How can an 80 year old woman gain weight?
Asked by patriciablmr on May 09, 2009
in Health Conditions
My aunt is 80 years old and the doctor told her she needs to gain weight. What is the healthiest way to do that?
Answer
The healthiest way to gain weight is to eat 500 extra calories a day of nutritious food. The easiest way to gain weight is to drink nutritional supplements, like Ensure, at meals and/or in-between. The goal would be two cans a day and your aunt would decide when to drink it. She should also have high calorie foods that are not difficult to eat, such as foods prepared with butter, mayonnaise and sauces, hot cereal madewith whole milk and raisins, scrambled eggs, baked potato with butter, ice cream, etc. Ask the doctor if your aunt have any other therapeutic diet prescriptions to consider.
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