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Meet the man who claims he doesn't need food

It may seem a little hard to digest, but a man who hasn't eaten three solid meals a day in months claims he has stumbled upon the secret to good health — and it doesn't involve calorie counting and exercise. But Rob Rhinehart isn't on a fad diet or starving himself in a bid to lose weight. He simply wanted to revolutionize his life when he created what he says is a formula which gives his body the exact amount of vitamins and minerals it needs to survive. Spurned on by a poor diet and lack of time to shop and prepare food, the 24-year-old began researching what his body needed, down to the biochemical level, and made Soylent — a drink mixture of vitamins and minerals which includes calcium, potassium, zinc, vitamins A, B, C, D, E and K. "I was really tired of eating poorly and wondered why it had to be difficult to obtain healthy food," he said. "I started seeing food on a biochemical level and developed a new form that is much more efficient and scalable by including only the necessar...

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