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Nutrition

9 Tips For Achieving Long-Term Weight Loss

Key Factors In Achieving Sustainable Weight Loss Embarking on a journey towards sustainable weight loss is a life-long commitment to a healthier, happier you. While

Nutrition

How Fast Should I Lose Weight?

Impacts Of Losing Weight Quick vs. Slow Embarking on a weight loss journey can be a challenging yet rewarding experience. One of the most common

Cronometer Spices
Nutrition

5 Nutrition Tips To Help Reduce Anxiety

Eat Calm and Carry On written by dr. uma naidoo, nutritional psychiatrist Here are some of my favorite foods and essential nutrients to make 2024

App Updates

Our Men’s Health Nutrition Score

Nutrition Score Focuses on Men’s Health Available Free To Male Users For The Month Of June It’s no surprise that males and females are quite

App Updates

Our Women’s Health Nutrition Score

Nutrition Score Focuses on Women’s Health Available Free To Female Users For The Month Of May Here at Cronometer, we’re big supporters of the fact

App Updates

Fasting with the Cronometer App

updated april 2023 Fasting Feature Now Improved We’ve made some exciting changes to our intermittent fasting feature, available to all Cronometer Gold users. We’ve polished

General

Ways To Boost Your Immune System

Immunity Boosting Micronutrients Since it’s flu season – and most of us at the office are feeling it – we thought we’d shine a light

Health

A Look Into Sugar-Free Sensitivities

Breaking Down Sugar Alternatives Isn’t it great that we’ve now come into a world where we can enjoy our guilty pleasure snacks, guilt-free? Many products

General

Ways To Ease Digestion

Digestion Problems? Here’s What To Keep An Eye On. Digestion issues. We’ve all been there. From bloating and cramping to full blown sprinting to the

General

Where Does Energy Come From In Your Diet?

Where Does Energy Come From? It’s no secret that our bodies use food to energize us and keep our systems running. Carbohydrates are our bodies’

Nutrition

The Best Backpacking Meals

If you’re wondering what dehydrated meal to bring on your next adventure then look no further! Cronometer staffers pulled out their forks to taste test

all about fiber, fibre
Health

Nutrition Considerations for Men: Fiber

All About Fiber This month, in celebration of Men’s Health Month, we’re switching gears and putting males into the spotlight to dive deeper into everything

Nutrition

Nutrition For Beginners

Nutrition 101: The Basics If you’re finding yourself on this page, chances are that you’re brand new to nutrition and that you don’t know where

Health

Dietitians Discuss Diet And Eczema

Registered Dietitians Discuss The Link Between Diet And Eczema Eczema is a common, chronic and complex skin disease that arises as a result of interactions

Health

How Can Diet & Nutrition Affect Acne

How Can Diet And Nutrition Affect Acne Acne is a chronic, multifactorial skin condition that is estimated to affect 9.4% of the global population, putting

Nutrition

Nutrition With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

Nutrition With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Follow along for bi-weekly nutrition tips from Dr. Gabrielle Lyon. She goes over why you should track your nutrition, her

collagen
Health

All About Collagen

Collagen has been getting its moment in the spotlight lately as many people are learning about and reaping the benefits of supplementing it in their

Nutrition

Top Diets from the Past Decade

There are so many options available today when it comes to dieting. A few are gaining in popularity at unprecedented rates and some have stood

Health

All About Alcohol

What Happens When You Drink Alcohol? After drinking something with alcohol in it, the liver is the main organ doing the work. The enzyme alcohol

App Updates

Hello, Keto Nutrition Score!

Hello, Keto Nutrition Score! We are so excited to launch a new Nutrition Score to our Gold Subscribers following a ketogenic diet!  This score is

Health

Should I Take Creatine?

Let’s Talk Creatine! Creatine is one of the most highly studied supplements around today! In regards to high-intensity exercise and sports, we know that taking

General

Is Sugar Bad for You?

Let’s Learn About Sugar! If there is one food is highly contested it’s sugar! How many articles/blogs/magazine headlines have you seen that are just concerned

App Updates

New Feature: Nutrition Scores

Nutrition Scores – Newest Gold Feature We are so excited to unveil our latest Gold Subscription feature — Nutrition Scores!  That’s right, we’re giving you even

Guest Posts

Guest Post: How to Reduce Sugar Intake

Reducing your sugar intake is perhaps the single best thing you can do your health and well being, and here’s why. Excess intake may contribute

Health

Should You Buy Organic?

