We all are on some form of diet or another, consiously or not. Could be a weight loss diet, weight gain diet, weight retention diet, or can’t weight to eat diet. Whatever the case, it just makes sense for us to know and keep good tabs on what we put into our bodies. I’ve been fortunate to have worked for tremendous food companies in my career. One of the best pieces if knowledge that I’ve picked up over the years is that a balanced diet is the key to a healthy diet. But how do you konw for sure how balanced your diet really is? We can estimate on the balance of a meal, and perhaps a day’s worth of meals…but are we completely forgetting essential vitamins and minerals every day simply because they are out of sight and out of mind. You might say, “well, I’m not too worried about it because I take a vitamin suppliment.” In that case, are you getting an overload in some vitamins, which can be just as bad as having deficiency in many cases? Seems a bit trivial doesn’t it?
Well, rest assured, there is hope; and the spreadsheet can help. You could set up a spreadsheet to allow you to enter your recipes and their nutritional profile. Then whenever you eat a meal, you could simply type in or use a data validation drowpdown list to select the recipe and automatically pull in the nutritional profile of that meal. Then you could track information such as vitamin, mineral, calorie, and carbohydrate intake with each meal. Then you could simply set the spreadsheet up to track the elements most important to you by week, month or even year. Granted it would take some time to create the nutritional profiles of each meal, its something that could have a phenomenal impact over your health over time so it actually well worth the effort. Who knows it might save your life.
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