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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Can't address the DD who wants to lose weight (although it sounds like a bad idea, and [b]drinking "food" is generally unhelpful)[/b]. However, why is your teen who is trying to gain weight eating an egg white? He should be eating whole eggs at a minimum, and even then it's not very calorie dense. He needs things like peanut butter, cheese, avocados, granoloa with nuts and whole milk. I know because my kids have to eat these per the ped and nutritionist. And always liquids after solids--eat first, drink after.[/quote]

I used to think like you, that nutrition had to be 'chewed' in order to be healthy.  You're wrong.  It's what's in the stuff that's important.  One of my kids has SN and it took me longer than it should have to accept, even though I was working with professionals, to recognize that good nutrition didn't require chewing.  My kid won't 'chew' in the morning but he absolutely will drink.  He get's a high protein Boost drink every morning.  The rest of us have grabbed on every now and then because it's convenient and healthy.  My 100 year old grandmother has also done a lot better since she started including them.  [/quote]

Yes it's better for someone who would not eat at all, but [b]chewing your food is healthier for a healthy human with no underlying issues[/b].[/quote]

What is your source for that information?  Sounds like it's something your grandma told you.  :roll: [/quote]

Try an expert, or lacking that ability, Google.  [/quote]

Ah, so you don't know and you have no evidence.  Our nutritionists and medical experts have said liquid nutrition is perfectly acceptable.  [/quote]

Perfectly acceptable is not the same as ideal or healthiest, which is what the original poster claimed.

I'm fine with parents giving a Pediasure or Boost to their kids, or kids having smoothies, or whatever. There are kids who survive on nothing but liquid nutrition, and many have G-tubes or other bypass routes, so they would not be chewing anyway. But it's also true that digestion and some immune system processes start in the mouth with chewing, which stimulates and incorporates multiple salivary enzymes. You can bypass that step, but it's there for a reason, and it helps digestion.

https://sciencing.com/names-enzymes-mouth-esophagus-17242.html

Do you have to chew everything? No. Is there benefit to chewing your food, and everything that comes with that? Yes.[/quote]

I'm sorry, I can't seem to find where anyone said liquid nutrition was 'ideal' or 'healthiest'.  Can you point out where that is?

And, I'm wondering if you even read the article you linked to - or did you just do a google search, not find your compelling evidence and hope no one read this?  While the article describes which enzymes are involved in digestion, there's nothing in it that provides a compelling, or even modest, case for avoiding liquid nutrition.  Even Weight Watchers doesn't advise against it. [/quote]

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