Protein
Provides the amino acid building blocks that are essential for muscle growth and repair.2,3
Ensure provides complete, balanced nutrition to support muscle mass and strength, and contains:1
Did you know that you have more than 600 muscles in your body? These muscles get you out of bed in the morning and keep you moving throughout the day.
Ensure provides complete, balanced nutrition to support muscle mass and strength, and contains:1
Important for preserving muscle strength and supporting normal muscle function.4–6
Skeletal muscle accounts for 40% of total body weight,8 and plays an important role in strength, movement and balance. Muscle mass and strength peaks around the age of 25 years, and gradually decreases as you get older.9–11 Between the ages of 40 and 70 years, we lose as much as 8% of our muscle mass every decade.9 It is important to take care of your muscles at any age.
Maintaining healthy and strong muscles can help:
To improve balance and coordination, reducing the risk of falls
Maintain mobility and independence
Keep joints in good shape
Improve energy levels
Support the immune system
Loss of muscle mass, strength and function have been associated with poor health outcomes including increased falls and fractures.12
Exercises that involve the use of your bodyweight (or other equipment) to resist the contraction of your muscles are called resistance exercises. These exercises are the most effective way of improving muscle mass and strength when combined with good nutrition.13,14
Here are 2 simple daily exercises you can try at home:
Stand in front of a chair with your feet hip-width apart. Slowly lower yourself down to a seated position, and then stand back up again.
Stand in front of a bench or step. Place one foot on the bench and step up, bringing your other foot up to meet it. Then step down and repeat.
Maintain muscle strength and support bone health
Maintain muscle strength and bone health without flavour
High protein and CaHMB to support muscle strength and recovery.15–18
High calorie, protein dense to help gain and maintain healthy weight19
Strength and energy for malnutrition risk, surgery, injury or illness recovery.20
Food for Special Medical Purposes. Use only under medical supervision.
*After the age of 40 years, lean body mass decreases at a rate of approximately 8% per decade.1
References: 1. Ensure® Product label. 2. Harvard School of Public Health. The Nutrition Source – Protein. Available at: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/protein/ Accessed: April 2023. 3. Nutrient reference values for Australia and New Zealand (Protein). Available at: Available at: https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/nutrient-reference-values/nutrients/protein Accessed: April 2023. 4. Wagatsuma A and Sakuma K. Biomed Res Int. 2014;2014:121254. 5. Harvard School of Public Health. The Nutrition Source – Vitamin D. Available at: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/vitamin-d/ Accessed: April 2023. 6. Nutrient reference values for Australia and New Zealand (Vitamin D). Available at: https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/nutrient-reference-values/nutrients/vitamin-d Accessed: April 2023. 7. The Nutrition Source – Calcium. Available at: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium/ Accessed: April 2023. 8. Frontera WR and Ochala J. Calcif Tissue Int. 2015;96(3):183–95. 9. Baier S, et al. J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2009;33:71–82. 10. Janssen I, et al. J Appl Physiol, 2000; 89: 81–88. 11. Grimby G, et al. Acta Physiol Scand. 1982; 115: 125–34. 12. Deutz NEP, et al. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2019;20(1):22–27. 13. Deutz NEP, et al. Clin Nutr. 2014;33(6):929-936. 14. Sherrington C, et al. Br J Sports Med. 2017;51:1749–1757. 15. Ensure® Plus Strength Product Label. 16. Deutz NE, et al. Clin Nutr. 2016;35(1):18–26. 17. Ekinci O, et al. Nutr Clin Pract. 2016; 31(6): 829–835. 18. Malafarina V, et al. Maturitas. 2017;101:42–50. 19. Ensure® TwoCal HN Product Label. 20. Ensure® Plus Product Label. 21. Slavin J. Nutrients. 2013;5(4):1417–35. 22. Puertollano MA, et al. Curr Top Med Chem. 2011;11(14):1752–66. 23. Walsh NP. Sports Med 2019;49(Suppl 2):S153-S168. 24. Harvard School of Public health – The Nutrition Source (Zinc). Available at: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/zinc/. Accessed: April 2023. 25. Mayo Clinic Health System – Support your immune function with good nutrition. Available at: https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/support-your-immune-function-with-good-nutrition Accessed: April 2023. 26. Prietl B et al. Nutrients. 2013;5(7):2502–21.
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