Toska2 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2017 10:34 am
Once one concerns themselves not to eat crap, the gains plateau.
while a popular sentiment, brute's experience is contrary to this idea. the whole idea of "clean eating", "non-processed food" or "eating real food" is a red herring, a bit like veganism.
while it's certainly possible to eat a healthy non-crap or vegan diet, the ideas are orthogonal to the actual impact of the diet. sugar, HFCS, hydrogenated vegetable oils/trans fats are all vegan. sugar can be very "unprocessed". lots of unprocessed food can still have very negative effects on metabolism and fat accumulation.
so for any number humans that undertake one of these red herring diets, a few will (by chance?) happen to pick a subset that actually works great. others will pick a subset that does not lead to the desired outcomes.
brute doesn't think "processing" necessarily adds negative value to food, and "unprocessed" doesn't add blank positive value. brute would rather eat "processed" (what does that even mean?) meat and animal fats than "unprocessed" fruit or grain, due to impact on metabolism.
while processing can certainly affect the health impact of foods, brute would not subscribe to the idea that more processing is always worse, or that a less processed food item is always less healthy than a more processed one.