Contact Dr Greger s Daily Dozen Support

I wanted to tweak my diet healthier without doing diet-y things. So far this app is really helping me do that. I still eat some processed food but less of it because I’m filling up on produce. I love that the app is free and ad-free. It works smoothly once you figure out a few of its quirks, like, you need to check the boxes from right to left or they will all fill in at once. There’s a “today” button at top you need to use to select the date every morning, it doesn’t jump to the current day automatically. On my iPhone (a Max) I can’t see all 12 things at once, so I wish the app would float the things you still need to eat to the top, would make it a lot easier to plan the rest of your meals that day. I also kind of wish I could edit the list, I definitely get enough liquids every day without having to track, and the spices entry is a bit silly (“season your food,” um, duh?). It would be easier to track things I do need to track if the list were shorter and could fit on my screen.

A lot of nice features were added to the app (progress tracking, the ability to check off your servings from the main screen, etc.), but at the expense of some of the app’s ease of use. For one I think each item of the daily dozen now takes up too much room. You have to scroll more to see all of the Dozen, whereas before you could get a much better overview of your Dozen (and quicker navigation to each item). And while the addition of metric weight measurements is nice, it shouldn’t be the default setting every time you open the information window of a category. How many people are weighing their food as opposed to measuring its volume? At the least the app should remember your most recent setting (metric or imperial) so you don’t have to keep switching it every time. All of this means that the app takes a little longer to use, which I’m not a fan of. When you use a daily checklist you want to be able use it quickly as possible (with as few taps and scrolls as possible). (I also personally preferred the percentage progress bar to the fractional progress bar. That’s may just be my preference though.) So again, nice new features, but the user experience went down a little for me. I preferred the simplicity of the previous version of the app, and wish that some of it could be implemented back in (without losing the nice new features).

I love this app... but changes I would make are these... Please make it so we can see our past. It would be nice to see how we are doing from our start. Maybe make it so we can “friend” others and invite others to this app. Please make it so we can go back and add something to the previous day if we forgot (we forget sometimes :) Tomatoes and Zucchini are both fruit and vegetables. (I may have missed other foods that have more than one category). That should be addressed. Can you add more variety of ideas of what to eat and maybe some links to recipes (I know BOSH has videos. But maybe a link?). All of that said. I actually GAINED weight using this app. So that was not so great as I needed to lose. I believe it was the grains. To workout as much as necessary to outweigh the grains is very hard for me. I live in northern US and I have arthritis. Even working out every day in accordance with your app I still gained 7 pounds. I will NOT be eating the grains for now. I hope you are able to account for this issue and help others like me. (I do LIKE grains and would love to eat them!). Thank you soooo much for this app! I will Continue to use it no matter what (just very little grains).