Should We Eat The Sunlight?

• Li Ka Shing

  19 Sep 05, 00:17

  Hi,
  
  Have u ever thought of eating the sunlight?
  
  If this is possible, do u think it will be beneficial or not?
  
  Thank you for ur insights.
• DriftingGuy

  19 Sep 05, 00:21

  
  I do it every morning, before i go off.
  
  In the mean time, I take pleasure in consuming sound, air as well as numerous physically and common-sense-tells-u impossible to consume things.
• the.raven

  19 Sep 05, 04:47

  Originally posted by Li Ka Shing:

  Hi,
  
  Have u ever thought of eating the sunlight?
  
  If this is possible, do u think it will be beneficial or not?
  
  Thank you for ur insights.

  
• Mr Fugue

  19 Sep 05, 09:49

  Originally posted by Li Ka Shing:

  If this is possible, do u think it will be beneficial or not?

  your skin ''eats'' sunlight when you sun-tan and it gives your body vitamin D.
• BabyLover

  19 Sep 05, 09:55

  Originally posted by the.raven:

  

  
• kaobeikaobu

  19 Sep 05, 09:57

  coool...
• Othello_Red

  19 Sep 05, 09:57

  eat sunlight for nutritional needs? quite impossible really.
• XsIcSiCsIcX

  19 Sep 05, 09:58

  here's a tip:
  
  every afternoon 12pm go to an open field where sunlight's strongest, take your top off, and open your mouth facing up wide open. Your throat will automatically grow some food due to some hidden chlorophyll.
  
  
• sgboy2004

  19 Sep 05, 09:58

  croco is green color = got chlorophyll, means mi can make food with sunlight, water and air
  
  tat's wat mi learn for o level, and mi o level nia
• Mr Fugue

  19 Sep 05, 10:01

  Originally posted by Othello_Red:

  eat sunlight for nutritional needs? quite impossible really.

  you also think I'm crapping??
  
  http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca/babies/VitaminD.htm
  
  

  Vitamin D comes from different sources:
  
  Foods: In Canada, cow’s milk and margarine are fortified with vitamin D, which means it’s added to them during production. Some foods—like salmon, tuna, liver and kidney—are good sources of vitamin D.
  
  Sunlight: Vitamin D is formed naturally when skin is exposed to sunlight. But because Canada is located so far north, sunlight isnÂ’t enough at certain times of the year and in certain places. Sunscreen and clothing, which protect babies from the harmful effects of the sun, wonÂ’t allow vitamin D to be formed.

• coffeeortea

  19 Sep 05, 10:01

  standing under sunlight for 3 hours is equivalent to consuming 17.56678223 calories.
• revvieeee

  19 Sep 05, 11:30

  Originally posted by Li Ka Shing:

  Hi,
  
  Have u ever thought of eating the sunlight?
  
  If this is possible, do u think it will be beneficial or not?
  
  Thank you for ur insights.

  slowly.. dont choke on it..
• Li Ka Shing

  20 Sep 05, 02:03

  Hi,
  
  Thanks everyone for ur insights......
  
  I was just thinking, what they thought me in school.
  
  Sun has sunlight. Plants have 'factory' and can make own food from this sunlight. Herbivores eat the plants. Then carnivores eat the herbivores. Then high-level carnivores eat the carnivores (n herbivores too).
  
  OK.
  
  Look at this chain for a moment. So inefficient, won't u say?
  
  A high-level carnivore would need to eat and get his energy with a long chain.
  
  He needs the energy, yet the energy has travelled and lost significantly along the chain.
  
  As school thought me, when a creature eats, not everything is spent for growth. Some energy is spent for heat and other needs. So when a high-level carnivore eats, actually there are lots of wasted energy along the way.
  
  OK let's say we are a high-level carnivore. Or whatever. Omnivore. Peak of the food chain.
  
  When u want to eat a chicken, u have to raise a chicken and feed it with grains. U need to open up a farm.
  
  Research says, that same farm u open can supply more energy to u if u eat all the grains instead of giving some of the grains to feed some chickens and then eat the chickens.
  
  OK. So there is waste here.
  
  Let's call this 'inefficiency #1'.
  
  Now comes 'inefficiency #2' :
  
  After we eat, we need to poop.
  
  Let's think about this for a moment.
  
  Doesn't that mean the energy we are getting comes from inefficient source? If not, we don't need to poop, do we? Has anyone ever thought of why we are pooping? Poop is waste. That means the actual physical food we eat is inefficient, is it not?
  
  It's like, ok I eat this chicken to get energy, and I eat it, and then I poop the chicken out.
  
  That means the chicken is only a vessel carrying the energy. Is it not?
  
  Same like the chicken who poops after eating grains. He eat the grain, get the energy, and poop the grain out.
  
  Even if we are vegetarians and we eat the grains directly, we save some lost energy from the chain, but not from the plant heat. And we poop still.
  
  So, think about it, even if we eat the grains directly, there is still waste.
  
  So.....why not we eat the sunlight?
  
  Thanks everyone for ur time. Glad to hear ur insights.