Which helps people gain weight faster: Ensure Plus or food?
Asked by 441855832 on Nov 08, 2008
in Nutrition
Why does Ensure Plus help people to gain weight? Is it just because it's loaded with calories or is it because it has some special formula in it? Would eating the same amount of calories from food have the same effect on the weight as drinking a can of Ensure Plus? Which one cause faster weight gain if they have the same calories?
Answer
An equivalent number of calories from either Ensure Plus or whole food would produce the same amount of weight gain. Ensure Plus does not have a magic ingredient, but it does have a healthy blend of balanced nutrients that you would not get in a randomly chosen snack. And since it is easier to open a can than to cook a meal, it makes the chore of gaining weight easier. Note, however, than Ensure Plus is a low fiber food and so choose high-fiber foods at meals. High-fiber foods that are also high in calories include dried fruit, nuts and seeds.
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