LET ME CLARIFY WHAT "CLEAN EATING" MEANS TO ME | MYWW | WEIGHT WATCHERS
Channel: Jenn Clayton
Date: 10/03/2020

This is NOT a video I wanted to film today but it is ABSOLUTELY necessary for my heart.  I need to clarify what clean eating mean to me.  I hope this helps clarify my approach to WW.

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Mayoclinic.com
Clean eating — or eating clean — seems to be all over the internet and in grocery stores and restaurants. What does it mean? Is it just another fad?
Answer From Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D. 
Clean eating is in essence a diet — just a way of eating. But it is also a way of living that lends itself to improving one's health and well-being.
Clean eating involves a few key principles that align with basic principles of healthy eating:
• Eat more real foods. Sound familiar? One of the tenets of the Mayo Clinic Diet is eating more real foods and fewer processed or refined foods. Convenience food is OK, sometimes even necessary, just make sure that what's in that can or package is the real thing with few other ingredients.
• Eat for nourishment. Eat regular, balanced meals and healthy snacks that are nourishing and not too rushed. Eat at home more often and prepare food in healthy ways. Pack food to eat away from home when on the road, at work or at activities. When you do eat out, choose wisely.
• Eat more plant-based foods. Ramp up on plants by eating more plant-based proteins, such as beans, lentils and peas, and high-protein whole grains, like quinoa, barley and buckwheat.
• Clean up your act. Adopt a cleaner lifestyle by getting plenty of physical activity during the day, getting enough sleep at night and managing stress in healthy ways. Connect with people you enjoy — talk, laugh, share a meal, go for a walk, or play a game.

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/diet-nutrition/a37595/what-is-clean-eating/
Namely: What does "clean eating" even mean?
The phrase began with good intentions: It used to imply eating lots of whole, real foods — veggies, fruit, whole grains, animal and plant-based protein, nuts, seeds, and oils. It also meant you should eat as close to nature as possible — minimally processed, not packaged, or originating from a factory. Cooking at home and finding good ingredients were encouraged. 

http://www.eatingwell.com/article/78846/7-tips-for-clean-eating/
4. Watch Out for Processed Foods
We're not opposed to all processed foods. Technically when we chop, mix and cook at home we are processing foods. The trouble is that so much of processed food at the grocery store is processed beyond the point of recognition. Nature certainly didn't color those chips that neon color of orange or make blue candy-colored cereal. Keep an eye out for anything with lots of sugar and refined grains, super-long ingredient lists with foods you don't recognize and anything with partially hydrogenated oils. Clean processed foods exist like plain yogurt, cheese, whole-wheat pasta, and packaged baby spinach. And while you can make salad dressings, pasta sauce, mayo, hummus and broth at home you can also find clean versions at the store. Just read the ingredient list. Our bodies digest processed and unprocessed foods differently. In the case of white bread vs. whole wheat bread the machine has already started to process the white bread for you-stripping away the bran and germ-and leaving your body with less work to do. Limiting packaged foods can also reduce your exposure to BPA (found in some canned foods) and other chemicals found in plastics.

https://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/g20454808/the-beginner-s-guide-to-ditching-processed-foods/
There's trouble in aisle five. It also lurks in the frozen food aisle, the bread aisle, and the dairy aisle. The mischief-maker, my friends, is highly processed food. Now, technically any food that's been altered from its natural state—like pasteurized milk, roasted coffee beans, or even precut veggies—is processed. So a little processing isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially if you don't want to spend your entire life in the kitchen.
Highly processed foods, on the other hand, are stripped of their inherent nutrients or plied with sugar, sodium, unhealthful fats, or unrecognizable ingredients. Amazingly, these less-than-desirable eats now make up the bulk of foods on supermarket shelves, accounting for 58% of our calories and 89% of the added sugar in our diets. 

http://www.eatingwell.com/article/282469/clean-eating-foods-list/

https://www.dummies.com/food-drink/special-diets/eating-clean-for-dummies-cheat-sheet/