Ways to Track your Food: Tech World

Tracking Food is the way where you can monitor your Food. Hunger is the body’s in built Food Tracker and one should not kill their hunger to build a un healthy relationship with the Food. Technology is at our hands where one can count their calories and maintain a healthy life without being Insane. Carefully planned meals make us know the calculation of “Calories in and Calories out” and makes a perfect point of weight gain, weight loss or weight management. We need to ensure the master equation to reach the goal of the nutrition through the latest personalized Nutrition Trackers.

Can Food Tracking be named as “Self-Monitoring of Diet”, there are plenty more to back up the ways of Food Tracking. Scientist’s curiosity has laid a foundational key to the ways of weight loss through Food Tracking. A research review has found the way of positive weight loss and the Food Tracking (Food Intake)  where studies showed the dietary reports. Latest Food Technology gadgets have found a way of tracking food more easier and precise.

Diet Sensor: This has become one gadget where the equipment can scan the food by passing a beam of light and tells the nutrient components in the food along with the amount of Protein, Fat and carbohydrates content. The constituents are calculated by the interaction of the food with the ray of light passed by the Diet Sensor. The sensor passes a beam of infra-red light onto the surface of the food that enables the food molecules to vibrate and allows it to produce optical Signature of the food molecules

The drawback of this Diet sensor is that, the scanner works only for the homogeneous food or foods with one layer, for example foods like bread, cheese slices or chicken but not chicken sandwich. There is a data base due use the Diet sensor for non-homogenous foods.  Diet sensor app displays the nutritional content for you to know the amount of food intake taken by you and also advices the portion of food to be taken by you based on your goals of nutritional intake based on the data bases you provide and conditions your health with Diabetes, high cholesterol and makes you fitness expert. New products like Hidrate Spark, Smart diet scale are out in this technological world where the sensor in the Hydrate Spark makes you know the amount of water intake  and Smart diet gives the nutritional information by weighing the food with more precise and accurate values of the calories and nutrient calculations.

Get to know more of such more technological gadgets to make a healthy life, Fitness freaks can get more knowledge at our 2nd International Conference on Nutrition, Food Science and Technology @ Abu Dhabi.

Nutrition Networking: Brain Psychiatry Impacts

Brain Disease starts in your daily breed. Our Brain is always ON, as it continuously takes care of our thoughts, breathing and movements. It continuously works 24/7. This means it requires constant supply of fuel and this supply of food comes from the stuff which we feed ourselves. This is the reason we need to keep our system in peak working conditions. Nutrition is always linked to the cognitive performance. Recent studies show that monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA’s) a class of nutrients found in olive oils, nuts and avocados are connected to optimum intelligence, and that this relationship is driven by the correlation between MUFAs and the organization of the brain’s attention network, studies are still under the cover in finding out what underlies the connection.

Today’s goal is to understand on how nutrition might be used to support cognitive performance and to study the ways in which nutrition may influence the functional organization of the human brain. The ongoing study is important because if we want to develop nutritional interventions that are effective at enhancing cognitive performance, we need to understand the ways that these nutrients influence brain function. Researchers examined the relationship between groups of fatty acids and brain networks that underlie general intelligence. This was a way to sought and understand if brain network organization mediated the relationship between fatty acids and general intelligence. Studies suggesting cognitive benefits of the General diet, which is rich in Mono saturated Fatty Acids, made the researchers to focus on this specific group of fatty acids. They examined nutrients in the recipient’s blood and found that the fatty acids clustered into two patterns: Saturated fatty acids and MUFAs. The approach was focused on Individual proteins. It was in co-relation with the Dietary patterns and the dietary intake of specific nutrients.

Studies revealed that the General Intelligence was mainly because of the Dorsal Attention network, which plays a critical role in demanding the regular tasks of everyday. The Neural network is well organized in a cluster of regions as well as the globally integrated systems. Studies showed that the Mono saturated Fatty Acids are related to the specific brain networks of dorsal attentional network and these are very well organized. The next level of study is to understand the relationship between the Mono saturated Fatty Acids and the general Intelligence. These findings relate the effect of Nutrition with the general Intelligence

To protect your brain, it’s good to follow the dietary intake which tends to be make the brain networking the superfast. Food ingredients like Sodium increases the risk of high blood pressure, a risk factor for stroke, and saturated fat and cholesterol can clog arteries, triggering a stroke. A heart healthy diet will reduce the risk of a stroke because heart and brain health go together. This means eating plenty of fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and fish and reducing consumption of red meat and fatty foods.

I QUIT SUGAR! Making Sense of Sugar

We have probably heard a million times that sugar affects our system, but still it’s worth repeating. Added sugars in our diet is the worst ingredient that we include in our regular decorum, as it contains whole lot of calories (Sucrose, Fructose) with no essential nutrients. This is the reason it’s called Empty Calories. There is an increasing pressure on various studies to make a move to completely stop the consumption of sugar for a healthy metabolism, as sugar indirectly causes Obesity.

Sugar nevertheless is found in the form of many sources. The natural sugars are found in the foods like Milk (Lactose), Fruits and Honey. These are also called as Free Sugars while other set of Sugars is the Artificial or Added sugars which are high risk when consumed.

World Nutrition and Health Professionals recommend only to an extent of 5% of the added or natural sugar intake in our daily diet. Children can be limited of up to only 19gms of Sugar in their diet. When we consume a greater amount of Sugar (10% – 15%) it leads to nutritional deficiencies and it also causes the bacteria in the mouth and often results in tooth decaying. Sugar also overloads your liver. Sugar becomes an addiction for many, which causes immense pain, nausea, and flu-like symptoms during abrupt withdrawal. Continuous sugar consumption leads to accumulation of fats and liver deposits which leads to problems. The consumption of limited added sugars and the natural sugars from fruits doesn’t give any risk of fat accumulation.

Sugar can cause insulin resistance, which causes cardiovascular risk, obesity, diabetes and other health complications. Studies reveal that insulin resistance is associated with sugar consumption. Studies also warm that high consumption of sugars lead to the risk of cancer. Sugar addictions can be compared to drug addiction as it releases the hormone Dopamine. It causes a 60% chance of obesity risk in children and adults. The source comes from the daily sugar included diet and sugar sweetened beverages. Not surprisingly, people ultimately become overweight and obese. Now the only thing one can do is cut off sugar in every single bite. It’s the Sugar not the fat which is causing the Cardio-vascular effects. Evidences show the effect of fructose on the metabolism leading to cardio risk.

The only thing one can do is to eliminate the usage of 80% of the processed foods, limiting the amount of fructose in your diet. Control your Dopamine and stop your cravings and say NO to Sugar. The best way to avoid high sugar is to pick up Fruits with high water content which are low in sugar. Do not substitute artificial sugars in your Tea or Coffee as latest studies revealed a whole lot of risk of cancer and other Health problems with the addition of artificial sugars in our diet. Keep an eagle eye on all the nutrition and Sugar labeled canned foods for the Sugar.