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Mind your language

‘Clean eating’ is a great word of the year… for 1906

A century ago this currently modish phrase had an entirely different meaning

21 November 2015

9:00 AM

21 November 2015

9:00 AM

The word of the year, according to Collins, the dictionary people, is binge-watch. It means to watch DVDs consecutively or, more voguishly expressed, a box-set back-to-back. But I was taken by the runner-up, clean eating.

This is a trend. There is a magazine called Clean Eating and the definition is not simple.

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