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Re: Do vegans need more protein ?
I LOVE chatting about plant-based protein as it's an area of expertise (and one that I apply daily as an OCR athlete). In general, vegans should aim for about 10% higher protein than their matched controls, but it depends on the type of protein you include. Soy and wheat gluten are absorbed as well as meat (>95%), pulses and grains are absorbed at 80-90% efficiency, and all other plant foods with protein are absorbed at 50-60%.
If you are an older adult, pregnant, or an athlete, your protein needs will be higher than standard recommendations.
In general, it's helpful to aim for at least 1 g of protein per kg of healthy body weight as an adult. For athletes, it depends on the sport and how well "trained" you are (new athletes need more protein to build muscle). For my sport, which combines both endurance and strength, I'd aim for a protein intake around 1.5 g per kg. This is easy to obtain since athletes eat A LOT of calories.
The only other key message is to divide your protein throughout the day to maximize absorption. Most vegans I work with lack protein at breakfast or are consuming amounts that are too small.
Happy to answer any other questions you may have on this topic!
Re: Search diary entries for food
Well I am a software developer and it's not a lot of work. And it's a paid product, so that's not an excuse for not having such a basic, essential feature. Everything has to already be organized in a database; in order to display a diary day they have to do a search on the date; searching on a diary entry isn't very different.
It's a 1 pot of coffee project, as we say.
Re: Do vegans need more protein ?
Protein from meat is more available than proteins from plants. They are easier to access and digest. You might digest >90% of protein from meats but more like 70-90% from plant sources.
Hypothetically, if a plant food had the same amount of protein and the same amino acid profile as a meat source you wouldn't get quite as much protein out of it for your body to use.
Re: Import myfitnesspal to Cronometer
I just switched over from MFP today and I'm blown away by Cronometer. I'm never touching MFP again, unless it's to import my data into Cronometer 
I'd put this as a 5/10 priority for me (and probably most users) as history is in the past and this app helps us move forward. Cheers!
Brewji
Re: Getting all the recommended daily vitamins and minerals
Hi suze4,
Choline is one of our newest "essential" vitamins - it made the list around 1997. I think because it's a bit newer on the scene, it is less well known supplement manufacturers often do not include choline. We know that choline is plays many important roles in our body, and if we don't get enough we can experience liver dysfunction. However, we do not have good estimates of how much choline generally healthy people consume. There is an adequate intake (AI) for choline rather than a recommended dietary allowance (RDA) because we need more research to determine adequate levels with more confidence. TMI? I have a special place in my heart for choline 
Many other water-soluble vitamins, like B12, are generally thought to have little or no toxicity symptoms because whatever you don't use is removed in the urine. While you are not getting extra benefit from these high levels, the high numbers might make a supplement seem like more bang for your buck when you are deciding which one to buy in the supplement aisle.
Molybdenum is a trace mineral for which we generally do not have a lot of data for the amounts in the foods in our database. Your intake may be higher than it appears in Cronometer, simply because we do not know the value of molybdenum in these foods.
Best,
Re: Cronometer not syncing exercise from Apple Health
Same issue. Seems like there is a workaround suggested, until the fix is issued:
I found a temporary fix. The issue seems to be caused by syncing of workouts and in fact the sync works for each new day until a workout is completed and tries to sync. As a workaround you can set the option “import workouts and active energy as a single entry” under the Apple health Integration settings.
Re: Import myfitnesspal to Cronometer
I would like to add my voice for this feature as well. I have several years of data on MFP.
Re: Add supplements to repeat daily
Hi Daya,
You can add your supplements in your diary to keep track. If we don't have your supplements in the public database, you can create a custom food for each of them.
You can also create a recipe which contains all your daily supplements so that you can add them to your diary all in one go - it really helps save time!
I hope you are on your way to feeling better soon.
Web calendar: week start on Monday
I'm from Europe. Workdays start on Mondays, is it possible with a setting to change the calendar in the web app, so not Sundays starts the weeks?
Mattias