The Role of Technology in Personalized Nutrition for Diabetics

Diabetes is a condition that occurs when the blood sugar levels are very high and the insulin levels are insufficient or if the body doesn’t respond properly to the effects of insulin. 

It is a common condition that affects people of all age groups and according to the National Diabetes Statistics Report, 11.6% of the US population had diabetes. The report also revealed that the number went up to 29.2% for those aged 65 years or older.

As a result, Diabetes management has become extremely necessary and to properly manage the blood glucose levels of patients, a proper diet is a must. However clinical studies have revealed that blood glucose levels tend to change differently in different people while following the same standardized meals. This is a major issue as we can’t follow a one-size-fits-all approach for diabetes management.

This is a major issue for dieticians and nutritionists to provide efficient and timely service if they are helping multiple people in managing nutrition and keeping a proper watch on blood sugar levels.

‍The need for personalized technology in managing Diabetes

Thankfully technology offers a solution for providing personalized nutrition to people based on genomes, gut microbiome, gut transit time, insulin sensitivity as these factors vary from person to person. 

• To achieve glycemic control for people with diabetes, individualized diet, recommendations, and products are necessary. This ensures people manage diabetes in a better way by following an amazing diet that suits them and get proper feedback to ensure they stay on track.
• A variety of online tools are available that can help to keep a track of progress, maintain a food journal, sync data with their wearables for keeping a track of exercises and also to stay in touch with the nutritional experts.

However, most of these tools provide just one or a few of these features and people have to refer to multiple sites or tools and this especially becomes difficult for businesses that offer nutritional counseling to their clients.

New startups make managing personalized nutrition for Diabetics efficient

1. A number of startups have identified the huge potential personalized nutrition has and they are coming up with software that helps businesses run and manage all their work, while offering nutritional counseling to clients in a single place, thus removing the headache involved with managing all the data on WhatsApp, excel sheets, emails and other apps and sites.
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2. Managing the diet plan and keeping a track of their progress isn't an easy thing to do and things get extremely difficult if you want to scale your business and keep track of a large number of clients. These apps have been developed to tackle this issue for businesses by proving a cloud-based solution for nutritionists and dieticians. 
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3. Managing excel sheets and contacting clients individually on WhatsApp isn’t efficient and even for the clients, it isn’t ideal as they might have to trod through messages and emails to find the diet plan or other important information.

‍A suite of features to streamline diabetes management

Dieticians and nutritionists

They have to be very active when it comes to engaging their clients and ensuring people are properly following the advice and staying on track to achieve the desired goals. Personalized diet and nutrition management apps ensure all the necessary features are present in a single place which makes life easier for both businesses and clients.

Live Chat and Video Calls

‍Even if the clients are living in other parts of the world or are traveling, it’s easy to get in touch with them either on chat or hopping on a quick video call.

Progress Tracking‍

Real time tracking of goals is an extremely important feature that keeps dieticians and nutritionists aware if any client needs extra attention and also to have an overview of the overall progress of all the clients.

Reminders

‍It’s natural for people to lag behind because of work and other things going on in their life. Businesses can motivate the clients and make sure the reminders bring them back on track.

Food & Mood Journal

‍It is extremely important for a business to know what their clients are eating and how they are feeling. Diabetes-friendly foods and mood journal is an extremely important tool in the app that helps businesses in keeping a track of the progress and to spot if there are any areas where the clients need help.

Wearables Integration

‍Wearables have become an integral part of our life and they are extremely important when it comes to managing diabetes. This feature ensures that businesses have accurate health data of their clients.

A powerful pocket assistant for Personalized Nutrition for Diabetics

• These apps are a brilliant solution for businesses to keep their clients motivated and make sure they stay on track with diet planning, calendar management, personalized attention and this results in a lot of word-of-mouth promotion by happy and satisfied clients.
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• It gives businesses the flexibility to create a customized diet plan or regime for clients as every client is a unique individual and every client has different dietary preferences which needs to be catered to. 
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• The flexibility doesn’t end here, the Android and iOS app also lets businesses communicate with clients through apps like Zoom and Google Meet and if any client prefers using WhatsApp for communication, that’s also integrated in the app.

Client-facing apps for businesses

The most prominent feature provided by a number of companies that focus on providing tech solutions for nutritionists and dieticians is a client-facing app that helps the businesses in managing nutrition and ensuring the clients stay focused and are always a click away from getting in touch with you or to access information about their diet plans or to keep a track on their progress. These companies also allow white-labeling solutions for the apps so that businesses can build their brand more efficiently and grow.

This has created a really compelling solution for businesses by harnessing personalized technology to help nutritionists and dieticians manage their clients in an extremely efficient way, that allows to scale and help people in managing diabetes all across the globe and while doing this they also have ensured that the pricing is affordable for businesses.