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‘Clean food’ is a dangerous fad
- bootload 11y ago"The supermarket aisle has become a confusing place. It used to be full of recognisable items like cheese and butter; now you find yourself bamboozled by all manner of odd alternatives such as ‘raw’ hummus, wheat-free bread and murky juices. You have to stay pretty alert to make sure you pick up a pint of proper milk, rather than a soy-based alternative or one free from lactose. Supermarkets have become shrines to ‘clean eating’, a faith that promises happiness, healthiness and energy." Supermarket and their marketing teams catering the orthorexia nervosa shopper. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa
- DrScump 11y agoTL;DR summary: 1) tell anecdotal story about a somewhat-misinformed (or even a bit nutty) advocate of some element of cleaner eating; 2) ridicule that advocate; 3) repeat until word quota of article is filled. The tone is utterly dismissive of those who face proven adverse reactions to generally-accepted Western foodstuffs (be it insulin sensitivity, Crohn's disease, diverticulitis, allergies), lumping everyone who bothers to look carefully at ingredients and processes into one common nutjob wastebin. Sure, many claimed "gluten insensitives" are self-misdiagnosing, but even then, whom exactly are they harming? We should rejoice in modern requirements for detailed labeling of manufactured food items in terms of ingredients, nutritional values, calorie counts, etc. and encourage people to learn, and care, about what they are eating. Despite the authors' general sense of denial (and given their lack of scientific higher education), there are ingredients that should be avoided: artificial transfats, mechanically separated "meats" (I think if everyone learned what that really is, they would make it a deal-breaker in shopping), HFCS, etc.