Nutrition & Feeding

Boost Review: What to Know Before You Buy

Posted by Brianna Maguire on Wed Jun 18 2025

As a caregiver, ensuring your loved one receives adequate nutrition can be a challenge, especially when dealing with specific health conditions. Boost offers a range of nutritional drinks and shakes designed to help meet these unique dietary needs. Whether your loved one requires extra calories, has difficulty swallowing, or needs blood sugar management, Boost provides specialized options like high-calorie beverages, juice-type drinks, and glucose control formulas. Read More

How to Stop Weight Loss in Diabetes

Posted by Chad Birt on Thu Jun 19 2025

Everyone’s body weight fluctuates from time to time. But if you start shedding more and more pounds, you might have an underlying health problem, like diabetes. Read More

Enteral Feeding at Home

Posted by Chad Birt on Mon Jul 26 2021

Caring for a loved one who’s unable to chew or swallow their food often requires enteral feeding at home. While administering meals and snacks through a feeding tube might seem daunting, with patience and practice, it’s possible, even if you don’t have a medical background. Read More

Medical Diets 101

Posted by Adria Thompson on Fri Mar 04 2022

We often associate the word “diet” with restrictions on what you can and cannot eat with the goal of losing weight, but that’s not always the case! In the medical world, diets are just recommendations for certain food items that can be part of a treatment plan for a medical condition with the intent of decreasing negative symptoms. Read More