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Why we fell for clean eating
Jan. 15th, 2018 06:52 amvia http://ift.tt/2r8808P:
Why we fell for clean eating:
thurisazsalail:
systlin:
dimetrodone:
bogleech:
I actually remember “The Blonde Vegan” pissing me off with her potentially deadly pseudoscience. I had no idea she ACTUALLY started slowly dying from this shit, tried to tell her audience, and got mostly death threats and body shaming from them in return.
The entire nebulous movement of Unprocessed Organic Food Hippie movement is so fucking evil. They should just be held down and forced to subsist on nothing but McNuggets .
I feel like it’s worth noting that her specific “clean eating” diet wasn’t just “no processed food”, but also no meat, no grain, no oil, no legumes.
This wasn’t something like the paleo or keto diet or even most vegan diets (which can be flawed but also practiced health and be substained and fine for many people with the right resources and information), but one that basically cut out a large majorly of calorie (and often nutrient) dense foods that most would consider healthy and alright in a standard diets.
Not that this thing wasn’t the result of how dangerous *diet culture* gets when mixed with notions of purity and body shaming and really bad science, but this was very much also a case of all that stuff mixed in likely serious eating disorders and becoming a community
Orthorexia is the obsession with eating ‘clean’, and it’s every bit as dangerous as anorexia and bulimia.
Orthorexia is how, last semester, I ended up nearly failing half of my classes.
See, I actually know QUITE a bit about nutrition, nutrient chemistry, medicine, etc. So I thought, “Hey, Nutrition + Drugs” class? EASY A!”
Yeahhhh… I did not know that there were THREE SEPARATE MANDATORY PROJECTS that required me to count calories + various nutrients, which included not being ‘allowed’ to go over certain ones EASILY done over (like sugar and salt, which is in EVERYTHING), etc. etc.
My calorie count on a very active lifestyle went from around 2500-2000 to….. 600. 500. Lower and lower.
Here’s the thing: I was eating. All. Day. I was eating ALL THE FUCKING TIME. I thought I was doing so good! I was able to do this stupid project and not stop eating! ……. why am I so disoriented? distracted? can’t seem to stay awake or turn anything in?
………… until I counted the calories, which I’d saved until only the end.
oh fuck.
I WAS eating! …. mostly vegetables and vegetable-and-fruit based dressings. I was eating TONNES. I was so, so stuffed on high-fibre stuff like nutmeg + cinnamon honey yams, mixed greens salad with cucumbers and bell peppers with this delicious dressing my former boss at a chinese restaurant made me from orange juice and ginger and veggies.
600 calories worth. Because those vegetables have almost no calories in them.
Basal metabolic rate, what I need to just sit down and breathe and exist, is 1400 calories daily. 1400 needed to live, 2200 needed for daily activities minimum, v 600 actual intake calories a day.
You can see the problem here, right?
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Why we fell for clean eating:
thurisazsalail:
systlin:
dimetrodone:
bogleech:
I actually remember “The Blonde Vegan” pissing me off with her potentially deadly pseudoscience. I had no idea she ACTUALLY started slowly dying from this shit, tried to tell her audience, and got mostly death threats and body shaming from them in return.
The entire nebulous movement of Unprocessed Organic Food Hippie movement is so fucking evil. They should just be held down and forced to subsist on nothing but McNuggets .
I feel like it’s worth noting that her specific “clean eating” diet wasn’t just “no processed food”, but also no meat, no grain, no oil, no legumes.
This wasn’t something like the paleo or keto diet or even most vegan diets (which can be flawed but also practiced health and be substained and fine for many people with the right resources and information), but one that basically cut out a large majorly of calorie (and often nutrient) dense foods that most would consider healthy and alright in a standard diets.
Not that this thing wasn’t the result of how dangerous *diet culture* gets when mixed with notions of purity and body shaming and really bad science, but this was very much also a case of all that stuff mixed in likely serious eating disorders and becoming a community
Orthorexia is the obsession with eating ‘clean’, and it’s every bit as dangerous as anorexia and bulimia.
Orthorexia is how, last semester, I ended up nearly failing half of my classes.
See, I actually know QUITE a bit about nutrition, nutrient chemistry, medicine, etc. So I thought, “Hey, Nutrition + Drugs” class? EASY A!”
Yeahhhh… I did not know that there were THREE SEPARATE MANDATORY PROJECTS that required me to count calories + various nutrients, which included not being ‘allowed’ to go over certain ones EASILY done over (like sugar and salt, which is in EVERYTHING), etc. etc.
My calorie count on a very active lifestyle went from around 2500-2000 to….. 600. 500. Lower and lower.
Here’s the thing: I was eating. All. Day. I was eating ALL THE FUCKING TIME. I thought I was doing so good! I was able to do this stupid project and not stop eating! ……. why am I so disoriented? distracted? can’t seem to stay awake or turn anything in?
………… until I counted the calories, which I’d saved until only the end.
oh fuck.
I WAS eating! …. mostly vegetables and vegetable-and-fruit based dressings. I was eating TONNES. I was so, so stuffed on high-fibre stuff like nutmeg + cinnamon honey yams, mixed greens salad with cucumbers and bell peppers with this delicious dressing my former boss at a chinese restaurant made me from orange juice and ginger and veggies.
600 calories worth. Because those vegetables have almost no calories in them.
Basal metabolic rate, what I need to just sit down and breathe and exist, is 1400 calories daily. 1400 needed to live, 2200 needed for daily activities minimum, v 600 actual intake calories a day.
You can see the problem here, right?
(Your picture was not posted)
