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I thought negative reactions to food can take days to play out, and potentially a week or two to completely resolve. People who are gluten sensitive, for exampl

I thought negative reactions to food can take days to play out, and potentially a week or two to completely resolve. People who are gluten sensitive, for example, exhibit the immune reaction for weeks after exposure. This application presents symptoms as tied to the day of consumption. This is why some nutritionists talk about a strict 30 day elimination diet. For 30 days eat nothing but completely innocuous foods: no dairy, eggs, nightshades, vegetable oils, or grains. If two or three weeks in you feel a lot better or certain symptoms have subsided, then you need to more systematically try to find what the problem is.

jack-r-abbit 13y ago
Even if things take days to pop up and/or go away you still need to keep track of it. So even if you did you 30 day thing and felt fine and wanted to start adding new foods, you still want to track it. This app doesn't tie symptoms to consumption. It seems to just give you an easy platform to log what/when you ate and how/when you felt. Patterns will emerge organically eventually. You can speed that up by taking a systematic approach to what you eat. But you still need to track it.