the "mindset" behind clean eating/paleo

Why do the non-paleo/primal eaters care about what others eat so much? Why all the redundant threads on the subject? Why not just care (or don't) about what you eat? I've only been visiting this forum for about 4 days now and I'm sick of all the paleo diet bashing already. Maybe I missed some nasty threads where someone said something really terrible about those that don't view food the same way, but why all the lingering hostility?

There will always be people with differing views on how to eat like vegan, vegetarian, pro-fasting, anti-fasting. Live and let live people.

We don't care.
Cause people refuse to understand that we don't care.
We spend plenty of time caring about what we eat.
Also, you missed the whole point. We don't care what you, as an individual put in your mouth. We do care when you imply that clean eating has made you lose weight, is the best way to do things, is the only way to avoid De Cancer, or otherwise shame other people's food choices.

You said "when you imply" in your response to me. Are you generalizing and grouping me with people you have talked to in the past? Because I've not made any such statements anywhere.

We don't care.
Cause people refuse to understand that we don't care.
We spend plenty of time caring about what we eat.
Also, you missed the whole point. We don't care what you, as an individual put in your mouth. We do care when you imply that clean eating has made you lose weight, is the best way to do things, is the only way to avoid De Cancer, or otherwise shame other people's food choices.

You said "when you imply" in your response to me. Are you generalizing and grouping me with people you have talked to in the past? Because I've not made any such statements anywhere.

That would be why I specifically stated 'You the individual' before that, yes.

Since I'm kind of the forum goof and will not be all that respected/argued with vehemently as much, I'll just explain what is annoying to those of us who argue with you guys advocating "clean eating" and paleo.

For us, it's the anal retentive mindset that is most annoying and not what you actually aspouse for others to eat. Eating a diet full of heatlhy foods is absolutely good and beneficial, but grouping foods as "good" or "bad" we see as unhealthy. Also eliminating whole food groups is just a drastic step that will be far less beneficial as advice to the general audience as a whole (while acknowledging those with food allergies/sensitivities).

As a "for everyone" advice striving to eat the most whole foods you can, making sure you're getting adequate nutrition, and getting the message that a balanced diet is the most healthy for the average person is our goal. Our methods may seem offensive at times, but we all have hearts in the right place and are doing what we do to feel like we influence as many people as we can. Often for us that means some may be lost to our sarcasm/(and what could be called bullying sometimes), but we do genually strive to help as many people as we can.

Also, if you look at the diets of most of us, it's full of "clean" foods and mostly "clean" eating anyway. We've just reached that point where we realise that foods we enjoy don't have to wreck our diets or even that staying way off course in the short term doesn't have to affect the longterm.

I would just like to say that because it is the MINDSET that we disagree with most, that often our disagreements get personal and are viewed as "nasty" in a hurry and are often heated. And for that I apologize for "us", but I'd just like to say that it doesn't mean that we don't care or don't want to be supportive. We're just chosing a different means of trying to be supportive.

Why do the non-paleo/primal eaters care about what others eat so much? Why all the redundant threads on the subject? Why not just care (or don't) about what you eat? I've only been visiting this forum for about 4 days now and I'm sick of all the paleo diet bashing already. Maybe I missed some nasty threads where someone said something really terrible about those that don't view food the same way, but why all the lingering hostility?

There will always be people with differing views on how to eat like vegan, vegetarian, pro-fasting, anti-fasting. Live and let live people.

Well written indeed.

I went down the Paleo(ish) path for a bit, read all the WheatBelly stuff, ditched the legumes, etc.

And to be honest at the end I felt like I had an eating disorder.

One day I looked in the cupboard and didn't see "anything to eat" even though it was packed with food.

So I questioned why I needed to restrict whole groups of foods and came up with nothing. No intolerances, no allergies, no metabolic advantage.

I'm not knocking "cleaning" the diet up a bit but some people do need to question if such restrictions are honestly necessary.

Notwithstanding medical conditions, of course.

That's exactly how I felt when I started and kept cutting this food out, that food, and so on. I was miserable and almost went from one eating disorder (overeating) to another. The hole, "not seeing anything to eat even with a pantry full of food" really hit home on that.