| To quickly define "eating clean". Lets say you had a daily calorific intake of, oooh, 3000 kcals (purely for example). Now those calories will be made up of fats, protein and carbohydrates. The 3000 could be comprised of baked potatoes, cottage cheese, pitta bread, yoghurt, tuna, broccoli, chick peas etc. OR it could be comprised of Big Macs, pizzas, cola, icecream, high salt/saturated fat ready-meals, pies. Now those are two diets at the complete opposite end of the spectrum and, again, just for example.
The first would be considered clean, the second dirtier than a vintage amsterdam ho!
Both add up to 3000calories, but the former has a far greater nutritional content, where as the latter would be high-glyceamic, or high in saturated fats, or low in essential vits/mineral...you get the picture. For adding quality lean body mass, it is better for you diet to look more like number 1, but of ourse that's not to say that junk food is neccessarily ou the window - that's where cheat days come in, etc. |