Originally Posted by
RH Clark
I would agree. It's not something I do but I am interested. I go to extremes to eat a varied number of natural foods striving for a well-balanced diet, but I don't test. What is the preferred method? Blood test?
I just meant that in counting calories with an App you also automatically get a breakdown of your macros. It's obviously only as accurate as your input data, but if you log everything you eat for a few weeks it gives you a good idea of your carb/ fat/protein balance. For example I noticed that my protein intake was relatively low. What the correct macro balance should actually be is highly contentious, but at least I have a known starting point.
I've just signed up for the ZOE nutritional programme, which includes a bunch of gut microbe tests and blood glucose monitoring. It will be interesting to see how that goes.