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Avoiding foods with ingredients I don't understand.
What do you mean by "ingredients you don't understand"? There's a woo trend that does this, and they usually run from very harmless, everyday stuff.
Exactly, I hear people say "don't eat food with ingredients you can't pronounce", and I'm like "dude, your poor vocabulary skills don't change how healthy a food is".
even if it's rooted in ignorance, it's not the worst strategy for healthy eating. things that contain harmless but "chemical-sounding" things like carageenan, EDTA, methylcellulose, etc. tend to be junk foods engineered to be hyperpalatable calorie bombs.
if "I'll stick to ingredients I know" means someone starts eating more fruits and vegetables, beans, whole grains, etc. they're most likely going to start feeling better.
good results can come from flawed strategies, and people who use flawed strategies are probably more likely to want to learn stuff when they're not being attacked (not that I'm a complete saint in that department I'm still working on being less judgmental myself)
And then people are afraid of Vitamin C ("Ascorbic Acid").
I'm assuming they're talking about things like gums, emulsifiers, stabilisers etc
Get a dictionary. It helps with understanding words you don’t understand.
No shit man. They were adding some kind of proteens in my food. I ain't eating no teen for sure!
I only eat noob teens.