what exactly is to "eat clean"?

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  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    There is a difference between naturally occuring chemicals and those that are extracted, concentrated and reintroduced into foods. example: Arsenic that occurs naturally in a food will not harm you.. extract that arsenic concentrate it and give it to someone..no thanks right??..

    I'm with you on the Oreos. I used to love them, then I stopped eating a lot of processed foods, and now they taste like chemical cardboard. A little sad, but also better for me. On the other hand, Kashi oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are delish!

    There are people that always come onto threads about healthy eating and dispute it. This is done by insulting you, your belief systems, your education, etc. Bottom line is, not everyone has to agree. I love what eating clean has done for my health and my body, so I'm sticking with it and will encourage others to try it out.

    I agree that insults are unwarranted, but shouldn't factually incorrect statements be corrected?

    For example: the idea that arsenic in nature is different from arsenic elsewhere. Arsenic is quite simply a metallic element, equally poisonous whether it's from a fruit (not that it naturally occurs in fruits) or a laboratory vial. Cyanide, which is probably what the poster was thinking of, is the same way.

    The idea that you can ingest cyanide because you find it "in nature"... I guess from fruits or fungi, is flat out false. The only difference is the dosage.

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/05/030514080833.htm

    Someone should tell those people that they can't get cyanide poisoning from raw foods, lol.

    ^ This

    No one's belief system was attacked in this thread. Also, when did nutrition develop into a belief system?
  • escapeartist90210
    escapeartist90210 Posts: 56 Member
    In my opinion, don't over stress the quality of the food and just chill-lax. Take it easy dude, you don't have to eat 100% clean to lose weight, I know this from personal experience in the past. However, it helps if you do. Try to lay low on the junk and have wholesome meals.
  • dsalveson
    dsalveson Posts: 306 Member
    There is a difference between naturally occuring chemicals and those that are extracted, concentrated and reintroduced into foods. example: Arsenic that occurs naturally in a food will not harm you.. extract that arsenic concentrate it and give it to someone..no thanks right??.. The point is.. We don't know the true affects of *better living through chemicals* other then an increase in disease, which may or may not be linked to processed foods, depending on what studies you choose to believe. I'm in the camp that believes food is the cause and cure of most diseases. So I choose to eat in a manner that suits my beleifs. Clean eating is not a belief system. It's simply putting a name to eating the way our grandparents ate. It's eating foods as they were intended to be eaten. People alter it to suit their own beleifs. .which is fine.. but the nuts and bolts of it is to eat fresh raw unprocessed whole foods. It doesn't mean you can't eat a cookie.. that you make yourself using real food. It does, however, take store bought oreos out of the equation. (they are gross anyway!! I think I'm the only person on the planet who hates oreos. LOL)

    Basically a lot of people who claim to know everything will tell you all different things about clean eating versus not clean eating. The best thing for you to do is look it up yourself and make your own decision based off what you find out. You're the only one who can decide what is right for you and what you are willing able able to sacrafice (or what needs to be changed in a dietary sense) to meet your health and nutrition goals.

    I'm with you on the Oreos. I used to love them, then I stopped eating a lot of processed foods, and now they taste like chemical cardboard. A little sad, but also better for me. On the other hand, Kashi oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are delish!

    There are people that always come onto threads about healthy eating and dispute it. This is done by insulting you, your belief systems, your education, etc. Bottom line is, not everyone has to agree. I love what eating clean has done for my health and my body, so I'm sticking with it and will encourage others to try it out.

    Do you think Kashi choc chip cookies are unprocessed?

    Did I say they were completely unprocessed? No.
    Are they less processed than others? Yes.

    ETA: And out of this post all you took was I said Kashi cookies taste good? :huh:

    How so? a batter is made and then baked. Compare Oreos to Kashi, which has more ingredients?

    http://www.kashi.com/products/nutrition_info/cookies_chocolate_almond_butter
    http://whatisthatingredient.com/product.php?id=36


    ^^^^^^^^

    Kashi is just a pseudo health food brand for people who are easily influenced by marketing
  • KatLifter
    KatLifter Posts: 1,314 Member

    I'm with you on the Oreos. I used to love them, then I stopped eating a lot of processed foods, and now they taste like chemical cardboard. A little sad, but also better for me. On the other hand, Kashi oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are delish!

    There are people that always come onto threads about healthy eating and dispute it. This is done by insulting you, your belief systems, your education, etc. Bottom line is, not everyone has to agree. I love what eating clean has done for my health and my body, so I'm sticking with it and will encourage others to try it out.

    Do you think Kashi choc chip cookies are unprocessed?

    Did I say they were completely unprocessed? No.
    Are they less processed than others? Yes.

    ETA: And out of this post all you took was I said Kashi cookies taste good? :huh:

    How so? a batter is made and then baked. Compare Oreos to Kashi, which has more ingredients?

    http://www.kashi.com/products/nutrition_info/cookies_chocolate_almond_butter
    http://whatisthatingredient.com/product.php?id=36
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    Well I started by stating a personal taste preference. Sorry if you disagree, that's completely fine. I'm not putting you down or challenging the fact that you may like them and eat them. I don't see why you feel the need to do that to me.

    The number of ingredients isn't as important (to me) as what they are. Oreo's number 1 ingredient is sugar, Kashi's first three are whole oats. These also fill you up and provide some nutritional value.

    Side note: I didn't know what reduced iron was until now, "Reduced Iron is the product of Rust that has been de-rusted by applying an electrical current and hydrogen to the rust." That just sounds kind of gross.
  • Babeskeez
    Babeskeez Posts: 606 Member
    basically another word for restricting, not living life, sucking the fun out of eating, depriving myself of goodness. You know, that kind of thing.

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