DASH diet

Teeebone
Teeebone Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Does MyFitnessPal support tracking to use the dash diet?

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,426 Member
    You can track in any way that suits you.

    It doesn't make recommendations, if that's what you mean - other than macros, which are set at 50% Carbs, 30% fat, and 20% protein by default. You can set other macro splits in your "Goals" and then log according to that.
  • ngagne
    ngagne Posts: 60 Member
    Wondering the same - mainly to monitor the salt intake. I'm thinking in order to monitor best, I might have to try the Premium.

    Good luck - and as hopefully motivation.... I am/was hypertension and am/was on blood pressure medicine. I was able to lose 20lbs (so far) and I've been weening off the medicine. First reduced mg, and my blood pressure stayed lower, and for a week, no medicine. And so far, it's still looking good. I reduced portion size and snacking, and consciously chose lower sodium (like not salting my foods as heavily, not using soy sauce, stopped enjoying my favoriteblue cheese (so salty, but soooo delicious)... I already didn't eat alot of processed things, but those to be avoided too). Mediterranean diet is also a good with Dash, if you need more meal inspiration.

    But you can do it too. Keep up the good work!
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,426 Member
    edited September 25
    @ngagne As far as monitoring Sodium, even in the free version that's available. You can change your columns on your FOOD diary so different nutrients are visible. Go to FOOD > Settings, and you'll see options to change the Nutrients Tracked.

    They are all still being tracked in the background, regardless of which you choose to have visible on FOOD. You can view past progress at any time for 18 different food nutrients tracked in the system - on the browser/web you can find that in "Reports." I think that's called "Nutrition" on the Apple app...not sure, I know it's there, I just don't use the app. However, be aware that 99% of food in the database is crowd-sourced so check their accuracy the first time you use them.

    Alternately, on the web version (on a browser) you can also toggle to the Printable Version at the bottom on the FOOD page and see the additional nutrients tracked by default, one of which is Sodium, so it's just a click away at all times.

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