them dont. The Sunday Blues are a cultural given sites like Bustle, Buzz. Feed, The Muse, Real Simple, Huff. Post, the New York Times, and even Lifehacker have all written about how to fight them. I asked Dr. Ali Mattu, clinical psychologist and host of The Psych Show on You. Tube, about the science behind the phenomenon. It turns out, there isnt much. Dr. Mattu points to a telephone survey with 3. This study found no significant difference between peoples average Saturday moods and Sunday moods. While earlier studies found evidence for Sunday Blues, this studys authors blamed those results on small samples mostly composed of college students. This is also just a tough area to study, says Dr. Mattu. All of these conclusions depend on how you ask people about their emotions. Were horribly inaccurate when it comes to remembering how we felt in the past and predicting how were going to feel in the future. He points to another study indicating that people adjust their memories of daily moods according to stereotypes like blue Monday or TGIF. Of course, none of this means that you cant feel sad on a Sunday, even for all the reasons cited around the internet hangovers, FOMO, weekend disappointment, dread of a new work week. The Sunday Blues are real for those who experience it, but theyre not inevitable. So go ahead and try to beat them.
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