Talk:Meal replacement

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Adding new sections and content

Hello,

I'm thinking of adding new paragraphs to the meal replacement page about the effectiveness of the diet and its application to other health-related illnesses.

Effectiveness

Weight Loss

There is evidence that the meal replacement diet have been shown to be effective on incurring weight loss and treating obesity. It has been found that the meal replacement diet is effective at lowering body weight, fat mass, and the amount of LDL cholesterol particles in obese individuals. Effects on weight loss can be seen within 12 weeks or 3 months for the short term. For the long term, meal replacement programs can maintain weight loss in overweight and obese individuals for 12 months but gradual weight gain can occur over the next 3 years, following up. The management and effectiveness of weight loss by meal replacement is dependent on the motivation and food environment that an individual is surrounded by.

A 2002 systematic review of randomized controlled studies that compared weight management using meal replacement strategies to reduced calorie diets found that subjects that used meal replacement strategies lost a significant amount of weight during the studies. The overweight and obese subjects were divided into two groups: the partial meal replacement program and the reduced calorie diet. Overweight and obese subjects that were put on a partial meal replacement program had greater significant weight loss than subjects that were put on a reduced calorie diet although both groups had significant weight loss. There was no significant difference in attrition rate between those in the partial meal replacement program or those on the reduced calorie diet at the 3 month mark for the studies. However, there was a greater attrition rate for the reduced calorie diet group than the partial meal replacement group at the 1 year mark.

Effects on Other Health-Related Illnesses

Meal replacements can be used to treat diabetes by maintaining weight loss. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), meal replacement products can be used once or twice a day, in lieu of regular meals, to maintain weight loss for individuals with diabetes. However, that weight loss can only be maintained as long as the individual keeps up with the meal replacement plan. The effects of meal replacements on weight loss for individuals with mental illness are inconclusive. Studies have shown that participants of varying ages and each afflicted with a different mental illness such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and other mental illnesses were able to lose weight through a program of meal replacement shakes. However, the weight loss results only applied to a small minority of the participants that were able to follow study parameters and procedures. There was a high attrition rate with the vast majority of participants dropping out of the study due to either personal or psychiatric reasons or unwillingness to comply with the parameters of the study.

REFLIST 1. Allison, D B; Gadbury, G; Schwartz, L G; Murugesan, R; Kraker, J L; Heshka, S; Fontaine, K R; Heymsfield, S B (2003/04). "A novel soy-based meal replacement formula for weight loss among obese individuals: a randomized controlled clinical trial". European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 57 (4): 514–522. doi:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601587. ISSN 1476-5640. Check date values in: |date= (help)

2. Lowe, Michael R; Butryn, Meghan L; Zhang, Fengqing (2018-01-01). "Evaluation of meal replacements and a home food environment intervention for long-term weight loss: a randomized controlled trial". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 107 (1): 12–19. doi:10.1093/ajcn/nqx005. ISSN 0002-9165.

3. Heymsfield, S B; Mierlo, C A J van; Knaap, H C M van der; Heo, M; Frier, H I (2003/05). "Weight management using a meal replacement strategy: meta and pooling analysis from six studies". International Journal of Obesity. 27 (5): 537–549. doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802258. ISSN 1476-5497. Check date values in: |date= (help)

4. Craig, Jacqueline. "Meal replacement shakes and nutrition bars: do they help individuals with diabetes lose weight?" Diabetes Spectrum, Summer 2013, p. 179+. Health Reference Center Academic, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A343364238/HRCA?u=nysl_sc_cornl&sid=HRCA&xid=c0678891. Accessed 15 Mar. 2018.

5. "Meal replacements as a weight loss tool in a population with severe mental illness". Eating Behaviors. 19: 61–64. 2015-12-01. doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2015.06.009. ISSN 1471-0153.

Shujins (talk) 15:58, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

References

Thank you @Shujins:, I integrated these infos cleaned up and summarized according to WP:MEDRS --Signimu (talk) 23:33, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

New Sections for the article

I have written 3 new paragraphs for meal replacement that can be added. Here is my link to my sandbox for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shujins/sandbox --Shujins Some Feedback would be appreciated. (talk) 02:10, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Some history references

These could be of use in this article.

• Before Soylent: a brief history of food replacements
• A Brief History of Meal Replacements
• Metrecal, the chalky 60s meal replacement shake that started an unfortunate trend

2601:142:8201:5020:B47F:7E28:E0A3:A5E3 (talk) 21:08, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

It's unfortunate that the most interesting source is from a blog of a commercial meal replacement diet... I add it in the external links section, as I hope it's possible to find an academic source relating similar infos, but with a quick search I did not find any unfortunately. --Signimu (talk) 23:39, 20 October 2019 (UTC)