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Clean Eating
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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.9 -
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..2 -
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.
I wish people would understand that educating themselves about what they're eating is far better than being scared of things they can't pronounce and can't be bothered to carefully research.7 -
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...2 -
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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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.1 -
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!0 -
Ready2Rock206 wrote: »Means whatever you want it to mean... Depends on who you ask.
Sad but true...0 -
LindaGraziano1 wrote: »Look at the ingredients! !! If you can't read it, don't eat it!!!!
What if you are illiterate?0 -
LindaGraziano1 wrote: »Look at the ingredients! !! If you can't read it, don't eat it!!!!
What if you are illiterate?
Natural selection at work2 -
sunnybeaches105 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!0 -
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.0 -
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?2 -
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...1 -
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.3 -
Hey guys...it's just a saying!!! Didn't think it would cause such a stir!!!! So sorry1
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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.1 -
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.1 -
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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.2
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