The Cal Count io Editorial Team

Cal Count io is written and maintained by a small editorial team that combines a software background — we built the app you're using — with several years of self-directed study in nutrition science, behavior change, and consumer-health publishing. We are not physicians or Registered Dietitians. Where an article touches on a medical condition, medication, or a clinical decision, we explicitly say so and direct you to a qualified healthcare professional.

Every nutrition article we publish is built from primary sources, in this order of preference: peer-reviewed research indexed on PubMed (we cite the abstract page so you can verify the claim and dig deeper); government and intergovernmental guidance — the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, USDA FoodData Central, FDA labeling rules, the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, and the WHO's nutrition guidance; major medical organizations' position statements from the American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association, and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; and reputable secondary sources — Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic — only when the primary evidence agrees and we want a more readable summary.

We do not cite blog posts, marketing pages, or social-media health influencers as evidence. If a claim only appears in those places, it doesn't make our articles. We don't write miracle claims, we don't push supplements, and we don't accept payment for editorial coverage.

We refresh articles on roughly a 12-month cycle, and immediately whenever major guidelines change, a high-quality systematic review supersedes the evidence we cited, or a reader catches a specific factual error. The publish date and last-updated date appear at the top of every article so you can see how current the content is.

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