What exactly is "Clean Eating"?

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  • northbanu
    northbanu Posts: 366 Member
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    I consider clean eating as a food with just one ingredient. For an example, Chicken, beef, tuna, spinach, lettuce, almonds, rice, potatoes, etc...

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    ????

    So chicken is "clean," and potatoes are "clean," but you make a chicken-potato stew and all of a sudden it's no longer clean?

    I think the argument would be thatif YOU make chicken-potato it's clean. If a corporation makes chicken potato stew it is unclean.

    Anyone noting the similarities between between "clean eating" and archaic religious food laws? And those laws are explained away in just as vague looping arguments.

    Look, "clean eating" is more based on feelings, and lifestyle than any real NEED to "eat clean". It's folks just hedging their bet, doing something in the hopes that it will matter. And every once in while a paper is written that ingredient "blah blah blah" causes cancer, and the "clean eaters" jump up and down, and give thanks and feel vindicated. But they will likely ignore the other study that exposes flaws in the previous study and just muddies up the water even more.

    "Clean Eating" Is the dietary equivalent of religious dogma. "Clean Eating" is dietary dogma.
  • beth4326
    beth4326 Posts: 19
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    My doctor defines it as avoiding anything with a label.
    thats a great explanation :-)
  • eric_sg61
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
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    http://www.healthylivingheavylifting.com/the-perils-of-clean-eating/
  • northbanu
    northbanu Posts: 366 Member
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    "Clean eating" is like porn vs art: It's hard to define, but you know it when you see it.



    Exactly!!! ^^^^^this^^^^^^

    Perfect simile as it's arbitrary nonsense, and such reasoning is laughed at by intelligent contemporaries and will be by future generations

    Yup, Sonofabeach nailed it.

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  • northbanu
    northbanu Posts: 366 Member
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    http://www.healthylivingheavylifting.com/the-perils-of-clean-eating/

    Cool chart from above article; (Population Overweight)

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  • Camo_xxx
    Camo_xxx Posts: 1,082 Member
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    Yes, so do lots of people, including me. That doesn't mean there's any rational reason to limit myself to the spices I can personally grow or gather, as you seemed to be suggesting.

    I was not suggesting anything of the sort, I was originally responding to the posters concern that spice mixes may contain fillers and I simply suggested If you grow your own you can control the content.

    However many folks could reasonably claim that their concern for their carbon foot print keeps them from buying a spice that was shipped half way around the world and they prefer the local farm to table approach. It's a simple personal choice some people make. Doesn't make them right or wrong. Just what they are into.
  • redheaddee
    redheaddee Posts: 2,005 Member
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    Clean eating means I wash my hands before I eat.
  • BekaBooluvsu
    BekaBooluvsu Posts: 470 Member
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    I was told it was washing your cookies before eating them.
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I think I love you!:smooched:
  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
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    Just eat foods that don't have T.V. commercials and you will be fine.

    Well, avocados have commercials. Thank god, because those things are nasty!
  • Aine8046
    Aine8046 Posts: 2,122 Member
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    Yes, it is :) We bake ourselves though... :)
  • Aine8046
    Aine8046 Posts: 2,122 Member
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    We also call it "perimeter shopping". If you only buy food walking along the perimeter of a typical grocery store (milk, meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruits), than it's "clean". I rarely get anything else. Maybe once every couple months we get some basic stuff from the isles (grains, salt, sugar, spices)... And we rarely go to restaurants since we do not like their food. But I am a very good cook and our family is spoiled I think :)

    Awesome! The bakery is on the perimeter. :bigsmile:
    Not in our grocery store :)

    And frozen foods (pizza, lasagna, ice cream).
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  • Aine8046
    Aine8046 Posts: 2,122 Member
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    We also call it "perimeter shopping". If you only buy food walking along the perimeter of a typical grocery store (milk, meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruits), than it's "clean". I rarely get anything else. Maybe once every couple months we get some basic stuff from the isles (grains, salt, sugar, spices)... And we rarely go to restaurants since we do not like their food. But I am a very good cook and our family is spoiled I think :)

    And so is the deli (with it's potato salad, cole slaw, fried chicken, seasoned potato wedges, deli meats,) sausages, hot dogs, ham, cheese spread, the butcher, cage fed eggs, hormone injected dairy, yogurt, cheese, refrigerator rolls (you know those lovely cresecent rolls in a cardboard tube) Cookie dough, packaged tortilla, and oh so many more of my favorite things.
    We barely go there either...
    Ok, agreed, perimeter shopping is a bad definition :) "Quasi-perimeter shopping" maybe?
  • Aine8046
    Aine8046 Posts: 2,122 Member
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    ????

