Trying to tune the app for Familial Hypercholesterolemia

blastedkane
blastedkane Posts: 2 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hi All,

I have the paid for version and have been using the app for general carb counting, which it works very well for and has the "Macros" easily visible however I need to find a way to track a different set of nutrients. I need to set it up to monitor the diet for someone with Familial Hypercholesterolemia. this requires tracking of more than the three allowed custom options. Ideally I would like to be checking the carb level, protein level, Fibre levels, Cholesterol and Fats (split into unsaturated fats and saturated).

I know I can see that in the Nutrients section of the nutrition "tab" however I would really like to be able to track these from a front facing dashboard like you currently can with the "Macros" in the "Nutrients remaining" in the Diary Tab.

Is this possible.

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    Go to Food > Settings

    You can track six total columns on the FOOD page, and on the web version there is an additional "Printable" version that has eight non-editable columns. So theoretically on the free version you could see 13 total columns, for a choice of 12 different nutrients. Calories are locked in the FOOD page, but the other five can be changed in FOOD > Settings.

    https://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,687 Member
    If you’re relying on this for medical reasons, please be very conscious that food entries are crowd-sourced. Some people don’t enter accurate info, some only bother to enter calories, or F/P/C and no other macros.

  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    springlering62 wrote: »
    If you’re relying on this for medical reasons, please be very conscious that food entries are crowd-sourced. Some people don’t enter accurate info, some only bother to enter calories, or F/P/C and no other macros.

    Yep, I'm anemic and I expect iron counts for USER entered foods to be wrong. (I've never had a problem with micros for foods that MFP pulled from the USDA database.)

    I've recently started tracking saturated fats and the crowd-sourced entries are better with that than iron, but I still check EVERY. SINGLE. NEW. FOOD.

    Unfortunately, the green check marks in the MFP database are used for both USER-created entries and ADMIN-created entries that MFP pulled from the USDA database. A green check mark for USER-created entries just means enough people have upvoted the entry - it is not necessarily correct.

    To find ADMIN entries for whole foods, I get the syntax from the USDA database and paste that into MFP.

    https://fdc.nal.usda.gov

    The USDA changed the platform for their database in 2019 and it is unfortunately a little more difficult to use. I uncheck everything but “SR Legacy” - that seems to be what MFP used to pull in entries.

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