clean
Clean – aggettivo e avverbio
Clean eating – sostantivo
To eat clean – locuzione
You’ve probably heard of clean eating, but you may not know what it is exactly or how to go about cleaning up your diet.
The implication is that if you’re not “eating clean”, what you eat otherwise is dirty or unhygienic.
The “clean” diet that Younger was selling as the route to health was making its creator sick.
Clean sugars include honey, maple syrup, and dehydrated sugar cane juice.
Si sa che alla base di un’alimentazione sana ci sono verdura e frutta in quantità, poco sale e poco zucchero, pochi grassi e prodotti trasformati, ma cosa s’intende con clean eating? In poche parole si tratta di un regime alimentare basato su una data serie di alimenti: integrali, non trasformati, spesso crudi e talvolta frullati. Le diete cosiddette clean variano notevolmente tra loro, ma tutte concordano nell’escludere una o più categorie alimentari, di volta in volta latticini, proteine animali, prodotti che contengono glutine eccetera. “Mangiare pulito”, si sostiene, vi renderà non solo più sani ma anche più magri.
E se certi alimenti sono clean, “puliti”, e ci fanno stare meglio, ne consegue che gli altri sono “sporchi” e ci fanno star male. Le asserzioni dei fautori del clean eating sono state messe in dubbio da molte parti e i critici ne denunciano la promozione di diete farlocche e potenzialmente anche di disordini alimentari.
Origini del termine
L’uso dell’aggettivo clean in questo contesto risale alla metà del primo decennio del nostro secolo, quando i social media iniziarono a traboccare di ragazze bellissime e magrissime, tutte un ritratto della salute, con hashtag tipo #cleaneating e #eatclean.
Traduzione di Loredana Riu
Clean – adjective and adverb
Clean eating – noun
To eat clean – phrase
You’ve probably heard of clean eating, but you may not know what it is exactly or how to go about cleaning up your diet.
The implication is that if you’re not “eating clean”, what you eat otherwise is dirty or unhygienic.
The “clean” diet that Younger was selling as the route to health was making its creator sick.
Clean sugars include honey, maple syrup, and dehydrated sugar cane juice.
Most of us have a pretty good idea what is meant by healthy eating: lots of fruit and vegetables, not too much sugar, salt, or fat, cut down on red and processed meat. But what is clean eating? Eating clean is more about what you don’t eat than what you do. To eat clean means to restrict your diet to an approved list of whole, unprocessed foods, often eaten raw or blended into juices. Clean diets vary wildly but all agree in excluding whole categories of food, whether that be dairy, anything containing gluten, all animal-derived protein, all vegetables in the potato family, or whatever. Such a diet, it is claimed, will make you vibrantly healthy and, of course, thin.
Of course if some foods are clean, and make you well, then others must be dirty and make you ill. In recent years there has been a backlash against the whole notion of clean eating, with critics questioning its basis and sometimes accusing its proponents of encouraging faddishness and even eating disorders.
Origin
The adjective clean started to be applied to food in the middle of the first decade of this century. By the end of the decade social media accounts belonging to beautiful slim young women who glowed with health were awash with terms such as #cleaneating and #eatclean.
