[LifeStyle] What is "clean eating" and how beneficial is it really?

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Food experts have warned that fad diets are putting health at risk.

The National Osteoporosis Society in the UK found that a fifth (20%) of people under the age of 25 are eliminating or reducing dairy in their diets, which can affect their bones.

Within her advice, a diet that she recommended avoiding in its most extreme forms is called "clean eating".

 

What is clean eating?
The basic concept of this diet is only to consume "clean" food, preparing it from scratch, from its natural state, and to eliminate refined sugar.

More extreme versions may consider excluding gluten, grains, dairy, and even advocate a raw food diet.

 

How is the menu?
Pippa Selby, a clean eating practitioner for three years, starts her day with a great smoothie of frozen fruit, fresh fruit, oatmeal, and nut butter.

Lunch can be a homemade soup or a mozzarella cheese salad. For dinner, a sweet potato (sweet potato) bake or a piece of field-raised grass-fed beef with homemade fries.

Other classic clean diet recipes include kale, mashed avocado, chia seeds, or quinoa smoothies.

 

Where it originated?
The diet emerged about a decade ago, says nutritionist Catherine Collins.

Among its followers are famous such as actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Jessica Alba, Australian model Miranda Kerr and singer Katy Perry. But it has been bloggers and video bloggers that have pushed the concept.

Clean Eating Alice, also known as Alice Liveing, has half a million followers on Instagram and two cookbooks to her credit.

In a recent interview with the po[CENSORED]r British newspaper The Sun, he explained that he selected the term "clean eating" because "it perfectly encapsulates everything I wanted to do with my own diet, clean it up, eliminate all that processed junk and start eating real food. again".

"At no point did I think about completely eliminating food groups from my diet, or putting metaphorical labels on foods and perceiving them as clean or dirty."

Food blogger Ella Mills - better known as Deliciously Ella - has distanced herself from the "clean eating" label.

In a BBC documentary called "Clean Eating: The Dirty Truth," she said that the word "clean" had taken on too many connotations.

"Now clean implies dirty and that is negative," he said.

"When I first read the term, it meant natural, not processed, and now it doesn't mean any of that. It means diet. It means fashion."

 

How po[CENSORED]r is it?
It's not very clear.

Nutritionist Catherine Collins says it's more of a lifestyle than a dietary choice, which seems to appeal to adolescent girls and women in their 20s.

It requires attention to detail and a specific attitude. You won't find many mothers in their 40s practicing it, he adds.

How beneficial is it?

Pippa Selby started clean eating after suffering joint pain and dizziness after the birth of her daughter.

The 29-year-old mother, who is a graphic researcher in East London, notes that the diet change was financially costly but has greatly transformed how she feels.

But he also explains that there came a time when he had to "distance himself" from the diet.

"It is easy to become obsessive," she acknowledges.

"It can be very restrictive and there is so much posted on social media that you can feel attacked if you don't eat the right food."

Collins says that "clean eating" infers that a plant-based diet will make you leaner, better fit, and longer last. "

However, you are concerned when bloggers recommend eliminating entire food groups like dairy and wheat without suggesting an alternative.

If you don't have Miranda Kerr's body now, says nutritionist Collins, you probably never will. Their appearance is due to good genes, a strict diet, and exercise.

"Externally, you may look vibrant and beautiful, but internally, your body may be crying out for nutrition, she says.

Collins alludes to Gwyneth Paltrow, when the actress said in 2010 that she had the first signs of osteopenia, a precursor to osteoporosis, the brittle bone disease generally seen in women after menopause.

Osteopenia can occur in people who eliminate food groups like dairy, especially if they do so for a long time.

According to the most recent analysis from the UK National Diet and Nutrition Study, the low calcium intake experienced by one in six women under the age of 24 has reached worrying levels.

Collins advises young women to think about what is missing in those dishes that look so delicious that skinny and beautiful people post on Instagram.

It's a snapshot of their diets, she says. "There could have been a pile of chocolate chip cookies followed by vomiting in between."

The best diet is a varied one, says Collins. A Mediterranean diet with olive oil, vegetables, lean meats and a handful of nuts to snack on is "the nutritional guide for people of all ages."