Your Home for Flavourful Nutrition

NutritionLogic is a personal project I've decided to share on the Web in the hope that contributions from others interested in great recipes, health, fitness and nutrition will improve the final result. I also hope sharing what I've learned will help others stay fit, trim and active without reducing meals to a mechanical exercise in chewing.

A few words on my educational and professional experience would probably be helpful to understand where my research is coming from. My undergraduate courses were varied (chemical engineering, biochemistry and kinesiology at a couple different universities) but they ultimately came together for me in a Masters of Engineering in Chemical Engineering with a specialty in Bio-engineering. I'm not a nutritionist or medical expert, but I can follow scientific papers and will attempt to use my background to explain findings I post here. My professional experience can be found at my LinkedIn profile, a brief summary being I am a software development manager and advisor with a particular interest in start-ups and small teams.

When I wasn't in school or at work during the last thirty years, I spent twenty years training in Hap Ki Do, a Korean martial art, to obtain a 4th Dan Black belt and Instructor ranking. This experience gave me good body awareness (useful for evaluating diets and exercises), and it taught me how to train and stay fit.  I've also done a lot of weight lifting and yoga over the years.

On the epicurean side, I have had a passion for food since childhood. As an adult I've traveled to many places and enjoyed their cuisine (France, Japan, Italy, the Canadian West Coast, Mexico, the Southern US and Southern India to name a few).  I've taken several different cooking courses and experimented with different styles on my own to create personalized recipes.

NutritionLogic brings all these disparate interests together in a single project. I am working to combine my scienctific, martial arts and software development knowledge with my love of great recipes to build tools that support my goals in health, fitness and food enjoyment.

I plan to extend the site capabilities to be useful to those who aren't developing the code (i.e. everyone other than me). Since this is a part-time project for a single developer I'm afraid I can't promise rapid progress but I hope your patience will be rewarded in the long run.

In the meantime I will share my discoveries with you on Blogger and at NutritionLogic. I hope you will be able to participate in the blog comments and with the diet, recipe and ingredient tools as they mature.  Please join me in a quest for the most delicious ways to maintain optimal health we can find. Hopefully, success will take a while because the journey should be more interesting than the destination.