By: Anonymous
Dear Raw Foodists – there is a simple reason why your diet (while it may keep you skinny – aka “malnourished”) is sub-optimal for the human physiology: FAT SOLUBLE VITAMINS. Vitamins D, A, K2 and B12....
View ArticleBy: zippy
As a person who has studied primitive wildnerness survival, I would say a lot of this jibes with my experiences. I do not know about sub-tropical, or tropical climes, these are outside my circle of...
View ArticleBy: anthropologyworks » Anthro in the news 12/12/11
[...] of the popular book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. He describes his position that cooked food provides more energy than raw food and the role of cooked food in human evolution. “When...
View ArticleBy: Links 12/13/11 | Mike the Mad Biologist
[...] The disappearance of the elephant caused the rise of modern man 400,000 years ago A Democrat Undermines Science Toxic Red Tides Can Attack By Air, Too Why Calorie Counts Are Wrong: Cooked Food...
View ArticleBy: Scott
Rehana, I thought so too. Turns out that’s not the way food calories are measured. They don’t put dried foods in a bomb calorimeter because you would be burning indigestible fiber. So instead they just...
View ArticleBy: Revenwyn
I grew up 100% raw food vegan (from a child to when I was 26) and did not receive my period until I was 27 because of it. Oh yes, and I was still 215 pounds because I was STARVING TO DEATH and my body...
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[...] that one or two cups of lettuce? Packed cups or loose? Two raw mushrooms or two cooked mushrooms (there IS a difference)? The inaccuracy of counting calories and the obsession with calculating...
View ArticleBy: Paleo Girl
I have run into this same question myself. I am a small time chef, and promote paleo lifestyle, but people often say “the paleo man did not eat cooked meat” but so evidence shows they understood...
View ArticleBy: Reducing: An American Pastime « Tethered Swimming
[...] seemingly solid numbers which are the sacred bane of dieters from coast to coast, are probably wildly off the mark (via). The realization of the paltriness of our understanding is disconcerting...
View ArticleBy: Lots of Links « Sceptically Fit
[...] makes us sleepy. Cooking food releases more calories. And grains rot your [...]
View ArticleBy: Day 22: Mon 19th Dec – A bit of meat changes everything « The Journey of...
[...] your body absorbs less calories from raw food than cooked food. So in addition to eating low calorie food, you are probably absorbing even less [...]
View ArticleBy: Good numbers | gingerzingi
[...] is interesting: cooked food provides more energy than raw. So for the WLers among us, subbing raw for cooked might [...]
View ArticleBy: RickRussellTX
@Scott, I think you dismiss @rehana ‘s point too quickly. The bomb calorimeter provides us with an absolute upper bound on calories from protein, fat, and sugars. It doesn’t matter how the food is...
View ArticleBy: Apryl
To my knowledge, just because a woman stops menstruating doesn’t mean she has stopped ovulating. I have heard of MANY raw vegans (through message boards, internet, blogs, etc.) over the years that are...
View ArticleBy: Brad
I Agree with Apryl.. Also.. (in this study) if they kept feeding the mice the cooked diet who knows the future of the mice.. studies have been done showing that when transferring to cooked food health...
View ArticleBy: jan
Well, the author seems to be missing the point. It’s not that raw foods have less calories than we thought. Cooked foods just have more that the labels tell us. Therefore, if we are calorically aware...
View ArticleBy: rob s
Excellent article. Perhaps it could be better stated as: “cooked food provides more energy to the human body than does raw food”. The calorimeter bomb measures the total amount of energy in the food....
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[...] these quantities are determined by lab machines. What our digestive system can actually absorb might be very different. Half as much vitamin B-12 in an easily digestible cooked form might be...
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