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> You could almost certainly live indefinitely on Boost or Ensure, because they are essentially flavored versions of the same products used medically in tube fe
by hcarvalhoalves 13y ago
> You could almost certainly live indefinitely on Boost or Ensure, because they are essentially flavored versions of the same products used medically in tube feeds.
I'm not sure you can claim that. Patients live off enteral diets for long periods but in very controlled environments, and even then it's still hard to get right. For a fully functional person, going to work, going to gym, being exposed to environmental stresses, and so on, to only live off Ensure might not be feasible.
- Maxious 13y ago"Metrecal and other similar products were pulled off shelves after the United States government connected 59 deaths to liquid protein products"
- mtdewcmu 13y agoI'm sure the problem with liquid protein is that they're concocted for weight lifters, but over-zealous dieters use them as a substitute for food.
- mtdewcmu 13y agoCertainly no doctor or nutritionist would advise it for a healthy person. If it's not safe to live off of carefully formulated enteral diets, then you would definitely not want to try it with Soylent. Still, people have survived poor diets and near-starvation throughout history. If the body was that fussy about nutrition, we'd be extinct.