Eating Clean and Planning for Optimal Health

When it comes to diets, you can count your calories or you can choose your foods more carefully

Clean eating is great for people who want to focus on the nutrition of their foods instead of the quantity of their calories. Kerdkanno/Shutterstock

There are certain large, casual dining establishments I’m sure we’ve all been to that emphasize serving you lots and lots of food on family-sized platters. In doing so, these successful companies try to satisfy their customers’ desire for delicious value. But are we valuing the right things?

Similarly, a diet that is gaining in popularity, called the “If It Fits Your Macros (IIFYM),” allows the people who follow it to eat whatever they want as long as they eat the right amounts of macronutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, and fat. Nutrition takes a back seat to calories.