What is eating healthy?

TwinkieDong

I hear the term eating clean or dirty, I can assume eating healthy is veggies/fruits/meat, and dirty is candy/sodas/and chips? Please explain

ctpeace

You'll hear many responses from those who are very passionate about small details, but basically, yes, fresh is better than boxed/canned and stuff that is designed (not grown) to never spoil. If you go with fresh more often, sodium and sugar will stay in check a lot more easily.

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TwinkieDong

anyone else?

Confuzzled4ever

To me.. it means reducing additives, reducing chemicals and getting back to nature. Why buy shredded cheese when I can get the additive free block of it and shred it myself? (if they didn't add the checmial it would stick together just like yours does at home) I am a huge believer that food causes and cure at least 90% of diseases. We create our own health problems by adding sugar, salt, chemical, man made stuff into our foods and then eating a tremendous amount of them. A trace of arsenic, such as that found naturally in some foods, will not harm you pulling that out concentrating it and injecting into something else to make ti "taste better" will. Since you will get more of it per serving and eat more of it overall. Better example is mercury. It occurs naturally in some things.. and isn't harmful to us.. concentrate it and put it in a needle.. want to eat that??

It's eating fresh raw whole foods that are pretty much as nature intended. Why does granola need sugar or food coloring or any number of other things cereal manafactures put in it. *think*.. sugar is addictive.. we like it.. we eat *more* of what we like. same goes for fat and grease.. we like it.. A good resturant chef will add sugar or salt to a lot of things to make his patrons like his food better and come back. It's good business..