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How Can I Help My Father Gain Weight?
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His eating is very hit and miss. He says he cannot smell or taste the food…and that things don’t taste like he would expect. Foods or treats he used to love he will no longer touch. He continues to lose weight and sleeps more and more. We tried one medication that was an appetite stimulant with no results. He did like vanilla boost (no other flavors or brands…we tried) but now he will barely even finish one of those. I feel like we need an expert in diet and nutrition, a chef, and a physical… read more

posted November 12, 2022
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Something outside the box. Medicinal weed. I do not get high. But it will make me eat weather I can digest or not. No appetite is no digestion

posted November 12, 2022

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