Food Noise from Carrie Dennett Is clean eating over? What was it in the first place? Clearing up confusion and bidding adieu February 3, 2026 Clean eating became a full-fledged trend about 20 years ago. It first emerged in the women’s bodybuilding world* before expanding into nutrition and wellness spaces, despite the lack of an official “clean eating” definition or diet. *That’s where I discovered it in 2007 or so when I was deep into diet culture and weightlifting as a means to change body...