#Cleaneating shots have been flooding the social media like crazy. Food with bright colored ingredients beautifully styled and photographed food that makes us dizzy and jealous at the same time.
When people talk about eating clean, the word seems to change every day depending on who's talking about it or who influenced it. However, drenching your food with coconut oil or making sure that it's free of carbs you're trying so hardly to lose, doesn't mean what you're about to eat or cook are 100% clean.
Anthia Koullouros, a Sydney-based naturopath from OVViO Organics, considers the increase in the use of Instagram may have resulted in our change of how we look at food now.
She also said that while there are a lot of fashionable foods in the market, however the social media's influence on, well almost everything, it has become more difficult to gain popularity and fame because most of the food that is being presented in social media are styled the more than where they got it from.
Be honest, each time you artfully post a food photo before eating it, do you ever ask yourself this: is it for fashion or fuel?
Koullouros says that while originally, our attention on food has been about losing weight, we now lose sight of its real aspect. We carefully focus our attention into the creative side of the food and not what we get from it.
These days, our concept of food is about over the top color, ingredients and presentation. Koullouros added that smoothie bowls have a lot of ingredients that are hard to find and expensive. Sometimes the recipes are also time consuming to prepare. However eating like that everyday won't supply our body with the nutrients we need because it's not balanced. We only eat food like these to treat ourselves with beautiful and sweet foods.
Koullouros call this "Selfie Diet" because we don't eat to fuel our body instead; we eat to satisfy our personal gratification.
