Hey there,
The cult of "clean eating" is more popular than ever these days, and while its heart is in the right place, its brain is a muddle.
For starters, many "gurus" disagree on which foods are "clean" and which aren't—one's trash is another's treasure—so there are many sects to choose from that prescribe wildly different protocols.
Will you go vegan or carnivore, for instance? Keto or fruitarian? Gluten-free, non-GMO, raw, or organic, or all of the above?
Choose carefully because no matter which philosophy you pick, someone will claim it'll eventually ruin your body, mind, and soul.
Secondly, binary labeling of food as "clean" and "dirty," "healthy" and "unhealthy," or "good" and "bad" is simplistic and inaccurate.
Just as some foods are more conducive to fat gain or loss than others and it's incorrect to stamp one as "fattening" and another "slimming," some are more conducive to good health than others and it's incorrect to denounce one as black and the other white.
Thus, it's far more useful to think of foods in terms of their key characteristics—calories, macronutrients, and micronutrients—and whether your diet on the whole is healthy and functional or not.
This depends on energy balance (is your caloric intake calibrated properly?), macronutrient balance (are you eating enough protein, carbohydrate, and fat?), and micronutrient balance (are you getting enough key vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients to preserve health?).
For example, if you get most (70-to-80%+) of your daily calories from nutritious foods like high-quality protein, fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and the like, your diet is healthy regardless of what you do with the remaining calories.
Can you optimize it further by choosing specific proteins, fruits, vegetables, etc. over others? Sure, but that's not part of the 20% that gives you the 80%. That's the finishing touches.
Ironically, this approach naturally produces a diet that looks fairly "clean" by many standards (but absolutely squalid by some) because it reflects what's useful in the clean eating paradigm and junks the rest.
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