[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Importantly, not too long ago, a scientist discovered that the assumption that eating raw and cooked food delivered the same amount of calories was very wrong.

In fact, raw food delivers calories so poorly that for a person to live on a “gorilla diet”, they would have to eat almost continually during every waking hour. Plus they would have perpetual diarrhea.

Following this up, he found research about those on various raw food diets and found that almost all of them suffer from some variety of malnutrition.

He also compared the effects of cooking with those of “mechanical action”, such as chopping or grinding. But the latter only produced marginal improvements in nutrition.

So cooking our food seems to have been a major breakthrough in human development.

[jjsheridan5]

Importantly, not too long ago, a scientist discovered that the assumption that eating raw and cooked food delivered the same amount of calories was very wrong ... He also compared the effects of cooking with those of "mechanical action", such as chopping or grinding. But the latter only produced marginal improvements in nutrition.

Do you happen to remember who this was? Because I have seen a number of studies that have indicated the opposite, or that this effect that you describe is only true for people with seriously compromised digestive systems, or for people with destroyed gut flora.

These things are almost impossible to study in a truly scientific way, so any particular study has to be viewed with a huge amount of salt. But I would like to see how he came to his conclusions.

[fishtank]

The raw food fad is primitivistic, idiotic, narcissistic and anti-human.