General guidance for eating with a health condition, and how to get ClapDiet to
do the specific part for you.
Start with the condition, not with a list
Every condition in the catalog carries its own guidance, written for it rather
than assembled from a generic template. Open it — Health Conditions on the
web, the Conditions card on the phone's home screen — and you get:
That is the specific answer for your condition. What follows is the part that is
the same whatever you have.
Three habits that do most of the work
Know which nutrient is yours
Almost every dietary restriction reduces to a small number of nutrients. Sodium
for hypertension. Potassium and phosphate for kidney disease. Purines for gout.
Oxalate for calcium-oxalate stones. Find yours on the condition's own page and
learn to read for it.
Read the label, not the front of the pack
For packaged food, the serving size on the label is the number everything else
depends on. ClapDiet stores nutrients per 100 g, so two products are directly
comparable in the app even when their packs are not.
Ask a professional the questions the app cannot answer
ClapDiet does not know your stage, your last set of bloods, or what your
nephrologist said last month. Your doctor, dietitian and pharmacist do. The
clinician report exists to make that conversation shorter, not to replace it.
Where the app does the work for you
Food ratings
Twenty-one conditions carry a per-condition rating on every food. Look at a food's
page and you see how it rates for yours, on the one-to-five scale where one is
avoid and three is a genuine neutral.
Diet modes
Six modes plus standard. A condition rules some of them out; the condition's
Modes tab says which, and why it matters is on the mode's own page.
Medication cautions
Add your medicines and the interaction layer checks foods against them. See
Medication Tracking.Logging
Tracking what you eat is what turns any of this from advice into a picture of
what you actually do. See
Daily Food Logging.When two conditions disagree
They will. Kidney disease wants potassium down; hypertension wants it up.
Osteoporosis wants calcium; kidney stones want it timed with meals rather than
avoided.
ClapDiet does not silently pick a winner. Add both and you get both sets of
guidance, both sets of ratings, and both sets of cautions, each labelled with the
condition it came from. The judgement about which takes priority is a clinical
one and it stays with your clinician — which is exactly the conversation
Clinician Report is built for. It collects your conditions, medications,allergies, current interactions and recent labs onto one printable page.
A note on eliminating things
Several of the core-therapy conditions — celiac disease, food allergy,
eosinophilic esophagitis, PKU, galactosemia, hereditary fructose intolerance —
work by removing something completely. Removal is only half of it. Every one of
those conditions carries an eating pattern about replacing what you removed, for
the reason that a diet built by subtraction runs short of something eventually.
Read that pattern on the condition's page; it is there for you, not as
boilerplate.
Remember: This is general guidance. Your individual needs may differ. Always
follow personalised medical advice.
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