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Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and today we are going to talk about tracking your calorie intake and whether or not it's a good idea

and if it is a good idea to do how to do it correctly because that's incredibly important.

So this is a topic that I've seen a lot of debate around recently.

There's been a lot of people who demonize the process of tracking your calorie intake.

They say it's disorder.

They say it leads to disordered eating habits, et cetera.

And there are many people who are strong advocates for it.

And what I want to do today is talk about when tracking your food intake is appropriate.

And I'm going to use the word food intake when you hear me talk about tracking.

So anytime you hear me say tracking, I'm usually going to be referring to food and not calories.

And there's a reason behind this is when you're tracking what you're eating, you don't want to

just focus on calories.

You're going to go through all of this effort and learn nothing about your nutrition

because the important aspect of tracking is to learn about what you're eating. So if you track what

you're eating, so you put everything that you eat into an app. So that's what tracking is,

is you take the food that you're eating and you put it into an app to get information about

what you're eating. And what it does is it gives you information about what you're eating.

It tells you how many calories you're eating, how much protein you're eating, how much fiber,

how much magnesium, how much vitamin C, iron, etc.

And this process is incredibly helpful for getting feedback about your nutrition.

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