“Clean eating” diets of the kind espoused by food bloggers such as the Hemsley sisters and Deliciously Ella can be a “catastrophe”, according to Dr Mark Berelowitz, an eating disorder specialist.

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Berelowitz said 80%-90% of his patients at the Royal Free Hospital in north London followed clean eating diets, which exclude sugar, meat, dairy products, carbohydrates and gluten.

He said that while adhering to a health regime that excluded carbohydrates and fat was good advice for overweight adults, for teenagers and people who had a troubled relationship with food it could be dangerous....................Read more

Source: The Times