Buster fin said..
The chart is helpful but excludes a large number of foods and doesn't seem to factor in if or how the ingredients are prepared. And in the end, I'm sure you'll find that the root cause of the dietary issues plaguing this country is, quite simply, laziness.

psychojoe said..






The chart is mostly useless, it's just what I eat. Most people have no idea how to formulate an anti-inflammatory diet or how to increase neuro transmitter precursor intake or decrease excitory neurotransmitters or pair foods to optimise absorption but an app. could do all that and so much more, at the very least it might help a few people to understand the problem with processed sugar. It'll get ignored as much as smoking advice but it still needs to exist.

Carantoc said..
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psychojoe said..

There are currently no apps in existence that allow users to photograph what they eat with minimal data entry to have the app. cross reference the nutrients in their diet against recommended daily intakes to highlight potential deficiencies and offer dietary solutions.

Whilst all people absorb and process nutrients differently it remains true that eating the most nutrient dense foods reduces opportunities for excess free radicals to cause oxidative stress throughout the body, thus reducing the risk of inflammation, weight gain, cancer and an array of auto-immune diseases.

And while many nutrients can be synthesised from other nutrients, it's ideal to consume the full compliment through diet.


It's currently not realistic to monitor ones intake of all macronutrients, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, lipids, polyphenols and prebiotics. It's far too time consuming and boring, as demonstrated by the below image is a simplified evaluation of the foods I ate this week which shows only a small fraction of what a complete nutrient profile should look like.

An app. would be limited in that the nutritional density of foods varies greatly although foods from a wild or near wild environment consistently measure as more nutritious. An app. would also be limited in that it couldn't measure an individuals nutrient absorption although it could highlight foods that aid and/or hinder the absorption of others.

A good quality version of this app. would cost over one million to develop and would need to be free as to benefit the poorer members of society who tend to be disproportionately malnourished as nutrient sparse foods are cheaper. Hopefully a sensible government health department or a private enterprise will adopt the concept

In the meantime, if anyone is wanting to know what some of the most nutritient dense foods are, below is a list of my favourites.

FormulaNova said..





Are poorer people really malnourished? I would hazard a guess that they are not malnourished at all and meet their minimum needs easily, and have an excess of lots of things on top.

I don't know if I have seen too many skinny poor people running about lately.


Edit: My apologies, I forgot about meth users. They would surely be malnourished?

tarquin1 said..
My kids use this. Not sure if it works in OZ.
yuka.io/en/

psychojoe said..
Obesity is defined as a paradoxical state of malnutrition. The nutrient sparsity of cheap foods leads to excessive calorie intake with insufficient micronutrient intake

FormulaNova said..
Where do you get that info from? Sounds like BS to me I'm sorry.

elbows said..
Try a site called "cronometer " it gives a very good breakdown of nutrients , vitamins & minerals .

tarquin1 said..
It has had an impact on food in France. So many people us it that companies have had to reduce the amount of sugar,salt additives and things. They think it is the reason companies are taking the nitrate out of mass produced ham.
If a product gets a bad score on Yuka people are less likely to buy it.
At least it explains quickly and clearly why a product is bad. 99.9% of people don't read the labels and don't know what most of the things are anyhow. So it's a good start in educating people and is working.
I have always told my kids to read the ingredients ( if you can even call it that sometimes) if there are more than 5 or 6 or you don't know what most of them are , Don't bloody eat it!
We are not health food freaks but be careful of how much processed food and sugar we eat.
As I commented earlier the problem is in the title and people need a bloody app for everything now. It used to be common knowledge and we were taught it at school. If you look at your graph what's it saying. Eat fresh fruit and veg. Eat some fish and meat. Eat some cereals and grains. It's not complicated.
Yes I understand you are talking about a bit more complicated than that but it would be a good start for most people.
Most informed generation but least educated.

tarquin1 said..
They are convinced in France nitrates in processed meats is causing higher rates of stomach cancer. Something about the nitrates being cooked and with proteins in the meats.

FormulaNova said..




Where do you get that info from? Sounds like BS to me I'm sorry.

psychojoe said..


My favourite thing about this comment is that it comes across as stress free.
The healthiest person on the planet with the strongest immune system can still be taken down by chronic stress, it interrupts immune pathways and throws a spanner in the works in more ways than one.
So I wish you a low stress life, a little stress is healthy.