Can we improve our health by what we eat? Can we clean our body by what we eat?
Is Clean Eating another hyped diet fad with claims that don’t stand scrutiny?
Giles Yeo investigates the claims for a Horizon BBC documentary .
Hashtag #ckeaneating on Instagram, 47.3 million posts.
Bone broth aka stock. Nutritionous, excellent if under the weather, or to add to risotto.
Gluten free, yes if have genetic abnormality. A couple of a percent maybe gluten intolerant. A health benefit, gluten free? No.
A randomised clinical trial found that the problem was not gluten, it was ultra-processed food.
Look at the long list of ingredients for sliced white bread.
The long slow fermentation of sourdough bread breaks down the gluten (not zero gluten). Those with gluten intolerance can eat sourdough bread (but equally could be because not ultra-processed food).
Archeological sites show we have been eating grains for thousands of years. Long enough to have adapted.
Alkaline diet the realm of the loonies. Consume only alkaline foods to maintain the body in an alkaline state. Two problems. The body self-regulates, and that includes pH, which varies in various parts of the body according to function. The highly prescriptive regime of what to eat, includes acidic foods (work that one out).
Protein is protein is protein. It is broken down into amino acids, basic building blocks.
The worry is the influence of Instagram and now TikTok. People posting garbage, which gets regurgitated by failing Reach Group.
Every day, failing Reach Group, regurgitates nutritional click bait posted on Instagram.
I am bombarded with crap on social media, that is in addition to the click bait nutritional advice pumped out by failing Reach Group .
High protein zero sugar cereals, protein powders, adulterated coffee with unproven health claims.
The average person on a varied diet consumes more than sufficient protein. Excess protein is not stored. It passes through or is converted to sugars and fat.
Coffee is healthy
- high in polyphenols
- high in fibre
An excellent documentary highlighting dodgy diet fads and ibuprofen health benefits.
Giles Yeo is a professor at Cambridge University looking at the genetics of obesity, auhor of Calories Don’t Count.
Improve your health by eating 30 different plants a week (Five a Day dated): fruit, vegetables, seeds, pulses, legumes, herbs, spices, fungi. Also fermented foods: yoghurt, kefir, saukraut, kimchi, kombucha. Also dark chocolate and coffee.
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