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This decades “health woo”
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MLM cleanses and "Organic" foods.7
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Why is clean eating a health woo? Looking at my childhood diet 70 to 80'percent would be considered clean. I was mostly eating what my mom made. N most things where not processed or just little processed. I never Had a tv Dinner. I still eat this way as I don't like the taste of ready to eat food and convenience food
Mainly because there is no universally accepted definition of what "clean eating" is. It is whatever someone want to say it is. And people use the term to suite their own agendas. You have something in mind as to what it may mean but other may not, and likely would not, agree.16 -
Why is clean eating a health woo? Looking at my childhood diet 70 to 80'percent would be considered clean. I was mostly eating what my mom made. N most things where not processed or just little processed. I never Had a tv Dinner. I still eat this way as I don't like the taste of ready to eat food and convenience food
70 - 80% clean, or as other people would call it, a normal diet. "Clean eating" is, apart from not having a consistent definition of what constitutes a clean food, not having any of the "unclean" foods because they think they'd drop dead or get fat immediately or something.13 -
Why is clean eating a health woo? Looking at my childhood diet 70 to 80'percent would be considered clean. I was mostly eating what my mom made. N most things where not processed or just little processed. I never Had a tv Dinner. I still eat this way as I don't like the taste of ready to eat food and convenience food
The term is, and all the rules like "nothing in a package" or whatever, most of which make no sense and having nothing to do with the nutritional content of the food.
Also, the implicit claim (often explicit) that people are fat because they ate foods with "chemicals" instead of because they overate or that everything "processed" (which is a huge and varied category of food) is somehow high cal or low nutrient or has lots of added fat or sugar.
I mostly cook from whole foods, grew up mostly cooking from whole foods, and I even do other things that many so called "clean" eaters don't do, like source my meat and eggs from a local farm, get produce from local farms when in season and try to eat as locally and seasonally as possible from late spring through fall (I'm in Chicago so that does not carry through very late fall through early spring, I'm not going to give up fruits and veg for a large part of the year).
However, I don't call myself a clean eater, think that these preferences make my diet superior (it's just how I like to eat), or worry that I must avoid restaurants (tons of great local restaurants where I live) or buying an occasional lunch from SnapKitchen or wherever or be afraid of processed foods (which includes cheese, plain greek yogurt, smoked salmon, dried pasta, canned tomatoes (better out of season than whatever "fresh" shows up in the grocery store), so on).
It's also the all or nothing thing. One can have a healthful, nutrient dense diet and occasionally have a treat or consume some products that make cooking easier from time to time.12 -
I vote for hypothyroid. The ultimate fad disease. Just about everyone here claims they have it, and blame their weight problem on it.
I'm sans thyroid and I agree.
Thyroid only impacts your Resting Energy Expenditure ~5%. That's all people.
Thyroid behaving or not - eating more than you burn makes you fat.
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anti-GMO hysteria will go down in history as not just anti-science nonsense, but a fatal ideology that resulted in millions of unnecessary deaths.18
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Keto.9
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... I will even go as far as to say there is a male conspiracy to keep the symptomatic undiagnosed women in ill health struggling because of the general medical professions refusal to reconsider their own dictates'. ...
Yeah, we men are a real bunch of pigs, aren't we? This started out as a fun thread but quickly descended into nonsense and self-proclaimed "experts" clubbing people over the head with their "knowledge". And now, feminist politics. Whatever you people are smoking, I want some.24 -
I'd say ACV and Egg Fasts are the 2 things that define this year...I'm not sure about the decade. Maybe fasting in general. Intermittent, water, egg, etc.
What I have been noticing more lately is that people are not blaming weight gain on the right things. It's either too many carbs, some random disease, etc. I hate to be blunt, but it's because everyone eats TOO much. We as a society, put way too much importance on food. We celebrate with it, we gift it, restaurants serve WAY too much of it...we raise our kids to "clean their plates"...we value that "full" feeling.
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YepItsKriss wrote: »Food is probably one of the few things that connects us all as a species. We don't even like each other for just being human but throw an avatar up and talk about food and everyone has something to share.
It's not hard to understand why it's become the symbol of love caring and happiness as well as comfort.
I completely agree, and I'll add that I don't see any of these things as wrong. It's okay to celebrate with food, connect around it, enjoy feeling full, be fascinated by it, come up with all kinds of elaborate ways for cooking and presenting it, and do all kinds of fun things that involve food. It's a normal part of being a social animal and I don't see why we need to be ashamed of finding something so essential to being alive this pleasurable. People of all weights and sizes live on the same planet with the same food-related social rituals, which means it's possible to not be fat and still take part in all kinds of food-related stuff. Some have these mechanisms naturally, others have the opportunity to build them through strategies.
ETA and a side note: been a while, Kriss, glad you're back.8 -
Juicing diets?! How on earth do people do it????6
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I agree that this trend is a poor one but it certainly doesn't "cause" T2D. Nobody holds a gun to people's heads and make them go to those restaurants and eat those portions. The restaurants are only responding to market trends. One can always choose not to frequent those places. I don't personally.3 -
I vote for hypothyroid. The ultimate fad disease. Just about everyone here claims they have it, and blame their weight problem on it.
Except those like me who legitimately have hypothyroid/Hashimoto's. I've discovered that it really can have an impact on your overall health, since your thyroid largely controls your metabolism, among other things. Since I've started to get mine under control with my doctor's help, I've noticed I feel way better and I'm losing weight and keeping it relatively under control. Before I was diagnosed, I had gained about 55lbs since moving to Florida in 2011; I was diagnosed in 2014. I wasn't being the best eater, but the weight shouldn't have heaped on like that. Tons of bloodwork, then when it was discovered, my doctor freaked and said that I had been on the verge of some things shutting down.
Now, that being said, there are some people who go overboard when they don't really have a thyroid problem, and that bothers me. I have legit health issues from my thyroid, then there are legit lazy people who are just looking for an excuse, and, "Oh yeah, I totally have a bad thyroid!" It really grinds my gears.7 -
I agree that this trend is a poor one but it certainly doesn't "cause" T2D. Nobody holds a gun to people's heads and make them go to those restaurants and eat those portions. The restaurants are only responding to market trends. One can always choose not to frequent those places. I don't personally.
Somebody I work with bought a $100 pass to Olive Garden, all you can eat for two months. Here's eating two meals a day there. He's but even atoning for anything!2
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