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Sometimes eating and obsessing about food gets me to to the point where I just wish I could have a simple thing that I could just throw in my purse and never have to worry about again. Obviously, The Last Angry Young Man feels the same way:
“Imagine going to the grocery store only once every 6 months. Imagine paying less than a dollar per meal. Imagine never washing dishes, chopping vegetables or setting the table ever again. It sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?”
“But can a human subsist on a constant diet of pelletized, nutritionally complete food like puppies and monkeys do? For the good of human kind, I’m about to find out. On June 3, 2006, I began my week of eating nothing but monkey chow: ‘a complete and balanced diet for the nutrition of primates, including the great apes.'”
He is logging his endeavor at The Monkey Chow Diaries.
The American Council on Science and Health noticed his experiment and have logged their opinions on his diet. They agree that the monkey chow is complete nutrition for humans and suspect that he will lose weight on the diet because the food is monotonous and unpalatable.
It’s interesting to watch his reaction to eating the food for the first time and even more interesting to hear his simple resignation the second day. He is saving about $600 a month by eating monkey chow instead of restaurant and home-cooked food. I’m excited to see what this experiment brings.
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June 6th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Well that would make me want to eat less but then I’d binge. Monkeys in the wild don’t live on monkey chow 🙂
June 6th, 2006 at 11:46 pm
The guy’s got a lot of courage. I see two outcomes for him: either he’ll lose a whole lot of weight or it’ll all end in an enourmous binge on fast food. He must go through hell each time he gets a whiff of somebody else’s food!!
June 7th, 2006 at 6:55 am
It will save money, I am a foodie and spend money on food rather then clothing. I have a friend who eats potato chips and white bread so she can buy an outfit or a pair of shoes. She is not as body or food obsessed as I am. I would spend my rent money on food. She does not freak out about exercise like i do. Sometimes I envy her. She eats what she wants and doesn’t feel guilty. We both are carrying the same extra 10lbs.+ Mine may be more solid. So what…
I would binge. (Obviously food/exercise obssessed). If I could live on one food I would have done it by now.
We are a food obssessed society – you see people eating in the most inappriate places.
I am no different but at least I like healthy food.