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We were taught in school that man cooking his food was an evolutionary step up

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11/7/2009 1:27 PM
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We were taught in school that man cooking his food was an evolutionary step up

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Cooking DOES NOT increase digestibility of foods. The more a food needs cooking, the further it compromises health: a prime indicator it is NOT one that you are biologically adapted to. This means you should not be consuming it as a major component of your diet. Our society however, is centered round a cooked food lifestyle. You can still enjoy cooked foods and be healthy to some degree. If you eat cooked foods, practice proper food combining.

Food combining allows your digestion to operate smoothly, without food fermenting or putrefying in your digestive tract. Aim for a minimum of 85% raw food of mostly fresh produce. Use transitional cooked food recipes. Enjoy your food, including your cooked food. But donâ€™t kid yourself. You will NOT achieve optimal wellness unless you consume a â€œClean--Burning Fresh Produce

A person can reverse diabetes, cancer, and a myriad of other diseases just by not eating cooked food. Plenty of raw fruits and vegetables.

I remember having this shoved down my throat in science class along with evolution, that when man started cooking his food, it made him step up on the evolutionary scale. Quite the contrary. Ever since he's been cooking the nutrients out, he's been on the steady decline.

nomuse(NLI)
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11/7/2009 4:42 PM

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Cooking breaks down meat proteins and makes them more readily digestible.

Cooking breaks up the indigestible cell walls of many plants, to allow our digestive system access to the sugars and starches therein.

Cooking also kills parasites that would otherwise translate unharmed from dinner to diner.

As part of the various cooking processes we have, for instance, the leaching which is absolutely necessary to make even simple almond mush a food a human can eat without dying.

This is not to disagree that there isn't a downside to cooking, and that much of the food we consume today is overprocessed.

But untruths about the basic nature of food do not help your just cause.

Anonymous Coward
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11/7/2009 4:48 PM

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Quoting: nomuse(NLI) 779945

Cooking KILLS ENZYMES and cooked food taxes the body of its enzymes and HCL. It's a simple FACT. It also kills nutrients, even a modern mainstream nutritionist will tell you that is FACT.

However, I don't think going fully RAW is the answer either, esp. in cold climates and if you are sickly and weak it could seriously compromise your health. Successful raw foodists ALWAYS live in sunny climates. s226

Anonymous Coward
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11/7/2009 4:54 PM

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Quoting: nomuse(NLI) 779945

OP just got SERVED

some fine cooked meats

Anonymous Coward
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11/7/2009 5:06 PM

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I think op meant produce, not meat.

nomuse(NLI)
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11/7/2009 7:44 PM

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I agree. Perhaps I should have been more explicit. Heat breaks down and denatures proteins.

In addition, early cooking required techniques such as "searing." Searing retains the juices of the warming meat by surrounding it in a layer of carbonized and completely denatured proteins. Not only is the outside of seared meat indigestible, it can actually be harmful.

Similarly, the technology of boiling for vegetables tends to strain out everything but the residual starches (and of course the celluose substructure). Steaming is a better answer but less practiced.

But yet, on the gripping hand, although fresh foods, and particularly, vegetables and fruits are superior to processed foods and particularly meats, this is only possible at two levels of social/technological development.

Without greenhouses, high speed transportation, refrigeration, and other energy-expensive products of a complex industrial infrastructure, fresh foods are not widely available. To most of the developing world, and to most of humanity throughout written history, a good balance of fresh foods was not available. What you could get is seasonal foods, further reduced in healthy affect by severe crop disease and parasites and of course rot.

The exceptions are a small number of island nations, and even they often had local nutritional diseases due to a lack of variety.

We have now the infrastructure that has brought a variety of different seeds and grains and shoots within a limited geographical area, that has made them robust enough to grow in climates and conditions unlike that which they originated from, and that has cultivation tools to include irrigation, amelioration of pests, climate control, artificial lighting, and so forth to permit them to be grown year-round, and the communication and transportation networks to allow that necessary variety of foodstuffs to make it to the consumers.

It really is now, as part of the same processes that over the last few hundred years have given us more and more unhealthy processed foods, that we have the ability to deliver a truly healthy food. Two hundred years ago, living off the land meant living off a monoculture; a restricted and seasonal variety that led to bad nutrition.

Now we can live off a farmer's market. But this is possible not because of turning our backs on technology, but because of a confluence of population congestion and urbanization, so a large number of specialized small farmers could grow between them a variety of crops, and sharing them, avoid the pitfalls of a limited diet.

neteru<>
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11/7/2009 7:45 PM

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i say salad is NOT food! salad is what food eats! :D you hold the remote. [link to www.youtube.com] "For official use only, privacy sensitive: any misuse or unauthorized disclosure may result in both civil and criminal penalties"

Anonymous Coward
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11/7/2009 7:50 PM

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the only real solution is going breatharian. until there, it is only a matter of how much poison you need every day to lower your vibration and numb your senses in order for you to be able to support your existence. the less poison, the better. cooking indeed lowers even more the vibration of the food, making it "heavier" and thus better for your numbing necessities.

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