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MealCoach team

Makers of MealCam

We build MealCam, an iPhone meal-pacing coach designed to make eating rhythm visible without calorie counting or food logging.

Most recent articles by MealCoach team

Whiteboard summary of Casey Means’s Good Energy, illustrating the book’s ideas about cellular energy, metabolism and daily habits.

Book summaries7 min read

Good Energy Book Summary: What to Keep, What to Question

Good Energy by Casey Means with Calley Means: the metabolic-health idea, the 93% statistic, glucose monitors, and everyday habits, with evidence in context.

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Whiteboard illustration summarizing Michael Moss's Hooked, with panels on food design, reward cues, possible consequences, and practical food-environment choices.

Book summaries6 min read

Hooked by Michael Moss: How Food Giants Shape What We Eat

Michael Moss's Hooked shows how food companies shape cravings and repeated eating, with research on ultra-processed diets, addictive behavior, and industry influence.

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Whiteboard summary of The Every-Other-Day Diet by Krista Varady with Bill Gottlieb: alternating Down Days and Up Days, practical habits, potential benefits, challenges and suitability.

Book summaries6 min read

Scientists Tested the Every-Other-Day Diet for a Year. Here’s What Happened

A plain-English summary of The Every-Other-Day Diet by Krista Varady with Bill Gottlieb: the book’s rules, later trials and practical trade-offs.

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The Longevity Diet by Valter Longo: plant-centered meals, changing protein needs, meal timing, food quality, periodic fasting-mimicking diets, and what human research shows.

Book summaries10 min read

The Longevity Diet Book Summary: 7 Lessons on Food and Fasting

A plain-English look at ProLon, the five-day fasting-mimicking protocol, cell renewal, and Valter Longo's research.

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The Telomere Effect by Elizabeth Blackburn and Elissa Epel: protective chromosome caps, stress responses, sleep, movement, nourishing food, and supportive surroundings. Longer telomeres alone do not prove longer life.

Book summaries8 min read

The Telomere Effect Book Summary: 7 Useful Lessons

A plain-English summary of The Telomere Effect by Elizabeth Blackburn and Elissa Epel: seven lessons about habits, stress, and the limits of an aging marker.

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Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker: sleep supports health, body clock and sleep pressure, overnight brain activity, effects of short sleep, a regular sleep window, and habits that make sleep easier.

Book summaries7 min read

Why We Sleep Book Summary: 6 Ideas Worth Taking to Bed

A plain-English summary of Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker: the useful parts, the overhyped parts, and one thing to try tonight.

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Book summaries8 min read

12 Things to Eat and Do Every Day. Most People Miss Number 1.

A plain-English summary of How Not to Die by Dr. Michael Greger

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Six-panel visual summary of The Pleasure Trap: ancient drives, modern food, taste adaptation, and making healthy choices easier

Book summaries7 min read

The Pleasure Trap: Why Healthy Food Tastes Boring (and the 3-Week Fix)

A visual summary of Douglas Lisle and Alan Goldhamer’s book: why cravings aren’t a character flaw, how tastes can change, and ways to make healthier choices easier.

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Visual book summary of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr.

Book summaries7 min read

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: 7 Lessons From Dr. Esselstyn’s Book

A visual book summary of Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr.’s plant-based program.

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MealCoach App Store artwork showing the complete MealCam pace-feedback screen

Eating habits11 min read

You Eat Too Fast. Catch It Before the Plate Is Empty.

Why rushed eating is so hard to notice, why most slow-eating advice feels like homework, and how MealCam gives you a gentle cue mid-meal.

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