Raw foods or cooked foods?

[methodman535]

I've been thinkin about this a lot from time to time, and its kinda scary but it seems that the more you cook food, the unhealthier it is for you. And if its not unhealthy then its a lot harder to digest.

They have done many many studies on rats that proved that the more you cook food, the unhealthier the rats get. And rats are known to be very very similar to humans in terms of how food and medications affect them.

Meat kinda worries me though cuz if you dont cook it how do you zap all the parasites. Eggs are ok cuz salmolina only sticks to the outside of the shell and you can boil the egg for a second or two and kill it and then pop the shell.
Veggies and fruits...easy to eat em raw.

[Aurovon]

Interesting. I just boil the veges I eat. I eat tuna for meat usually, so whatever. I am not too worried. Only thing I actually cook is eggs.

[ShivaChrist]

Raw I hear is good - but if you get sick from raw meat that's pretty bad. Double edged sword.

[methodman535]

So Im eating a raw egg yolk almost every day now. I mix it up with my spagetti sauce since I am eating that every day now. I also decided to eat raw onions and raw cabbage each day as a sort of cheap and simple salad, cuz Dr Mcarrison had such awesome results when he put desi lab rats on that salad.

[dyaus]

I actually saw a segment on Ripley's Believe It or Not in which a man ate rotten, uncooked meats and inturn it boosted his immune system immensly.

Ofcourse, there were some precautions that he had to take, especiallly in how he selected his meats.

You are right though, when you cook certain foods, it detracts and removes many of the vitamins and minerals. But we are human, and we do have to cook much of what we eat, or we will become tired of eating it. Tis' part of human nature: we need variety.

[methodman535]

Interesting you mention rotten meat. I have read that when a crododile kills a human it doesnt eat the human right away...the croc leaves the human behind a bush for about 3 days and lets the meat rot....the ENZYMES in muscle meat apparently soften human meat up over 3 or 4 days enough where Mr Gourmet Gator feels the meat is tender enough to feed on.

And I have also heard of people "curing" meat by hanging a carcass of a slaughtered animal in the basement for weeks or months....apparently rotting??? But that supposedly softens it. That makes no sense....that you leave meat to rot for ages and ages and ages...and then it finally becomes good enough to eat.