Eat Clean??

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  • amy1612
    amy1612 Posts: 1,356 Member
    Well, I linked to a study a ways back on this forum. WHY has this topic turned so hostile?!

    Its NOT hostility, its people getting irritated by the sheer nonsense reasons people give for 'eating clean'. And this is said as someone who 'eats clean'. I eat good, whole, nutritious and (the majority of the time) 'unprocessed' foods. I do it because it works for me, it makes me feel good, its mitigates issues with IBS and is generally more delicious for me.

    Yes, eating a well balanced diet is better for your body and health. And yes, you can get non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which has been ASSOCIATED with high levels of processed foods.....however, unless youre suggesting that your diet was so high in these types of foods that you were developing a non-alcoholic fatty liver, the point you made is highly unlikely. The same goes or anyone making any claim which is unsupported by well controlled and peer reviwed scientific study (I have just focussed on your example because it is salient, but there are others).
  • latinstarlite1
    latinstarlite1 Posts: 62 Member
    Totally pointless. Hit your macros and stay under your calorie goal.

    What exactly are macros??
  • Rice27
    Rice27 Posts: 29 Member
    I have been clean eating for 1 month - only lost 2 pounds but have lost inches - no bloating in my stomach area! I feel so much better, no migraines or mood swings! We just eat veggies, fruit and lean meats....we traded milk for almond milk - little changes :)

    I like these sites - read them and decide if its something you might try :) Our goal was to try for a month and decide if it was for use.

    Husband wife team - great site! http://www.heandsheeatclean.com/2012/10/clean-eating-transformation.html

    And this is the wife's site
    http://whitneycarlson.com/

    I tried Macros and I find it hard to hit them each day - eating clean is just easier for me.
  • rlp1975
    rlp1975 Posts: 47 Member
    Lol!
  • EmmaKarney
    EmmaKarney Posts: 690 Member
    Totally pointless. Hit your macros and stay under your calorie goal.

    What exactly are macros??

    It's short for macronutrients - these are protein, carbohydrates and fat

    So when someone says "hit your macros" they mean get the right amount of each of these.
  • waldo56
    waldo56 Posts: 1,861 Member
    Ah clean eating, aka the adjective diet.
    Clean, unprocessed, natural, health, pure, organic, grass fed, ancestral, noninflammitory, etc....

    Stick to the good adjectives. Avoid their opposites. All the evil adjectives.
    Unclean, processed, synthetic, unhealthy, unpure, inorganic, grain fed, modern, inflammatory, etc...

    They will make you fat. Or are what is keeping you fat. Or are making you unhealthy, even if you're not fat. Even if in no measureable way are they umaking you unhealthy, surely they are building up and causing you to be unhealhthy in ways that can't be measured.

    That way you don't have to actually learn anything about nutrition. And you don't have to waste hours every day frustrated with elementary school level math. Just stick to the good adjectives, and you know what the good adjectives are, and you'll be fine.

    If you do wish to learn anything about nutrition, there are giant communities full of fellow clean eaters who are all hipster and reject common dogma, using a small set of questionalby applied and cherry picked research, you can develop an incredible understanding of crowdsourced but largely imaginary explanation of human nutrition. Then take this profound understanding you have and go out amoung the masses, preaching the word of clean to the unknowing sheep.

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    I'm personally a big fan of processed food. But I have the good sense to understand the relationship between calories, macronutrients, micronutrients, and my bodies' needs.
  • kikilita
    kikilita Posts: 91 Member
    I know this sounds terrible, but I am so glad so many other people have IBS.
  • amy1612
    amy1612 Posts: 1,356 Member
    I know this sounds terrible, but I am so glad so many other people have IBS.

    Lmao when I was diagnosed I was glad that the problems I was having were 'a thing' and not just me.
  • MzPix
    MzPix Posts: 177 Member
    I just wanted to point out to the OP (because she posted here asking to know more about clean eating) something that I didn't see many, if anyone, mention: the motivations behind clean eating.
    I saw numerous people talk about the biological impacts on our bodies, but I didn't see anyone mention that a lot of people choose to "eat clean" due to environmental reasons, societal injustices, personal beliefs regarding multinational corporations, animal rights, connectedness to the earth, or religion.
    It's not always practiced for individual health reasons, although that is one of the reasons many participate in clean eating.

    I believe that we, as human beings, have a very personal relationship with the things we put in our own mouths. I think its great that you posted here looking for more information about something you may or may not decide to participate in before making the decision to do so.
    Feel free to add me as a friend here on MFP.

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