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How-to
Practical pieces on tracking well: reading a label, spotting where cooking changes the numbers, and setting goals and caps that mean something.
- How-to
How to read a nutrition label in 30 seconds
Four things, in order, and you can ignore the rest of the panel. The serving size trick at the top is where most people get misled before they have started.
4 min read
- How-to
Tracking what a baby eats, and what gets flagged
Solids are a small part of a baby's intake and a large part of the worry. Here is what is worth tracking between six and twelve months, what AIM flags on its own, and the things it cannot tell you about a jar of baby food.
7 min read4 sources
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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.
5 min read
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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.
4 min read