It's not their area of specialty, unless they are a doctor who's studied nutrition. (that's not what you said, you said RD) Most doctors don't get much education on nutrition and some say all sorts of silliness. I can't agree with the part about only changing the targets or ratios if you consult with an MD in the US. The constant moan of the media is to eat more protein and they never mention the hazard part. This puts stress on the kidneys which over a lifetime can lead to kidney failure, which is on the increase. The hazard of too much protein is that the kidneys need to filter it out. I can't tell you how often they talk about protein goals of over 1 g of protein per pound of body weight. ** You should hear me at the gym arguing with the muscle heads. Its also pretty easy on a healthy vegan diet. A ratio of 25/50/25 would probably be good for regular athletes, too. The Zone diet which was specifically designed for athletes (Stanford swim team) uses 30/40/30. The more calories you burn, the higher your calorie requirement becomes and then your protein requirement goes up accordingly. IMHO this is even a good target for athletes. I think a better alternative to fixed targets is to use MacroNutrient Ratios instead. but CronOmeter can take care of that for you in the Settings > Target controls. One special need that some people have is that they are trying to gain or lose weight. and I've reset all my goals to regular person ones.
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but I did so with the guidance of a RD and I had a RD because I was very sick ( I lost 30 pounds in 2 months). First I'm saying that you should change NOT change your targets, and then I admit to doing so. * if you were paying attention you may think you spotted an inconsistency or maybe even hypocrisy on my part. If you have doubts you can check out any number of protein calculators that they have on the web or use one of the formulas that are Dr. **my best advice is just to use the default that CronOmeter comes up with after you set up your profile. I think a lot of this is due to advertising (brain washing) by the supplement industry and the food companies (mostly livestock and dairy). Also from my own personal experience and some reading I've concluded that a lot of people over estimate their protein requirements. Unless you really know what your are doing and then only if you have some sort of special needs.
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I think people would be best advised not to mess with the targets. One a cronometer issue and one a straight up nutrition issue.ġ.
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If you're eating clean - this may not even be an issue. If you are eating a processed food it might not know the AA and then it doesn't get worked into the calculations. CronOmeter only knows the AA for most foods. )Īnd if you are not meeting your AA targets take that with a grain of salt. I even asked my RD about this and she never checked with CronOmeter but her guess was that you might change your protein requirements in the app and then not meet them but the app calculates your AA requirements based on biology (ht, wt, age, gender, etc. And I'm pretty sure it is because I increased my protein requirements. I won't be able to check that out till tomorrow but I think that will be really cool. The main thing is I think my calories burned will now come from Apple Health. I'm still trying to make sense of most of it. Lots of data are saved from CronOmeter to Health. I downloaded it and it now talks to Apple Health on my iPhone.
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I am not sure what it does but I think you get if for free if you become a gold member. The recipe even has a note feature - I have been thinking of organizing my recipes anyway and now I'm just going to put the directions in the notes.Ģ. If you take a lot of supplements you can just put them all in the recipes, too. So you have a recipe - you plug in all the ingredients - estimate the number of servings and then just add a serving of the "recipe" to any day. I also tend to make the same recipe over and over again. This is so much better for people like me who do bulk food cooking. This week I learned that no, anyone can make a recipe. I always thought that the "recipe feature" was an advanced feature that only Gold members had - and I was too cheap to pay for it. I have been using CronOmeter for everything every day.ġ.
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Which is exactly the opposite of how my goals have been. This month my main goal is to get my calorie consumption up, my weight up, etc. If I had a nickel for every time I recommended CronOmeter to someone here in the forum