“I long for the days when clean eating meant not getting too much down your front,” the novelist Susie Boyt joked recently. By 2015, Nigella Lawson was speaking for many when she expressed “disgust” at clean eating as a judgmental form of body fascism. Yet clean eating is itself a wildly profitable commercial enterprise, promoted using photogenic young bloggers on a multi-billion-dollar tech platform. McGregor’s main concern about clean eating, she added, was that as a professional treating young people with eating disorders, she had seen first-hand how the rules and restrictions of clean eating often segued into debilitating anorexia or orthorexia. The problem is it’s near impossible to pick out the sensible bits of “clean eating” and ignore the rest.

Source: The Guardian August 11, 2017 04:52 UTC