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Clean Eating

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  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    LindaGraziano1 wrote: »
    Look at the ingredients! !! If you can't read it, don't eat it!!!!

    can you pronounce all the chemicals in an apple?

    I can pronounce cyanide but I wont't eat it..
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    StealthHealth wrote: »
    LindaGraziano1 wrote: »
    Look at the ingredients! !! If you can't read it, don't eat it!!!!

    I've got a degree in chemistry and worked in a lab for 23 years. I can pronounce 99% of the stuff in the Sigma- Aldrich Chemical catalogue. Food labels are not a problem for me.

    This is literally the best post I've ever seen on this site. I may be a bit partial though...
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,150 Member
    StealthHealth wrote: »
    LindaGraziano1 wrote: »
    Look at the ingredients! !! If you can't read it, don't eat it!!!!

    I've got a degree in chemistry and worked in a lab for 23 years. I can pronounce 99% of the stuff in the Sigma- Aldrich Chemical catalogue. Food labels are not a problem for me.

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  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,806 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    LindaGraziano1 wrote: »
    Look at the ingredients! !! If you can't read it, don't eat it!!!!

    Why are people proud of their inability to sound words out? I will never understand that.

    Dictionary.com has a little speaker next to the word when you look it up that *gasp* sounds the word out for you. It, like, SAYS THE WORD FOR YOU!!!

    It's an internet miracle. :)
  • ToxDocAR
    ToxDocAR Posts: 49 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    LindaGraziano1 wrote: »
    Look at the ingredients! !! If you can't read it, don't eat it!!!!

    Why are people proud of their inability to sound words out? I will never understand that.

    Now that's funny!
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,035 Member
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    Means whatever you want it to mean... Depends on who you ask.

    Sad but true...
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,035 Member
    LindaGraziano1 wrote: »
    Look at the ingredients! !! If you can't read it, don't eat it!!!!


    What if you are illiterate?
  • sunnybeaches105
    sunnybeaches105 Posts: 2,831 Member
    J72FIT wrote: »
    LindaGraziano1 wrote: »
    Look at the ingredients! !! If you can't read it, don't eat it!!!!


    What if you are illiterate?

    Natural selection at work
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,035 Member
    sunnybeaches105 wrote: »
    J72FIT wrote: »
    LindaGraziano1 wrote: »
    Look at the ingredients! !! If you can't read it, don't eat it!!!!


    What if you are illiterate?

    Natural selection at work

    Ha!
  • alyssa_rest
    alyssa_rest Posts: 276 Member
    edited July 2016
    I have been guilty of using that term. For me, it meant eating a balanced diet. Does it mean the same to every individual? No. But, if I have the option of making a homemade meal or buying it frozen, I would prefer the homemade because I know exactly what I'm adding. It's a personal preference. I try to eat a good/recommended portion of protein, carbs and fats at every meal. Hence, why "clean eating" is definitely not the correct terminology for what I have previously used it for. I've since changed my wording. Others are gun-ho about the word clean eating and believe it to be a strict diet based off they believe is true. We could have this argument for daysssss and I don't think anyone would come up with a scientific definition because it is different for everyone.

    Edited for spelling error.
  • extra_medium
    extra_medium Posts: 1,525 Member
    LindaGraziano1 wrote: »
    Look at the ingredients! !! If you can't read it, don't eat it!!!!

    How about taking a few minutes to learn what those ingredients are, how to pronounce them, and then decide if you need to avoid them or not instead?
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,035 Member
    alyssa_rest wrote: »
    We could have this argument for daysssss and I don't think anyone would come up with a scientific definition because it is different for everyone.

    Because there is none...
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    StealthHealth wrote: »
    LindaGraziano1 wrote: »
    Look at the ingredients! !! If you can't read it, don't eat it!!!!

    I've got a degree in chemistry and worked in a lab for 23 years. I can pronounce 99% of the stuff in the Sigma- Aldrich Chemical catalogue. Food labels are not a problem for me.

    You get to eat all the foods that the rest of us simpletons can't eat.
  • lilligraz22
    lilligraz22 Posts: 183 Member
    Hey guys...it's just a saying!!! Didn't think it would cause such a stir!!!! So sorry
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    LindaGraziano1 wrote: »
    Hey guys...it's just a saying!!! Didn't think it would cause such a stir!!!! So sorry

    Many people use that as a measure by which to decide the "value" of foods. That's the reason it got so much attention.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,806 Member
    LindaGraziano1 wrote: »
    Hey guys...it's just a saying!!! Didn't think it would cause such a stir!!!! So sorry

    And, hopefully, you've learned it's a wrong saying. :)
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    We need more cowbell!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCd0OjjCz88
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    LindaGraziano1 wrote: »
    Hey guys...it's just a saying!!! Didn't think it would cause such a stir!!!! So sorry

    Many people use that as a measure by which to decide the "value" of foods. That's the reason it got so much attention.

    And many others use it as a way to feel somehow superior to the unwashed masses who eat "unclean."

    Whatever the heck that means. ;)
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