Category: Personalized Nutrition
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For most of its modern history, food deemed healthy came with a tradeoff: it might be good for you, but it probably wouldn’t taste very good, and it would almost certainly require discipline. Matt Barnard thinks that framing is the real failure of the food system. “If health requires discipline, it will never be the…
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Last year, I used a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) for the first time, and it completely changed how I eat. After a couple of weeks using an over-the-counter Stelo CGM, I learned that sugary snacks shoot my blood sugar into the stratosphere, salads and veggies keep it at a manageable level, and light exercise, even…
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Back in 2017, I wrote a story exploring the idea of personalized food profiles. The piece explored whether, someday, we might walk into restaurants, shop at the grocery store, or have dinner at a friend’s house and be able to communicate our food preferences and dietary restrictions in advance, shaping our entire meal journey accordingly.…
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If you’ve been diagnosed with a metabolic health issue, you might have used a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) at some point to track the impact of your food intake on your blood sugar. However, as of March 2023, only 2.4 million people used a CGM in the U.S., and because of the relatively small adoption…
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