clean eating

[ kleen-ee-ting ]

/ ˈklin ˈi tɪŋ /

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noun

the dietary practice of reducing one’s consumption of processed and refined foods in favor of whole foods, as a means to promote or sustain good health: The recipe for this fresh, organic salsa is in her book about clean eating.

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Origin of clean eating

First recorded in 2005–10

Words nearby clean eating

clean and jerk, clean as a whistle, clean bill of health, clean breast, clean-cut, clean eating, clean energy, cleaner, clean food, clean-handed, clean hands

How to use clean eating in a sentence

At the time, her posts mostly criticized the food industry and promoted clean eating.
How Clean-Eating Rhetoric Is Shaping the Anti-Vax Movement|abarronian|November 9, 2021|Outside Online
A 2020 cross-sectional survey of 1,266 young adults published in the journal Nutrients found that over half the participants had heard of clean eating and thought of it as healthy, but that their definitions of clean were all over the place.
There Are No Rules for Healthy Eating|Christine Byrne|January 22, 2021|Outside Online
What celebrity has started to talk about his or her eating disorder?
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Eating disorders, researchers believed, were essentially more severe forms of disordered eating.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
With Charlie Hebdo, “you really have a clean case here,” Shearer said.
Harry Shearer on The Dangerous Business of Satire|Lloyd Grove|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Binge eating and purging does the same for someone with bulimia.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching to make clean the furnace.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Then a nervous, anxious feeling that takes away my appetite, and prevents me from eating my dinner.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
He could easily tell where the acorns had been hidden, and, a moment later, he had rooted them up and was eating them.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
Although everybody laughed at such a notion, the Worm-eating Warbler declared that he had a right to his own belief.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various