ENSPIRATIONS FIRST TRIMESTER 2008 • VolUMe 1 • ISSUE 1 Balanced Nutrition News for Professionals from Ensure ® Ask an Abbott RD—Get an Answer Instantly! With this free instant messenger service, you can • Ask about Ensure products, the science behind ® chat live with our Abbott Nutrition experts for them, or patient-specific treatment issues Ensure Plus Launches with answers in a flash. If you are looking for quick • Learn how Ensure helps people with special ® ® and reliable information on the Ensure brand of health concerns products, Ensure.com/ask gives you direct access NutraFlora Prebiotic Fiber. to live, licensed, registered dietitians, who are • Available Mon–Fri, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST Most healthy adults only take in just over half of their daily accredited by the American Dietetic Association and • After hours, e-mail your question for a fiber requirement. This is likely to be much lower for those ready to answer your nutrition questions in an instant quick response message chat session. Your private text conversation with compromised health who rely on oral nutritional supplements So if there’s a nutrition question on your is not visible to other visitors. for a good portion of their diet. To help satisfy their needs (and the wishes Coming Soon… New and mind, start your own chat session today at of health care professionals), Abbott Nutrition has added 3 g of fiber in ® Ensure.com/ask. We look forward to hearing Improved Ensure Pudding! from you. every 8-oz serving of Ensure Plus. Not Just Any Fiber enhances water and electrolyte absorption Ensure Plus contains 2 g of NutraFlora® in the colon, critical factors in reducing 5 The reformulation of Ensure Pudding is almost here! We’ve scFOS® (short-chain fructooligosaccharides), constipation and diarrhea. ROss BecOMes a natural, soluble, prebiotic fiber. Ensure Complete Nutrition Plus highlighted the features below to give you a sneak peak of what Plus also has 1 g of Fibersol-2, a soluble Award-Winning Taste fiber sourced from cornstarch. All of the † we’re doing to help you and your patients… fiber used in Ensure Plus is fermented As a good source of fiber , Ensure Plus truly in the intestinal tract, keeping it a low- delivers on the complete, balanced residue product. nutrition promise while maintaining its Improved Fat Profile Good Source of Fiber ‡ New Taste Technology AbbOtt NUtritiON. award-winning taste. Consumer research The new Ensure Pudding will Ensure Pudding will be enhanced Because a big factor in compliance For more than 100 years, Ross has As a division of Abbott, we Alimentum®, and Similac® Isomil® Immune Benefits demonstrates no difference in overall acceptance with or without fiber, allowing contain zero trans fat. It will also with 3 g of NutraFlora® scFOS®, is taste, we will be unleashing new been well recognized as one of the remain committed to the highest Advance® in infant nutritionals; By nourishing the friendly bacteria in the IN THIS ISSUE: gut, NutraFlora increases the production patients to remain easily compliant with be a good source of plant-based providing all of the great prebiotic flavor technologies for vanilla, ® ® 1 Ensure Plus® Launches with world’s most respected names for standards of quality, excellence, PediaSure and Pedialyte for of Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria, while professional recommendations for ® ® omega-3s (ALA) with 160 mg fiber benefits now seen in Ensure chocolate, and butterscotch. This nutritional products. Health care and innovation. We remain true children; Ensure , ZonePerfect , inhibiting the growth of pathogenic bacteria. Ensure Plus. NutraFlora Prebiotic Fiber ® (10% of the 1.6 g DV) in every Plus . Just one serving of Ensure means patients with flavor fatigue professionals and their patients look to the tenets upon which our and EAS® for healthy, active NutraFlora increases production of short- ® Customers will see newly reformulated 2 NutraFlora —A Natural, 4-oz serving to help support Pudding will also provide all of or dysphagia will have exciting ® chain fatty acids (SCFAs), which activate to us for nutritional products—and company was founded—providing adults; and