Dia-Life: a great helper in diet formulation and control

Today Lifehacker will talk about the means to control his nutrition. It's almost mid-spring outside, summer is coming soon, which means you'll have to undress. The sadness is that plans for putting your body in order for many people remain plans. It is important to understand that changing your body is a complex process, in which there must be both physical activity and a well-structured diet. We write about sports constantly and steadily, and today we will tell you about one web service that can become a home for everyone who cares about what he eats.

It's about a service called Dia-Life. In short, it is a collection of online nutritional analysis and planning tools that also includes sections for people living with diabetes.

Calorie calculator

From the name it is clear that this tool is designed to calculate the calories and chemical composition of the human diet. The simplest use case is the beginning of the "path of correction", that is, the analysis of the current diet. We remember what our meals consist of, and then we enter these products in the search. To save time and improve the accuracy of the calculation, the search immediately selects ready-made product variants as you enter the first letters of the product name.

When a product is found, the user is prompted to indicate the amount of that product in the dish.

The sets of products can be combined into dishes, thus making up a personal menu, which can be further accessed from the corresponding tab “My dishes”.

A very important and useful feature of the tool is that in addition to the standard indicators of KBZhU (calories, proteins, fats, carbohydrates), the glycemic index is displayed for each product, and when composing a dish, the ratio of products with a high and low glycemic index is displayed. If the very concept of GI is not clear, then welcome to Wikipedia, well, in short, this is the main indicator that athletes, doctors and other people who approach the issue of nutrition professionally rely on when drawing up a diet. For greater clarity, the carbohydrate content of foods and dishes is additionally displayed in bread units.

Product card

When the idea of taking care of yourself and your diet comes to mind, the views on food completely change. The most frequent questions here are - is this product useful for me? Will it interfere with your diet? Will it fit into the current diet? The product catalog will answer this question, and quite comprehensively.

The search works in the same way as in the calorie calculator: we start to enter a product, select an option from the list of matches, click, and we see in front of us such a detailed summary, which includes in general all the information that may be needed when analyzing nutrition.

Like the calculator, the card displays important data on the glycemic index of the product, as well as the conversion of carbohydrates into bread units.

Activity

In addition to food, the service allows you to monitor physical activity and associated calorie consumption. The type of activity is selected from a pop-up list and then specified. It remains to set the time spent on this type of activity, after which the service will display the estimated calorie consumption.

Having made a weekly schedule of physical activities, you can adjust the current diet with fairly high accuracy.

Diary

And here is the most important tool for tracking progress. The user has access to several graphic calendars with certain functions: nutrition control with an indication of the recommended amount of calories consumed based on personal data indicated in the profile, weight control, and dietary accounting.

There are also tools for monitoring sugar levels for people with diabetes, but we will not talk about them in detail, since we do not understand this disease very much and consider Dia-Life primarily as a service to help you lose weight. It is only worth noting that in addition to tracking the level of carbohydrates and blood glucose, the user can create a report (example) based on the entered indicators, which will be very useful for a doctor who monitors a patient with diabetes.

My rations and meals

These sections contain all meals and meals, compiled by the user himself. It makes no sense to dwell on them in detail, since we have already talked about the generation of the dishes themselves.

Diets

So we got to the last section on the list, but far from the last in terms of usefulness. It is difficult to describe the emotions experienced by a person who is familiar with the mechanics of various diets and body chemistry in general, when faced with the quack "give up one product and lose weight." There are no magic weight loss techniques, but there are a bunch of medically sound methods based on various factors that contribute to changing the dynamics of weight gain / loss.

The list also includes highly therapeutic diets prescribed by nutritionists, low-carb and no-carb diets based on ketosis, mono diets, and diets based on reducing calorie intake. At the same time, what is important, for each diet there is a detailed description of the mechanism of its action, contraindications and the relevance of its use in certain situations.

Outcome

In general, Dia-life can be called an excellent helper and companion for everyone who nevertheless pondered the meaning of the saying “we are what we eat”. The tools presented as part of the service are quite enough to conduct a detailed analysis of the current diet and identify factors that impede weight loss. In combination with a large collection of diets and an encyclopedia of the chemical composition of foods, it turns out to be a fairly self-sufficient means for bringing your diet to a state where it is not food that will determine your image, but you will determine your appearance, choosing nutrition appropriate for your goals.