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Whoever wrote this is using this as a way to project a point of view about G'tmo. This is not appropriate for this article. It should be said it can be used to force feed people and left at that. That way the use is know but the exact use is up to the reader to find out 99.4.106.235 ( talk) 19:11, 20 November 2010 (UTC)Vera Ferguson
Can someone make this page longer? Torax's Rage 00:23, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
other editor (anonymous): it would certainly be nice to see where Ensure lines up compared to products like Huel, Soylent, etc.
How do these products compare in terms of providing something close to a complete nutritional package? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
73.62.167.26 (
talk) 23:17, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
Should there be a direct link to the manufactures website on the disambiguate page? Shouldn't this be a link to the wikipedia article on the product instead? Ochbad ( talk) 05:04, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
According to the manufacturers web site it's a drink AKA a shake. They don't say anything about force feeding being the "intended use". This needs cleaning up. 99.11.160.111 ( talk) 06:48, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
This product is available in both powder and liquid form. The directions on a bottle of Ensure are: Shake well. Serve cold. It does not mention administering.
The powder may be mixed either with milk or water.
Medical and dental professionals may recommend this product following extensive medical or dental procedures to maintain proper nutrition during the patient's recovery.
Respectfully, Tiyang ( talk) 17:16, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
June 12, 2012: Please accept the edits to this Ensure Wikidpedia page by me. My name is Scott Stoffel, and I work at Abbott in Corporate Public Affairs, and the edits I am providing are all factual. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to access my contact information, found here:
http://abbott.com/news-media/contacts.htm — Preceding
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ScottStoffelAbbott (
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contribs) 04:12, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
I saw a link to "Milkshake" in the "See also" section. It looked weird to me, so I removed it, although I added Infant formula, which sounds quite related to the subject of this page.
@ Jytdog: reverted it and said that it's not infant formula. That's correct—Ensure is indeed not infant formula, but it's certainly not quite a milkshake either.
If everybody thinks that infant formula is unrelated, then I guess that the whole "See also" section can be removed, but "Milkshake" definitely seems out of place. -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 11:33, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
User: Weijiasi if you have any questions about my edits, please ask here. For any content that is WP:Biomedical information please use sources that comply with WP:MEDRS. For all other content, please use sources that comply with WP:RS; in general please avoid press releases and blogs. Thanks.
I did a search for good sources about Ensure a month or so ago; hard to find many good refs. The Ohio History site was nice find! Jytdog ( talk) 22:17, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi User:Jytdog. First, let me say, thanks for the edits and appreciate the Wikipedia rule references. Quickly getting me up to speed. I respectfully disagree with your removal of the "available in flavors" for each variant.
you mentioned: "available in" is a) trivia; b) changeable, and impossible to keep updated; c) unanchored in time)"
Also, I think it's best to keep discontinued products in the same lists. There are other products that are discontinued but because I couldn't find references, couldn't label them as such. By separating we are indicating the long list of products are definitely "alive", when that may not be the case
-- Weijiasi ( talk) 21:53, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
--Hi User:Jytdog
Weijiasi ( talk) 16:19, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
Thanks User:Jytdog --- Weijiasi ( talk) 17:09, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus to move. Various ideas about this maybe not being the primarytopic, but no consensus for that or for a new title. ( non-admin closure) Dicklyon ( talk) 03:25, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
Ensure →
Ensure (nutritional supplement) – or
Ensure (meal replacement). This brand-name product seems obscure enough that
Ensure, like
Insure, should redirect to
Insurance. See also the somewhat-related discussion at
Talk:Soylent (food). —
BarrelProof (
talk) 15:31, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
In the sentence below, you added a wikilink pointing to GSK's Boost page section
In the 1990s Ensure and other nutritional drink brands like Sustacal, Boost and Resource were fiercely competing to capture market share among healthy adults...
However, the NY Times article that that information was referenced from was talking about a different Boost. It was referring to Ensure's known competitor, Boost by Nestle (the nutritional supplement drink similar to Ensure)
If you look at your linked GSK section, it says:
GSK's consumer healthcare division... sells oral healthcare...and drinks such as Horlicks, Boost, a chocolate-flavoured malt drink sold in India, and formerly Lucozade and Ribena
That boost is an Indian product. Not the right Boost from Nestle. (This is the problem with similarly named products)
I tried to find the appropriate Wikipedia page for the Boost drink by Nestle but looks like no one has created it yet. Anyway, I removed the wikilink. If you find the right Nestle Boost wikipage, please add back. Or, if you find a wikipage for Sustacal, feel free to add as well. (Which funnily enough, is also made by Nestle)
Cheers
-- Weijiasi ( talk) 18:28, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
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Whoever wrote this is using this as a way to project a point of view about G'tmo. This is not appropriate for this article. It should be said it can be used to force feed people and left at that. That way the use is know but the exact use is up to the reader to find out 99.4.106.235 ( talk) 19:11, 20 November 2010 (UTC)Vera Ferguson
Can someone make this page longer? Torax's Rage 00:23, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
other editor (anonymous): it would certainly be nice to see where Ensure lines up compared to products like Huel, Soylent, etc.
