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=== Things that can be measured with these tools ===
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Engaging in diet tracking is a common practice, for weight-loss but also related to health issues and chronic conditions that require particular diets. A variety of tools try to enable the tracking of food eaten, often attached to databases that enable additional data such as calories, macro/micronutrients and other things.
== Types of data recorded by diet tracking tools ==
What exactly is recorded by the tools can depend on the exact tool used, but frequently recorded information includes:
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* calorie intake
* macronutrients: carbs, proteins, fats
* micronutrients: iron, calcium, vitamin D, etc.
* brands and manufacturers
* enjoyment, circumstances, environment surrounding eating
== Projects and results from these tools ==
* Greg Pomerantz [https://sethroberts.net/2012/11/07/journal-of-personal-science-how-much-salt-should-i-eat/ tracked the impact of sodium/salt in his diet on blood pressure and other metrics]
* [[Quantified Diabetes]] did some rigorous tests on the impact of different diets on blood glucose
* Winslow Strong used diet tracking in [[MyFitnessPal]] to [https://quantifiedself.com/show-and-tell/?project=155 observe how a low carbohydrate/paleo diet impacted his body]
== Patients and communities that need these tools ==
Weight loss is a very common goal. Communities about stomach and liver problems.
Weight loss is a very common goal. Communities about stomach and liver problems.
=== Technical guide to these tools ===
== Tips and guides to using diet tracking tools ==
Typically most tools are somewhat self-explanatory after installation. Beyond this, there are some tips and advice on how to consistently track diet:
* Buying a kitchen scale can be useful to accurately track the amounts eaten, in particular if you cook yourself or eat at restaurants that don't have standard food quantities.
* Frequently, people engaging in diet tracking find that the manual labor of recording their diets becomes too onerous and quit after a few months. [[User:DG|DG]] suggests regularly repeating meals as this a) speeds up the speed of logging data as it will be a 'recently used meal' (e.g. as available in the tool [[Bitesnap]]) and b) also can help find patterns in the data.
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== Table of common diet tracking tools ==
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=== References ===
=== References ===
Source: https://forum.quantifiedself.com/t/recommended-food-tracking-apps/252/38 (May 2019)
Source: https://forum.quantifiedself.com/t/recommended-food-tracking-apps/252/38 (May 2019)