The Need for Protein

There comes a time when an older person just starts to lose weight. It doesn’t really matter what they eat. After ruling out any terrible reason for this weight loss, we had to come up with some ways to increase protein in my husband’s diet. His doctor recommended ensure. So my husband reluctantly tried the vanilla flavor. Unfortunately he also thought that the same ensure was contributing to his other medical condition. He is restricted in eating tomatoes, chocolate, spicy food, citrus, carbonated drinks, coffee, tea, wine…. Just about everything he likes. And it’s still been very difficult to determine the culprits. While visiting with our family in central Virginia last weekend our son recommended that he try Muscle Milk. Our son found that to be the only thing tolerable when his jaw was broken and then wired while having his wisdom teeth removed before he was deployed many years ago. So we picked up a bottle of vanilla flavor muscle milk when we were grocery shopping at Giant. My husband hasn’t tried it yet. I thought maybe he could try it while having breakfast because it can ruin your appetite. In the meantime we were also reminded that peanut butter is also good for this purpose. So he’s been having a bit of peanut butter on some bread in the morning and a bit while we have a late breakfast after our walk. My husband’s appetite is still quite good in spite of the dietary restriction. We are just not used to thinking about any of this and it has changed how we eat. I suppose things could be much worse.