Why clean eating is bad for you: The damaging psychology behind the latest health fad.

[Kali]

also origins of some bigotry, disgust morality, Hitlers cardigan, and cheeseheads.

https://www.precisionnutrition.com/clean-eating-bad-for-you

In psychology, this is called the contagion heuristic.

There are lots of examples of it. Most people wouldn’t, for instance:

drink apple juice out of a perfectly sterilized bedpan;
drink juice from a glass that previously held a perfectly sterilized cockroach;
eat soup that was stirred with a brand-new comb; or
eat chocolate fudge shaped like a pile of doggy doo.

In other words, we feel like “impurity” or “dirtiness” can “infect” or “contaminate” objects, regardless of whether those objects are actually clean.
Magic makes morality

First observed in the 1800s by European anthropologists and ethnographers studying various civilizations, the idea of “impurity” is important to humans symbolically.

And food is particularly symbolic.

Food is intimate. We put it inside us. It literally becomes us.

Good article, read the whole thing and ignore the ad at the end (or ask me about it, I have had quite some success!)

[Lifelong Protester]

1. "Cheeseheads"???

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Thanks, Kali, for that fascinating article!

He really lays out very clearly what is going on between us and our food.

K&R

[Squinch]

3. Danish salted licorice? Are they kidding? That stuff is AWESOME! And in Sweden, they

put the salted licorice in chocolate!

I wish I had some now...

[X_Digger]

4. aka how to de-woo your food :) Nice article. n/t