    So chicken is "clean," and potatoes are "clean," but you make a chicken-potato stew and all of a sudden it's no longer clean?


    I think the argument would be thatif YOU make chicken-potato it's clean. If a corporation makes chicken potato stew it is unclean.
    When I make chicken-potato stew I know exactly what went in there. With the "corporation-made" stew I have no clue. And it usually tasted terrible.
  • jojokmack
    jojokmack Posts: 117
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    I heard this, which perfectly describes the concept to me...
    'If you can't kill it or pick it, then don't eat it :)
  • northbanu
    northbanu Posts: 366 Member
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    When I make chicken-potato stew I know exactly what went in there. With the "corporation-made" stew I have no clue.
    Read a label. Here's Hormel's BEEF stew ingredients: Beef Gravy (Water, Beef, Tomatoes [Water, Tomato Paste], Corn Flour, Salt, Modified Cornstarch, Caramel Color, Sugar, Flavoring), Potatoes, Beef, Carrots.

    Now, I'll give you "flavorings" but it seams pretty damn "real" to me.
    And it usually tasted terrible.
    Subjective, but I'll give you that one.
  • Aine8046
    Aine8046 Posts: 2,122 Member
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    When I make chicken-potato stew I know exactly what went in there. With the "corporation-made" stew I have no clue.
    Read a label. Here's Hormel's BEEF stew ingredients: Beef Gravy (Water, Beef, Tomatoes [Water, Tomato Paste], Corn Flour, Salt, Modified Cornstarch, Caramel Color, Sugar, Flavoring), Potatoes, Beef, Carrots.
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    Cornstarch? Caramel Color? Flavoring? Beef (which part of beef I wonder)?
    Doesn't sound good to me, sorry.
    But I absolutely agree with you - it's subjective...
  • northbanu
    northbanu Posts: 366 Member
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    When I make chicken-potato stew I know exactly what went in there. With the "corporation-made" stew I have no clue.
    Read a label. Here's Hormel's BEEF stew ingredients: Beef Gravy (Water, Beef, Tomatoes [Water, Tomato Paste], Corn Flour, Salt, Modified Cornstarch, Caramel Color, Sugar, Flavoring), Potatoes, Beef, Carrots.
    Cornstarch? Caramel Color? Flavoring? Beef (which part of beef I wonder)?
    Doesn't sound good to me, sorry.
    But I absolutely agree with you - it's subjective...

    Cornstarch.... I have some in my cupboard. It's been used for over 100 years. (Not the stuff in my cupboard) The only ingredient on my container of Argo brand cornstarch is: Corn Starch.
    Carmel Color... is burned carbohydrates, usually sugar. You can make it at home by burning some sugar. I do it all the time on accident.
    Beef... It's an animal. And it's tasty. Nearly EVERY part of it.
    Flavoring... Meh. I'll give you that one. But by law if it's MSG it has to be listed.
  • Camo_xxx
    Camo_xxx Posts: 1,082 Member
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    When I make chicken-potato stew I know exactly what went in there. With the "corporation-made" stew I have no clue.
    Read a label. Here's Hormel's BEEF stew ingredients: Beef Gravy (Water, Beef, Tomatoes [Water, Tomato Paste], Corn Flour, Salt, Modified Cornstarch, Caramel Color, Sugar, Flavoring), Potatoes, Beef, Carrots.
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    Cornstarch? Caramel Color? Flavoring? Beef (which part of beef I wonder)?
    Doesn't sound good to me, sorry.
    But I absolutely agree with you - it's subjective...
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    Don't forget the can itself. Many food cans are lined with BPA which many folks like to avoid as much as possible

    http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/bpa/faq-20058331


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  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
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    I heard this, which perfectly describes the concept to me...
    'If you can't kill it or pick it, then don't eat it :)

    Belladonna vs yogurt. I choose yogurt.
  • northbanu
    northbanu Posts: 366 Member
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    Don't forget the can itself. Many food cans are lined with BPA which many folks like to avoid as much as possible

    http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/bpa/faq-20058331
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    Worry about it if you want. I see why one would. But I don't.

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