Even if you are still enjoying regular meals, it may not be such a bad idea to take in the occasional Boost drink or Ensure drink, especially if you are still very physically active. It isn’t just for people that have low appetites. It may be for seniors with higher caloric needs than their more sedentary counterparts. As a small person, I know that it is sometimes simply difficult to eat enough mass to take in enough nutrients. That’s where densely nutritious foods and supplements can really come in handy.

You know what drinks like Ensure Plus and Boost Drink are? They are nothing more than those slimming milkshakes with more calories and nutrients in them. They’re energy drinks, which are all the rage among the youth culture. Except that those energy drinks are pretty gross soft drinks. These things will actually stick to your ribs and give you something to work with. They aren’t just sugar that will burn away in an hour. They taste pretty good too, if you are used to energy drinks for athletes. It’s the same technology. Why not take advantage of it?

There is an interesting phenomenon surrounding nutritional drinks. Many people who turn their nose up at an Ensure drink will declare that an athletic drink is nectar from the gods. I’ve tried both, and I can tell you that they taste the same. The only difference is that the nutritional additives are a little different as the body of an athlete has different needs from the bodies of most elders. So why not think of it like that? The next time you go to the cabinet for your Ensure Plus, don’t look at it as simply an “old person’s drink.” Look at it as the nectar for the body that it truly is. This is futuristic stuff – a dense, nutrient-packed wonder.