I agree that the "raw food" movement in terms of some claims (that the natural enzymes are needed....err.... what? you digest them into amino acids..) is wrong headed, but... losing nutrition from NOT cooking it? enh?
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Alexander Hollins wrote: > >> But... your stomach acid dissolves it down. the genes from the meat >> don't enter your body. > > True, obviously. That's the whole point of digestion. > > Wrangham makes this point in his discussion of the "raw food" movements in > the U.S. and Germany, which he thinks are misguided. He shows that a > vegetarian diet is fine, but whether you eat vegetables or meat, you need to > cook most of them, or you will suffer from malnutrition. > > Another excellent book about food is by M. Harris, "Good to Eat: Riddles of > Food and Culture." As I recall Harris is an anthropologist with a great deal > of knowledge of biology, and Wrangham is a biologist who knows a lot of > anthropology. > > - Jed > >
