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Horizon, Clean Eating -The Dirty Truth

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I may avoid it. It might irritate me too much, for all sorts of reasons.
 
Haven't seen it. I know someone who is doing the clean diet (they are also on Juice Plus & keeps going on about it). I looked it up, but there doesn't seem to be one standard 'clean' diet. There are many variations. What I have worked out is that it is basically a Paleo diet, which isn't a bad thing. It avoids processed food but also (in some versions of the diet) is low fat. It does allow more fruit than a LCHF diet does & some carbs are allowed.
 
I haven't seen it either, but from the review I read, it sounded like the guy presenting was going round asking people who make claims like, it'll cure cancer etc, for their evidence - and of course none of them had any.
 
Mark Parrott said:
Haven't seen it. I know someone who is doing the clean diet (they are also on Juice Plus & keeps going on about it). I looked it up, but there doesn't seem to be one standard 'clean' diet. There are many variations. What I have worked out is that it is basically a Paleo diet, which isn't a bad thing. It avoids processed food but also (in some versions of the diet) is low fat. It does allow more fruit than a LCHF diet does & some carbs are allowed.
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Oh dear god, JuicePlus is a bane of modern existence. It's complete nonsense, based on quasi-scientific sounding lies and turns you into a social pariah, because it's a pyramid scheme selling snake oil - I've completely fallen out with a family member and so has most of the rest of the family because she was constantly trying to tell you how great it was and how much weight she'd lost by 'JUST USING JUICEPLUS' (plus diet and exercise) and every conversation with her would very quickly come around to it.

It's like being a born-again Christian who makes money for every convert.
 
I watched this programme late after recording it. A very efficient demolition of all these stupid fad diets. I don't want to give away the ending, but it is both tragic and satisfying. Must see television, much to my surprise.
 
mikeyB said:
I watched this programme late after recording it. A very efficient demolition of all these stupid fad diets. I don't want to give away the ending, but it is both tragic and satisfying. Must see television, much to my surprise.
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Ooh! I recorded it - might have to watch it now! 🙂
 
I haven't seen it yet, I will check it out later.
 
ChrisSamsDad said:
Oh dear god, JuicePlus is a bane of modern existence. It's complete nonsense, based on quasi-scientific sounding lies and turns you into a social pariah, because it's a pyramid scheme selling snake oil - I've completely fallen out with a family member and so has most of the rest of the family because she was constantly trying to tell you how great it was and how much weight she'd lost by 'JUST USING JUICEPLUS' (plus diet and exercise) and every conversation with her would very quickly come around to it.

It's like being a born-again Christian who makes money for every convert.
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Agree Juice plus should be avoided like the plague, I have a friend who sells it, always going on about what it can cure, according to her if I spend a fortune on her products, I would lose weight, asthma would go, depression would go, basically it will cure everything and anything, in my opinion all that would go is my hard earned cash if I bought it.
 
ChrisSamsDad said:
Oh dear god, JuicePlus is a bane of modern existence. It's complete nonsense, based on quasi-scientific sounding lies and turns you into a social pariah, because it's a pyramid scheme selling snake oil - I've completely fallen out with a family member and so has most of the rest of the family because she was constantly trying to tell you how great it was and how much weight she'd lost by 'JUST USING JUICEPLUS' (plus diet and exercise) and every conversation with her would very quickly come around to it.

It's like being a born-again Christian who makes money for every convert.
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I agree, Chris. She is part of this pyramid scheme & has become quite evangelical about it. She reckons Juice Plus would cure my wife's arthritis & Fibromyalgia.🙄
 
Grannylorraine said:
Agree Juice plus should be avoided like the plague, I have a friend who sells it, always going on about what it can cure, according to her if I spend a fortune on her products, I would lose weight, asthma would go, depression would go, basically it will cure everything and anything, in my opinion all that would go is my hard earned cash if I bought it.
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Juice plus will apparently cure my chronic skin condition (there's no medical cure apart from immunosuppressants if it gets to stage 3, I'm stage 2) and type 1 diabetes. That's extremely dangerous advice. These people have NO health training and should be banned from making such false claims
 
Of course the alkali guy is a conman. You can't change the pH of your body whatever you eat. We are built with a highly responsive and very effective pH maintenance system. When it goes wrong, say in Diabetic KetoAcidosis, you are in deep doo-doos, but normally you can't induce excess acidity in blood even if you eat a whole jar of pickled onions.

Anybody who promotes a diet that is said to be "alkaline" as a benefit is talking horse feathers from the get go.
 
You might as well try curing an iron deficiency by eating an iron.:confused:
 
mikeyB said:
You're right Mark, any fule kno that you should drink IrnBru🙂
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Yup - made from girrrrders.

I wanted to punch the telly, with that evil man spouting his nonsense and denying responsibility, slimy git. Fortunately - the US Court saw him for what he was, the nasty *******.
 
Zoe Harcombe calls herself a PhD and doctor. She is neither. She has no qualifications other than in maths. She calls herself a nutritionist. She has no qualifications in nutrition. Her opinions are worth nothing at all. She is one of them - air headed purveyors of unscientific bullshit.
 
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