Articles
Nutrition, written honestly
The reasoning behind how AIM works, and the questions underneath it — including the ones where the correct answer is “software cannot know that”.
NutritionSeptember 13, 20264 min read
Does the water in your food count toward hydration?
Roughly 20–30% of most people's daily water intake arrives as food rather than drink. Almost no food tracker counts it, which is why hydration numbers in those apps run low.
How-toSeptember 11, 20265 min read
How to track a nutrient your app doesn't have a field for
Folate, iodine, choline, omega-3, magnesium — the nutrients people are told to watch are rarely the nutrients trackers expose. AIM lets you add the one you care about and set a goal on it.
How-toSeptember 8, 20264 min read
Caps, not goals: limiting soda, sugar and seed oils
Most trackers only know how to count up toward a target. Some of what you eat needs a ceiling instead — a number to stay under, with something that says so when you pass it.
ProductSeptember 5, 20265 min read
What a photo can — and can't — tell you about heavy metals in food
AIM can flag that a category of food has a documented contamination history. It will never print a number for lead in your protein powder, because a photograph cannot know that.
NutritionSeptember 2, 20264 min read
Why food diaries fail in week two
Adherence studies keep finding the same thing: people stop logging because logging is slow, not because they stop caring. The fix is fewer taps per meal, not more motivation.