I offer up this as proof:
I believe raw foods are very important / better.
I offer up this as proof:
I believe raw foods are very important / better.
Cooking = oxidizing. Scavengers eat oxidized food.
No such thing as "normal" humans. We're the only animal that can't figure out what its natural diet would be. Fruit? Raw blubber?
Yes, soybeans, for example - toxic. They're not a natural food for humans.
A few... not many. They're abundantly available from the right sources.
It's common sense. Simple.
Probably most of the chow Plimpton eats is manufactured. It's feed.
You really don't know much about what you are saying. Humans are classified as omnivores, i.e. they can eat animal or vegetable food.
It is? Strange that the human race has been eating cooked food for quite a spell. How in the world did you ever come up with such a half baked idea?
If they're oxidizing their food when they cook it, they'd better turn their burners down or they'll set the house on fire.
A little oxidized crust can add some nice flavor. An oxidized meal couldn't be eaten by a starving dog.
The basic, and often the only, function of cooking is to break down cell walls, not to oxidize your food.
Where do they get this stuff?
Ha! I like this quote: "...the Crooked Timber blog description of contrarianism as "a cheap way of allowing ideological hacks to think of themselves as fearless, independent thinkers, while never challenging (in fact reinforcing) the status quo.?
We have a deep strain of it here, I think.
It's a natural juvenile instinct that drives young animals to leave their parent's territory and become roadkill.
I gave up on the food faddists when Adelle Davis died at age
I really liked her, too, especially after she told us that the best food you could eat was lobster!
There was another one I was reading for a while, an expert on protein and amino acids, who turned me off with a book she wrote around 1980 or so. Until that time, nutritionists were agreed on the essential amino acids and necessary complements. Then the vegans got into the act and it became politically incorrect to talk about amino acid complements. The thing that turned me off of those quacks for good was when she wrote a new book, just after all that turmoil, in which she spent the first few pages apologizing for things she had been saying all her professional life about amino acids and complements.
Christ! Now nutrition, too, is about politics. With virtually NO evidence, those quacks tried to throw out about 40 years of research, because there are, after all, some pure vegans walking around under their own power. Some even win footraces. So all of the science is now supposed to be bunk.
Aargghh. I think I'll have a beer and some nachos to calm down.
The Internet is fertile ground for food "rediscovering." A couple of examples that I couldn't avoid (read, being polite to acquaintances): spelt, and sunroot, both touted as health food. I read up a little on both. Nothing exciting about spelt, but this comment on sunroot was fun to read. "Gerard's Herbal, printed in 1621, quotes the English planter John Goodyer on Jerusalem artichokes: "which way soever they be dressed and eaten, they stir and cause a filthy loathsome stinking wind within the body, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented, and are a meat more fit for swine than men."[15]
Goodyer probably never had a glass of Topinambur (Borbel). The Germans have figured out how to consume that windy tuber.
Regarding the loathsome stinking wind within the body, that's one of the things that makes me appreciate the abstraction and distance involved in communicating via the Internet.
That's why I use my metalworking equipment to make cans out of stainless steel. I use them to can my fresh spinach raw. Yummy... You should try it.
Who mentioned anything about carnivores or omnivores? Eskimos like their blubbery flesh raw. A natural diet would not be cooked.
We've done lots of unnatural things for quite a spell. Sometimes we regret the consequences. Like when the wings fold up and the houses get bigger and we say "Aw shit, I'm not a bird." Other times the lessons are less dramatic.
What was the average life expectancy, back when people ate their food raw?
Oxidizing is 100%, All or Nothing?
Wrong. You hammer a lot of meat?
The fire makes the blood taste good. That's where it got started.
Way back when people were eaten raw?
How "oxidized" are boiled potatoes? Potatoes can oxidize when they're raw and exposed to air but they don't oxidize while they're being cooked.
Once you damage cells and then expose juice to air, you're in for oxidation in a big way -- expecially enzymatic oxidation.
Hammer? Not much. I don't like to beat my meat.
Old family recipe, eh?
Nah, just like your examples. For instance, eating raw blubber.
I'm a Type 1, you dope. What do you think I take? There is only one thing a Type 1 can take.
Type 2 is mostly a lifestyle disease that afflicts the overweight.
Type 1 is a genetic autoimmune disease that doesn't care what you weigh or how you live.
How's your BMI? You're likely losing muscle mass; you ought to get a measure of it -- not with calipers, but with bioelectrical impedance analysis.
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