Do you really think organic asparagus, served with pre-washed quinoa and coconut oil, will help you have a baby?
Sure it will. Because if you you eat clean, and you spend a lot of time in your active-wear, you must be a good, healthy person. And healthy people deserve to fall pregnant. They also deserve to beat depression, find love, beat acne, escape domestic violence, conquer cancer (Belle Gibson, anyone?).
That’s why that asparagus will help…
Clean-eating is just another tool we use to shame other women, and make ourselves feel better, or more deserving, in the process.
Oh, of course she’s having trouble falling pregnant – have you seen how she eats?
She has no idea what she’s doing to her body by eating gluten.
I’m sure she’d get over her depression if she’d just quit sugar. I mean, I’m just trying to help.
Clean eating advocates.
NO! You are not helping.
You are overlooking real problems, and (in some cases) real heartache, because you’re so absorbed in the feel-good-status of being a vegan, organic, gluten-free, sugar-free, dairy-free, mindful, raw, clean-food eater.
The world doesn’t begin and stop with whatever dietary fad you’ve decided is saving the world. Real life continues, even after you’ve given up meat.
But people forget this. And I don’t blame them. Because, when your insta-feed is filled with raw avocado and organic cacao powder snacks, you can’t help but feel inferior while looking at your kitkat and diet coke.
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So. Now you are shaming those that like to promote healthy living? Have your kit kat and diet coke, instagram that if you like. No one is 'forcing' anyone to live a certain way. I think you may be kidding yourself if you think the food we eat today does not impact our health in any way. But I'm sure it makes the kit-lat lovers feel better to shame the healthy advocates!
Before reading the following rant please put on your tinfoil hat: it will help.
(Start paranoid rant)
The problem is the internet. The World Wide Web has undermined Australian culture to such an extent that we are forgetting to chop down the tall poppies. When some raw food instagramer boasts (including humble bragging) about their healthy life-style, we have forgotten the Australian responses like "It must be hard to be so perfect".
If we want to end the rise of Internet superiority complexes we need to go back to our Australian roots and start calling it out.
If we don't we will end up with Trump (or similar) as our leader.
(End rant)