What a stupid article.
Eating “clean” means trying to eat all edible healthy foods on the planet in their cleanest states, not raw, necessarily, but not dripping with pesticides or filled with artificial flavors and colors. Those three additions to our food supply are NEUROTOXIC and can cumulatively cause brain damage. Slow neurodegenerative damage like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, etc. Don’t touch fake sugars.
It is EASY to have your own diet that you enjoy and still eat clean. The article is wrong. Try to buy veggies and fruits that are organic, not because they are perfect but because they have less NEUROTOXIC pesticides in them. Don’t worry so much about heavily peeled items. Buy organic for the thin skinned things like berries and lettuce. Eat meat and fish and dairy from healthy animals. Feedlot animals are rarely healthy. We do this - it is more expensive but we eat less of it. Avoid most packaged foods. Eat normal rice, not boxes where the rice is covered in msg (every flavored rice is). Put your own actual spices on your own rice. It’s easy.
80%. Don’t stress each time you eat at a friend’s house or restaurant. Eat clean 80% of the time and enjoy your life. Parkinson’s, Gehrig’s and Alzheimer’s aren’t fun for you or your relatives.
A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/