How do these products compare in terms of providing something close to a complete nutritional package? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
73.62.167.26 (
talk) 23:17, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
Should there be a direct link to the manufactures website on the disambiguate page? Shouldn't this be a link to the wikipedia article on the product instead? Ochbad ( talk) 05:04, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
According to the manufacturers web site it's a drink AKA a shake. They don't say anything about force feeding being the "intended use". This needs cleaning up. 99.11.160.111 ( talk) 06:48, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
This product is available in both powder and liquid form. The directions on a bottle of Ensure are: Shake well. Serve cold. It does not mention administering.
The powder may be mixed either with milk or water.
Medical and dental professionals may recommend this product following extensive medical or dental procedures to maintain proper nutrition during the patient's recovery.
Respectfully, Tiyang ( talk) 17:16, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
June 12, 2012: Please accept the edits to this Ensure Wikidpedia page by me. My name is Scott Stoffel, and I work at Abbott in Corporate Public Affairs, and the edits I am providing are all factual. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to access my contact information, found here:
http://abbott.com/news-media/contacts.htm — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
ScottStoffelAbbott (
talk •
contribs) 04:12, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
I saw a link to "Milkshake" in the "See also" section. It looked weird to me, so I removed it, although I added Infant formula, which sounds quite related to the subject of this page.
@ Jytdog: reverted it and said that it's not infant formula. That's correct—Ensure is indeed not infant formula, but it's certainly not quite a milkshake either.
If everybody thinks that infant formula is unrelated, then I guess that the whole "See also" section can be removed, but "Milkshake" definitely seems out of place. -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 11:33, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
User: Weijiasi if you have any questions about my edits, please ask here. For any content that is WP:Biomedical information please use sources that comply with WP:MEDRS. For all other content, please use sources that comply with WP:RS; in general please avoid press releases and blogs. Thanks.
I did a search for good sources about Ensure a month or so ago; hard to find many good refs. The Ohio History site was nice find! Jytdog ( talk) 22:17, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi User:Jytdog. First, let me say, thanks for the edits and appreciate the Wikipedia rule references. Quickly getting me up to speed. I respectfully disagree with your removal of the "available in flavors" for each variant.
you mentioned: "available in" is a) trivia; b) changeable, and impossible to keep updated; c) unanchored in time)"
Also, I think it's best to keep discontinued products in the same lists. There are other products that are discontinued but because I couldn't find references, couldn't label them as such. By separating we are indicating the long list of products are definitely "alive", when that may not be the case
-- Weijiasi ( talk) 21:53, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
--Hi User:Jytdog
Weijiasi ( talk) 16:19, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
Thanks User:Jytdog --- Weijiasi ( talk) 17:09, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus to move. Various ideas about this maybe not being the primarytopic, but no consensus for that or for a new title. ( non-admin closure) Dicklyon ( talk) 03:25, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
Ensure →
Ensure (nutritional supplement) – or
Ensure (meal replacement). This brand-name product seems obscure enough that
Ensure, like
Insure, should redirect to
Insurance. See also the somewhat-related discussion at
Talk:Soylent (food). —
BarrelProof (
talk) 15:31, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
In the sentence below, you added a wikilink pointing to GSK's Boost page section
In the 1990s Ensure and other nutritional drink brands like Sustacal, Boost and Resource were fiercely competing to capture market share among healthy adults...
However, the NY Times article that that information was referenced from was talking about a different Boost. It was referring to Ensure's known competitor, Boost by Nestle (the nutritional supplement drink similar to Ensure)
If you look at your linked GSK section, it says:
GSK's consumer healthcare division... sells oral healthcare...and drinks such as Horlicks, Boost, a chocolate-flavoured malt drink sold in India, and formerly Lucozade and Ribena
That boost is an Indian product. Not the right Boost from Nestle. (This is the problem with similarly named products)
I tried to find the appropriate Wikipedia page for the Boost drink by Nestle but looks like no one has created it yet. Anyway, I removed the wikilink. If you find the right Nestle Boost wikipage, please add back. Or, if you find a wikipage for Sustacal, feel free to add as well. (Which funnily enough, is also made by Nestle)
Cheers
-- Weijiasi ( talk) 18:28, 9 February 2017 (UTC)