eli5: Why can’t you live off of suplements?

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If you’d be able to afford all suplements for all vitamins, carbohydrates, fat, proteins,
phytochemicals and all the rest, why wouldn’t be able to survive like this? I always hear people saying you can’t but I never understood.

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Sure you could, but what would be the point? You can’t live off “a couple of pills” because we can’t get enough energy into that format. If your supplement includes 1/4 of a stick of butter rolled in sugar, you’re closer to maximum energy density. If your supplement contains enough fiber to keep your digestive system operating, it could be tablets and a glass of water, or it could be sticks of celery, there’s not much difference except celery is a lot cheaper.

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