Food, sleep, steps: Is tracking our health healthy?

By Serena Solomon of RNZ Gadgets allow us to track how much we eat, what we eat, our sleep and exercise but experts say they’re not always making us healthier. If you’ve ever gone down a calorie-counting rabbit hole , you will understand that it can get you results but it can also be exhausting, even dangerous. I dabbled in the keto diet to drop some of the baby weight I put on after my first child.

Going keto ( short for ketosis , a state where your body burns fat rather than glucose) involves restricting your carbohydrate intake to less than 10% of calories, about 60% of calories from fat and about 30% from protein. Each evening, I diligently planned my calories and macronutrients (fats, carbs and proteins) for the next day. My app allowed me to subtract calories burned through exercise so I began doing that too.

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