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Meals in a glass: the best and healthiest replacement meals

13 October 2001

The idea that humans can get all the nutrition they need in a pill or a drink has been the stuff of science fiction for decades. Today, life is imitating art, with many companies claiming to produce powders which, when mixed with milk, water or juice, can provide all the nutrients we need in a single efficient, calorie-controlled portion.

Such drinks are often used as diet aids and at the popular end of the market - where drinks like Slim Fast (and its various copycats) live - the meal in a glass means that hopeful slimmers don’t have to spend hours thinking about food, weighing food and balancing food groups in order to lose weight.

For very obese individuals, this type of calorie-controlled regime has been proven in medical studies (albeit, more often than not, funded by Slim Fast) to be moderately successful - at least in the short term.

In one Finnish study, for example, 100 participants were given either conventional foods o...

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