A balanced diet is the first and foremost step to a healthy life. However, the average American diet is far from balanced, as evidenced by an average Healthy Eating Index score of only 5-60% over the past few decades. MyNiche aims to raise awareness about the current state of the American diet and provides a practical scientific tool to help the public achieve better nutrition.
In fact, achieving a balanced diet can be quite simple, as a healthy diet doesn’t need to be as strict as a medical prescription. It can include a variety of ingredients based on your health condition, culture, and preferences. Furthermore, the USDA Healthy Eating Index permits 6 to 17% of your daily calorie intake to come from personal choices.
Just ensure your meals meet the nutritional requirements based on your chromosomal sex, age, body weight, height, and activity level. Many Americans consume excess calories daily, but their meals often lack essential nutrients, negatively affecting their quality of life and contributing to disorders (see Our Philosophy).
So, how can you tell if your meal choices are healthy, balanced, and meet nutritional requirements? MyNiche’s isotopic hair (nail) testing helps determine if your meal choices are balanced and suggests what to eat more or less of.
MyNiche’s client portal (see screenshots below) offers personalized dietary guidelines and a self-tracker for various needs, such as weight management, moderation of sugars and fats for obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases, vegetarianism, low-carb diets, pregnancy, lactation, infant weaning, and proactive nutrition tracking for everyone.