Calorie-counting apps are becoming increasingly popular, but this new version is definitely ahead : so much so that it sticks to your teeth. It is not chewing gum, it is not a piece of food that has got stuck between your incisors, but an intelligent device that is attached to the teeth with a small patch: the device, designed by researchers at Tufts University, is placed on the teeth and communicates with a calorie counter app included in the program, to be kept on a PC or tablet or mobile phone instead. Information is processed based on what we actually eat: the app then updates itself with a wireless system connected to the dental patch, while the aforementioned patch records the correct number of calories, the amount of sugars, fats and cholesterol of everything we bring to the mouth. It can also be set to communicate the amount of salt or alcohol, but also all macro and micronutrients.

Nice is not it? So we know exactly what and how much we eat.
In my opinion no. In my opinion it is absurd for a number of reasons: the first is that it seems to have a police station in your mouth. I find it fair for anyone wanting to lose weight to have an idea of ​​what they are eating, don’t get me wrong . Before the calorie counter app, I encouraged those with weight problems, but also digestion problems, to use a diary to keep track of both food and calories. But already the counting of calories and macronutrients is a stressful practice , which must be abandoned as soon as possible in favor of a diet that we can intuitively follow by ourselves, with the right rules. This is because we can have different energy needs even from one day to the next, maybe eat more one day, and less the next. This self-regulation process can only be achieved by working on yourself, on your needs and on your sense of hunger: which is impossible if you are forced to record everything on an app.
If one day I’m not hungry, recording food on a calorie counter app and discovering that maybe they are 50 calories below my plan, may lead me to think: now I eat two almonds or a biscuit (for example: two almonds do not actually provide more than 15 -20 calories) so I’m good to go. Even if I don’t like it. Thus our sense of hunger and satiety goes to be blessed, since the control is always external, mental, and not instinctive.
Then imagine the stress that can come to have a round-the-clock control , for every bite you eat, through super advanced technology. It would be like having someone spying on us with every bite.
The pleasure of food is eliminated,continuing to consider it as a mere calculation of macronutrients. We think of food as something right or wrong, and our eating behavior as virtuous or not based on numbers.
The risk is to make us feel guilty, and to increase the need for particular foods, to make us feel more greedy.
Besides, the thin people don’t think so.

A curious documentary that appeared on Channel 4 , in England, followed for a week a thin woman, Anne Marie Martin , who, despite going to fast food even 4 times a week, is always fit and does not take a pound. About her metabolism? About the fact that maybe every night he gets up and runs for a marathon?
Apparently not. After doing all the tests before following her eating habits for a week, the researchers found that Anne Marie had an average metabolism for a woman her age . Mom and dance teacher for children, she is busy like all working mothers, but very lazy, forced to do more administrative work than a dance teacher: her colleges say that even to go to the bathroom she would call a taxi. She also eats cheese all day, she often indulges in a dessert and eats out without thinking about calories . The secret? The unconscious self-restraint that researchers discovered in Anne Marie: she doesn’t eat too much every day . There are days when she eats very little because she is simply not hungry.
The absence of guilt about food is her strategy of her unaware of her, which makes her satisfied when she has a more caloric meal, and allows her to feel her sense of hunger and eat less if she hasn’t wants.
Could he do this if he obsessively counted every piece of food? I would say no.