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Be Weary of Raw Food Diets

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  Posted by smurfn88 (U13987311) on Wednesday, 27th May 2009

  A new book argues that the Raw Food Diet makes it nearly impossible to gain an adequate amount of energy from raw food. Furthermore, cooked food is essentially what differentiates our human selves from apes.
  
  
  

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  Posted by TwinProbe (U4077936) on Wednesday, 27th May 2009

  Hi smurfb88,
  
  As a new poster would you confirm that you are not the author, or related to the publishers, of the new book you seek to promote? The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth now....
  
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  Posted by smurfn88 (U13987311) on Wednesday, 27th May 2009

  Hi, yes I am not the author or related to the author of the book. I started a new Anthropology news blog and wanted to spread the word of not only the blog but of the intriguing article of The Cooking Hypothesis to see other scientific perspectives and responses to the article.
  -SM

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  Posted by TwinProbe (U4077936) on Wednesday, 27th May 2009

  Hi smurfn88,
  
  Thanks for the reply; I'm sorry to have got your designation wrong in my first post. Sorry also to seem suspicious but complete new posters who give no opinions of their own, but rather refer to a website or newly published book often turn out to be self-publicists. There are honourable exceptions of course!
  
  The book may be new but I don't know that the concept is all that original. Undeniably fire technology was a major advance and must have made the occupation of temperate zone regions possible. The ingestion of animal protein provides far more concentrated forms of calories than foraging on fruit and vegetables, and cooking the animal must have made some rather indigestible portions digestible for the first time. On the other hand, until we started ruthlessly hunting them to extinction, large sea mammals and apes managed pretty well without barbecues.
  
  I can't give you exact biochemical details but consuming animal protein must also make our species less vulnerable to inborn errors of metabolism that prevented the synthesis of certain amino acids and other crucial metabolic components. Although equally valuable must have been the presence of lactose in some, but not all, human groups enabling them to consume nutritious dairy products.
  
  The thing that puzzles me about the site you linked to is this modern 'raw food diet' that the author is opposed to; I assume you are really wary of it rather than weary. I know a vegan and several vegetarians none of whom eats more raw food than I do. Indeed they go to some trouble to ensure that their diets are digestible and nutritionally adequate. Could 'raw diets' been more an American phenomenon I wonder?
  
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  Posted by LairigGhru (U5452625) on Saturday, 30th May 2009

  Beats me what this thread has to do with Ancient and Archaeology. Are you lost?

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  Posted by on your toes (U11274411) on Sunday, 31st May 2009

  Try the Food Message boards for an answer to your question. There is a specific Vegetarian Board, they may be able to help

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  Posted by TwinProbe (U4077936) on Sunday, 31st May 2009

  Hi LairigGhru & Moira,
  
  I think the theory espoused by the original poster suggests that the cooking of food permitted various evolutionary possibilities crucial to the development of H.sapiens. This being the case I think that posting on A & A was reasonable.
  
  Having said that I do find it very disappointing for new posters to post on one issue only, not give their own personal opinions, and never follow up replies. It does make me wonder what their motivation might be.
  
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  Posted by Gavin Corder (U732634) on Monday, 1st June 2009

  Don't feed the troll!

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