Fit Tip - What is Eating Clean?

Tom breaks down what it means to "eat clean" in this Fit Tip.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Fitness Disrupted, a production of My Heart Radio.
I am Tom Holland and this is Fitness Disrupted. Eating clean.
What the heck is that? It's gonna be one of
the quickest bit tips because it's really simple. So you

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may have your friend, your bodybuilder friend, your you know,
your fitness friend who tell you that they are eating
clean and you think, what the heck is that? Well,
just take the word clean here you go, replace it
with healthy. I'm eating healthy. But this is one of

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those things. It's almost like, yeah, I'm better than you
because I eat clean. It's just healthy people, It's another word.
It just did a show on cycling carbs. If you
missed that one fit tip, listen to that one too.
What does cycling carbs means? I'm taking in more energy
on the days I need it, and I'm taking in
less on the days I don't need it. And if

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I want to lose weight, I'm gonna cycle my carbs down.
I'm gonna take in less energy cycling carbs. It's increasing
or decreasing your fuel intake based on your needs and
your goals. Cycling cars makes it sound much better. Same
thing with eating clean, and oftentimes When they say that
and you say, well, what does that mean, Well, I'm
eating real food, now real food. Some people get annoyed

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with that. They say, well, food is food, and that's
so elitist. Well, it's just trying to explain it. But
I get it. I get that argument. But again, come on,
ease up. So it's very simple people whole foods, eating clean,
healthy whole foods, minimally processed. Okay, we're talking about whole

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foods that are vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds,
lean protein. Sounds a lot like my favorite diet, the
Mediterranean diet. We're talking fresh food, nutritious, nutrient dense, nutrient

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dense vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants, foods that are super healthy.
You want to call them clean, Never it's like dirty clean,
I don't, I don't know. It's just healthy and healthy
fats too. By the way, we need all of the above,
all of the macro nutrients that's protein, carbohydrate. Generally speaking,

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it's things without a label. When I interviewed Jack Colaine
so many years ago, the guy I looked up to
the person when I first and you know, he was
my idol way older than many of you. As far
as like a reference. I know, but he said, if
it comes in it, if man makes it, don't eat
it comes in the bag's probably not as good for you.

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Now I'd argue there's some healthy options now, but it's
a great simple rule of thumb. If it has a label,
probably not as healthy as something that doesn't have a way,
but like an apple. Okay. So it's also when they
talk about shopping the perimeter of a supermarket, that's where
the whole foods are. That's where the fresh foods are,

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That's where the fruit and vegetables and minimally processed foods are.
Common sense people. It's trying to make something sound better
and make people, you know, put themselves above other people.
Eating clean. It's eight twenty. This is the of the time,
eating whole foods of the time, or and let's say

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healthy foods as well of the time, indulging that is
eating clean for the most part. Okay, extremes are are
easier and generally unhealthy. It's balance. So there you have it,
eating clean, eating healthy simple as that. Thank you for listening.

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