Free Cronometer App

Track Your Nutrition for Better Health this Year!

There are a lot of different apps out there to track your lifestyle habits in order to help you reach your fitness goals. Downloading an app to put in data about what you are eating, how much exercise you are doing, recording sleep patterns and counting steps is easy but the question is what app is best.  I have not yet invested in a fitbit or other bracelets for the cost turns me off (but if you have and you have feedback please let me know) but I have tried a few free apps and find Cronometer to be the best.  
 

I find it very user friendly but it's also the third app I was trying so maybe part of it being user friendly was because I was already used to it with the other apps.  When logging in food it has over 50,000 foods already in a library that makes it easy to input what you are eating.  But instead of just keeping track of calories, protein, fats, and carbohydrates it also tracks over 60 nutrients so you also know how much potassium, iodine, vitamins A-Z you are getting.  If the app registers you are low on iodine it then will suggest foods such as seaweed, cranberries and yogurt and recipes to help you reach your ideal iodine level.  

It is important to track calories to know if you are eating enough or maybe too much.  It is also important to know where those calories are coming from because the average American tends to eat too many carbs and too little protein and/or fat.  But with this app recording the nutrients you are eating as well it can give insight to what you can eat more of from a medicinal point of view.  "Let food be thy medicine," Hippocrates said, and that is why we implement Standard Process whole food supplements when we develop clinically designed nutrition programs.  Standard Process is an organic farm and all the supplements are food based but with this new app nutrients can be pinpointed so you can balance out your nutrients on your own and not necessarily need more supplements to help an underlying health issue.  Knowledge is power and this app can definitely help!