Yes. It is the most important thing. Your body runs on calories. If you don’t consume any calories you die. Much faster than you will acquire diabetes or go down due to a vitamin deficiency.
You might notice that I called out both as negatives.
I can’t tell because your link is borked. I compared liquid ensure with liquid soylent 2.0. Because that’s a one to one comparison. Tossing in the dry powder is cheating. Because powdered versions are always cheaper. Less ship weight and cost of water. Powdered Ensure exists. And in regards to sugar content versions for diabetics with low or no sugar.
You’re also deliberately ignoring my conclusion. Even commonly used, tested, doctor recommended meal replacement liquids are not considered healthy or safe as a major portion of your diet for long periods of time.
There isn’t anything special about Ensure that makes it for disgusting olds and devious sick people. Its based on the same concept as Soylent, but made by people who actually know what they’re doing. If it was bad or insufficient for regular healthy people it would be even worse for the infirm. More over the stuff is used in all sorts of situations. Its common in post surgical care regardless of age (usually due to nausea). And the US military issue it to troops to up their calorie count. An acquaintance of mine experience a lot of weight loss while stationed in Iraq. Nothing wrong with the 19 year old soldier. The ~3500+ calories a day from regular field rations simply wasn’t enough for him to maintain a healthy weight given the level of physical work involved. Extra rations including a 6 pack of ensure a day fixed that.
He was rather specifically talking about those vitamins and minerals. Its fairly simple to “prove some one wrong” when you don’t even address the claim they’ve made.
