The Food Calendar
This Christmas Gro discovered she might be gluten intolerant. That of course presents some new problems, and problems need to be solved. Writing down everything one eats seems like a smart thing to do in a situation like that, but it gets tedious pretty fast. A friend of ours is having great success with his new eating habits (We’re just gonna mention the book “The 4 hr body” and leave it at that), and we got talking about diets. He said that a great way to be more aware of what you eat, is to take a photo of everything you consume. Simple, but very effficient. True, by recording everything you eat, pigging out on chocolate doesn’t seem as tempting as before.
Anyway, the point is that recording what you eat can be a good tool, whether you suspect allergies or are trying to eat healthier. Gro writes stuff down in her calendar, but it doesn’t give her any stats (and you know we love stats). Actually, it’s not that practical at all. You know The Refinement Club isn’t focused on research, so without knowing too much about what’s out there (ok we checked like 2 apps), here’s what we’d like:
A calendar app with a photo function
- Take pictures of what you eat/ drink, add them to a date with time
- Tag pictures with keywords e.g pork, baked potato, broccoli.. (like you tag people on FB)
- Tag pictures with less/ more (what you’d like to cut back on/ eat more of)
- See stats of all your keywords
- Tag pictures with risk (if you know you ate something you might react to), and be prompted to record reactions at certain time intervals
- Get help to find and add nutrient information to keywords
- Set goals
- Record weight and measurements, and see graphs of progress
- Record your mood and how you feel after you have eaten something
So that’s basically it. An app like that shouldn’t do too much, it should just do what you need it to do. What do you think?
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