Clean eating: yet another pious diet (Newspaper Article)

Wow. I can't help but hear a display of hypocrisy in this article. Bashing those that eat clean isn't any better than clean eaters bashing others is it? And it's amusing to me that society thinks because certain people choose to be more disciplined/ educated about what they put in their bodies that it makes them better than anyone else. Yes you can define clean eating just about any way you want but IMO it is eating less processed foods and choosing more natural ingredients. I buy cookies out of a box sometimes instead of bake them, and hit up the sushi bar for some veg sushi, but I also cook/bake most my food at home so I know what I am putting in my body. And when I buy packaged stuff, I read the ingredients and cut out as much preservatives as possible.

Am I better than anyone else? No. Do I sometimes wish I didn't care so much? Yes. But at the end of the day, whether I die walking across the street or into my older years, I want to nourish my body with good whole foods; so that I feel good. As to everyone else, it is your body and it is your choice to do with it, feed it as you choose. I don't look down upon others that don't eat the way I do. Frankly it is none of anyone's business.

Sorry for the rant, just putting my opinion out there.

I understand this article was supposed to be humorous but for me it does nothing but feed into the “only elitists are mindful about what they eat” school of thought. Just because someone eats a diet based heavily in “real food” (as in not stuff from a package, with unnatural preservatives/additives, etc., which is how I will define clean eating for the purpose of commenting here) doesn’t make them elitist, holier than thou, or a Gwyneth Paltrow/GOOP disciple. It means they are trying to educate themselves about what they put in their body. Tell me again, why should we mock or shame people for that?

I'd like to thank you for perfectly illustrating the point I wanted to make.

You say you eat "real food." So what do I eat? Oh that's right, processed crap/garbage/junk/frankenfood that will give me cancer and kill me.

And then you want to know why people look down on others for the way they eat. You've already done it in the way you label your diet. The first offense is yours, and then you wonder why there's backlash.

"I eat REAL food, you don't. How does that make me elitist?"

You've answered your own question.

Wow. I can't help but hear a display of hypocrisy in this article. Bashing those that eat clean isn't any better than clean eaters bashing others is it? And it's amusing to me that society thinks because certain people choose to be more disciplined/ educated about what they put in their bodies that it makes them better than anyone else. Yes you can define clean eating just about any way you want but IMO it is eating less processed foods and choosing more natural ingredients. I buy cookies out of a box sometimes instead of bake them, and hit up the sushi bar for some veg sushi, but I also cook/bake most my food at home so I know what I am putting in my body. And when I buy packaged stuff, I read the ingredients and cut out as much preservatives as possible.

Am I better than anyone else? No. Do I sometimes wish I didn't care so much? Yes. But at the end of the day, whether I die walking across the street or into my older years, I want to nourish my body with good whole foods; so that I feel good. As to everyone else, it is your body and it is your choice to do with it, feed it as you choose. I don't look down upon others that don't eat the way I do. Frankly it is none of anyone's business.

Sorry for the rant, just putting my opinion out there.

Begone with your well reasoned and fair minded comment! It has no place here amidst the bashing that will inevitably ensue!