Is organic worth it? In today’s nutrition lexicon, ‘organic’ has become synonymous with ‘healthy’. Many food companies are guilty of using the term to mislead

Fitness

Nutrient Needs for Athletes

The role of nutrition in the maintenance of good health and prevention of disease is well-established. Yet for the competitive or recreational athlete, proper nutrition

Nutrition

Does What We Eat Change our Metabolism?

We’ve all seen those flashy headlines that promise effortless weight loss by simply adding a few key foods that are *guaranteed* to increase your metabolism.

Food allergy
Guest Posts

Food Allergies vs Intolerances

Recent estimates suggest that 3.6% of Americans, or approximately 1 in 25 adults, live with a food allergy or intolerance (1). However, intolerance and allergy

Guest Posts

3 Steps to Mindful Eating

When clients work with me, they expect to talk about their food choices and answer questions like: How many fruits and vegetables do you eat

FODMAP
Guest Posts

Managing IBS with FODMAPs

Understanding IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal disorder afflicting between 10-15% of the U.S. adult population (1). There are no specific tests

tracking
Guest Posts

Why Do We Lie to Our Cronometer?

It’s happened again.  I lied to my Cronometer. Well, I didn’t entirely lie.  I just didn’t tell it the whole truth. I started out the day

fruit
Guest Posts

How much fruit is too much?

Regardless of the type of diet followed, pretty much everyone can agree that eating vegetables is a good idea. However, when it comes to fruit,

Low Carb Revolution
Guest Posts

2018 – The Year of Low Carb

Interview with Dr. Richard Feinman, Professor of Cell Biology, Richard Feinman, PhD, is a cell biologist who is widely credited with doing some of the

Inflammation
Fitness

Fighting Inflammation with Food

‘Inflammation’ is a commonly cited, yet poorly understood, condition that is often used as a “catch-all” diagnosis by both the wellness and medical community to

waist measure
Guest Posts

What is the Glycemic Index?

Although it may seem like diet trends are constantly changing, the reality is that most popular diets are simply iterations of the low-carb, low-fat, or

Nighttime Snacking
Guest Posts

How to Stop Nighttime Snacking

If you struggle with ‘nighttime snacking’, ‘nighttime noshing’ or the ‘midnight munchies’, you’re not alone. In fact, this annoying little habit is by far the

Guest Posts

How to Find Credible Nutrition Information

Edit   In this further guest posting from Susan MacFarlane, RD, we discuss finding credible nutrition information. Nowadays, everyone seems to be an expert when it

Guest Posts

Intermittent Fasting and Weight Loss

What is Intermittent Fasting? guest post by registered dietitian, susan macfarlane Fasting has been an integral part of many different religions for centuries. Fasting has

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General

Cronometer: The Nutrition Super Tracker

The USDA will no longer offer food and physical activity tracking through SuperTracker, leaving current users looking for an alternative. Cronometer has garnered a reputation

Guest Posts

Understanding PRAL Alkaline Diets

Another post by our expert registered dietitian, Susan McFarlane. This time, Susan tackles PRAL centered/alkaline diets and the science behind them. Potential Renal Acid Load

Staying Healthy During the Holidays
Guest Posts

How to Stay on Track during the Holidays

Another guest post from Susan Macfarlane, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist utilizing cronometer.com to help run a busy private practice in Ontario, discussing the challenge of healthy

Basket of Groceries
Guest Posts

Understanding Cronometer’s Nutrient Ratios – Zinc/Copper

Another guest post from Susan Macfarlane, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist running a busy private practice in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario, detailing Cronometer.com’s  (https://cronometer.com) nutrient ratios.

Six Tips for Successful Weight-Loss Tracking

I’m Susan Macfarlane and I’m a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist running a busy private practice in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario. I’m also a nutrition contributor

How Cronometer changed my nutrition practice

I’m Susan Macfarlane and I’m a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist running a busy private nutrition practice in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario. I’m also a nutrition

Fitness

What’s Up With Vitamin A?

What’s up with vitamin A and cronometer.com? I have one lousy small carrot and I am at 278% of my daily requirement for vitamin A.

Fitness

How To Lose Weight With Cronometer

Losing Weight With Cronometer If you’re looking to drop a couple or several pounds, you’ve come to the right place! Losing weight is straight-forward with