Would it be possible to just take a handful of multivitamins and nutritional supplements daily instead of eating food all the time?
Absolutely not. Nutritional supplements contain micronutrients, but your body needs macronutrients: carbohydrates, fat, and protein. That’s where you get the calories that you need for all your bodily functions. If you only took supplements, you’d starve.
No we are designed to eat food the way we currently do. In fact when you are deficient in something, the first thing you should try and do is encorporate foods with that vitamin, not immediately buy supplements. Those should be a last resort since we extract vitamins from food much better
No but if you are interested in this subject you can think about it medically. When someone is not physically able to eat… how do we get them to eat? Well you don’t actually put food in their mouth etc… you can use intravenous nutrition to provide dextrose, amino acids, etc. I’m not a nurse or doctor or anything like that just a bio major but you can look all this stuff up online
You can’t copy nature that easily. Besides macro- and micro-nutrients there are also thousands of other beneficial plant compounds and enzymes which positive health effects. Each plant has different beneficial plant compounds, which effects and synergies are far from being fully researched.
Supplements are called supplements because they are designed to… supplement. It’s possible to consume pills and powders that contain the necessary nutrition (micronutrients and macronutrients) but that would be wildly inefficient.
No. Our brain and our digestion functions would slowly shut down all of the other body systems that keep us alive. Interesting question. Something must be in the water or air. More and more people are not wanting to eat. What’s up with that?
Products like Huel claim to be a replacement for normal food and “nutritionally complete”. But when I did some research into Huel (because I eat it as a meal replacement sometimes), it turns out no one actually knows what nutritionally complete even is.
We eat a varied diet to ensure we get all the nutrients we need.