Glucerna for people Ensure Plus at retail and in institutions with Prebiotic Approach to local and systemic white blood cells. These heart health. the calcium absorption benefits new opportunities to improve their partnerships—that encompass every innovative and superior nutrition with diabetes. no changes in stock code numbers. It will Supporting Probiotic Bacteria immune benefits are seen using just 1 g of of NutraFlora along with the nutritional status. be available in cans, bottles, 8-oz and 32-oz Lactose Free stage of life for essential growth, that advances the quality of life for NutraFlora per day.1 3 RD411.com Announces additional benefits of supporting As we transition from Ross to packaging beginning in February 2008. As the inventory of current Ensure development, and well-being. We people of all ages. As our name Development of Another key feature will be the the immune system and promoting Abbott Nutrition, you can remain Increases Calcium Absorption* Pudding diminishes in July, the new are proud of our Ross legacy, and indicates—nutrition is our business. NutraFlora and scFOS are not trademarks of Abbott Laboratories. Kid/Toddler Section change in the protein system, digestive tract health and helping confident that behind our new As people age, their ability to absorb calcium formulation will replace it. It will use we’re equally proud of our new 4 Easy and Nutritious Recipes making Ensure Pudding lactose free, maintain regularity. Our cutting-edge science is behind name are the same products, declines. The production of SCFAs lowers *12 fl oz of Ensure Plus per day are needed to get 3 g name—Abbott Nutrition. Our new NutraFlora to enhance calcium absorption. so patients who experience lactose the same product codes as the some of the world’s most trusted same people, same values, and the pH in the colon, allowing calcium to 5 Coming Soon…New and existing formulation to minimize identity clearly spells out who we †See nutrition information for fat content. ® intolerance will be able to enjoy names in the nutritional market: same commitment to being Your remain soluble and improving conditions for Improved Ensure Pudding! your administrative changes. are and the work we do. absorption. Research shows that using 3 g Ensure Pudding too. The new milk Similac® Advance®, Similac® Nutrition Partner. 6 Ask an Abbott RD protein source will provide the dual of NutraFlora per day helps support bone NutraFlora and scFOS are not trademarks of health by increasing calcium absorption up 6 Ross Becomes Abbott Nutrition benefit of becoming lactose free as Abbott Laboratories. to 54% in healthy adults.2-4 Quick Fact: ‡ well as improving the product color. See nutrition information for fat content. REFERENCES: 1. Hidaka H., et al. Effects of fructooligosaccharides on intestinal flora and human health.Bifid Microflora 1986;5:37-50 2. Uenishi K, Ohta A, Fukushima Y, et al: Effects of malt drink containing fructooligosaccharides on calcium absorption and safety of long-term administration. Jpn J Nutr Diet 2002;60:11-18. 3. Fukushima Y, Jun CJ, Kegai K, et al: Calcium absorption Helps Maintain Digestive Health Seventy percent of the body’s COMPLIANCE COUNTS of malt drink containing fructooligosaccharides and safety in humans. J Nutr Food 2002;5:49-60. 4. Ohta A, Sakai K, Takasaki K: The advantages of calcium supplement tablet (candy) containing and Regularity fructooligosaccharides for the healthy human being. J Nutr Food 1999;2:37-43. 5. Bowling TE, Raimundo AH, Grimble GK, Silk DB: Reversal by short-chain fatty acids of colonic fluid secretion immune system is found in the induced by enteral feeding. Lancet 1993;342:1266-1268. Adding fiber to the diet increases the gastrointestinal tract. Abbott Nutrition volume and reduces the transit time of ©2008 Abbott Laboratories Inc. stool to improve regularity. NutraFlora Abbott Laboratories 71254/JANUARY 2008 COMPLIANCE COUNTS Columbus, Ohio 43215-1724 USA LITHO IN USA 5 6 1 NutraFlora®—A Natural, Prebiotic Approach RD411.com Announces Development of Easy and Nutritious Recipes to Supporting Probiotic Bacteria. Kid/Toddler Section. to Help Manage Flavor Fatigue. 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