A comprehensive review of meal replacement from dining table to sickbed:beyond biomedical potentials  

作　　者：Hao Qiang Tianshu Xu Peng Ma Siyuan Zhang Guanhua Du Guifen Qiang Tengfei Ji 

机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines,Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College,Beijing 100050,China [2]School of Chemistry,Cardiff University,Cardiff CF103XQ,UK [3]Beijing Key Laboratory of Drug Target and Screening Research,Institute of Materia Medica,Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College,Beijing 100050,China

出　　处：《Food Science and Human Wellness》2025年第3期822-834,共13页食品科学与人类健康(英文)

基　　金：funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82070877);the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(CIFMS)(2021-I2M-1-028,2021-I2M-1-005);the International Cooperation Project of Qinghai Province(2020-HZ-803)。

摘　　要：The emergence of meal replacement(MR)originates from physical exercise or fitness as a substitute for one or all meals and later expands to the field of weight loss.Indeed,the main application of current meal replacement is to lose body weight,whether patients with obesity,diabetes,fatty liver,infertile or pregnant women can benefit from weight loss.In addition,MRs still exhibit more biomedical potential in preventing and treating diseases,like anti-diabetes,improving fatty liver and kidney disease,preventing cancer,conceiving and reducing pregnancy complications,and improving life quality.Indeed,there are also disadvantages to meal replacement,including causing adverse effects,although most are acceptable and tolerated.To date,various commercially-developed MRs are walking from dining table to sickbed.Therefore,a scientific understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of meal replacements is crucial for their extensive application beyond biomedical potentials.

关 键 词：Meal replacement Weight loss Biomedical potentials 

分 类 号：R73[医药卫生—肿瘤]