The way it works is to relieve all of the toxins and stress your body is subjected to by 'everyday' dietary mistakes, like cooking food (causing dirty protein for example)
Cooking food can have benefits by oxidizing dangerous compounds in raw foods such as goitrogens, certain enzymes such as thiaminase and pathogens. It can also make certain foods easier to digest and increase certain nutrients.
and wheat (which impairs digestion, and digestion plays a role in more than you can imagine).
Wheat is only an issue in cases of gluten intolerance or true Celiac disease. Otherwise there is not an issue and it can even have benefits such as providing fiber, protein and phytates that bind free iron and heavy metals.
Would steaming for 20-25 mins be considered cooking?
Yes, it only takes about 10 minutes to destroy goitrogens and enzyme inhibitors.
And it's also long enough to break protein down into smaller pieces (peptides and amino acids), these smaller pieces can connect with carbohydrates/sugard and/or creatine (in red meat) and/or nitrates (from vegetables) and form new substances. These new substances are called Hetero Cyclic Amines (HCAs).
And again this requires very high heat. The person was asking about steaming. So show us all proof that steaming vegetables can produce HCAs.
By the way nitrates are common in raw fruits and vegetables. Furthermore it is nitrites that are the issue, not nitrates:
http://curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1449606#i
What is really ironic here is that Moreless used to make the same exact error.
The way it works is to relieve all of the toxins and stress your body is subjected to by 'everyday' dietary mistakes, like cooking food (causing dirty protein for example)
Cooking food can have benefits by oxidizing dangerous compounds in raw foods such as goitrogens, certain enzymes such as thiaminase and pathogens. It can also make certain foods easier to digest and increase certain nutrients.
You're right, that's why we don't eat most of those uncooked foods, because we can't tolerate them without burning them up. What I wish you would come to see is that taking something 'with some good stuff' and torching it to make it palatable is no different than the pharmaceutical companies taking 'good stuff' isolatedly and patching it together to make a 'healthy' pill. You can't cheat nature this easily, and it will have to teach us this time and time again unfortunately. If you just step back and think about it, torching substances to make them edible doesn't make sense when there is completely edible and delicious food (fruit for one example) right there already. No other animal needs to cook to thrive, so why should any health minded individual cook to survive? Unless you are poor and don't value your health, there is no reason to do things the unnatural way, unless you propose that torching things for consumption is natural.
Furthermore, cooking doesn't just do 'good things', it's destructive. It manipulates things, like a 'chemical experiment' each time. The heat from cooking causes new substances to originate from proteins reacting upon carbohydrates. Some of these new substances can cause cancer, brain diseases, and impair neurotransmitter function and metabolism. Raw food, fruits and raw egg yolks or sashimi, contain all the nutrients you need, without heat. So why advocate extremely unnatural and dangerous heat methods of food JUST because people are accustomed to it?
Just to be clear, many of these new substances created from heat are HeteroCyclicAmines, which are indirectly or directly physically addictive.
There's also a lot of harmful additives on most cooked or prepared commercial foods, whose purpose is to make food last longer or taste better. Speaking of tasting better, taste enhancers are largely concentrated protein with lots of physically addictive beta-carbolines. Glutamate indirectly accomplishes the same addictive task. Beta-carbolines are also anesthetic and can cause unnatural constipation in adults.
and wheat (which impairs digestion, and digestion plays a role in more than you can imagine).
Wheat is only an issue in cases of gluten intolerance or true Celiac disease. Otherwise there is not an issue and it can even have benefits such as providing fiber, protein and phytates that bind free iron and heavy metals.
Wheat is an issue to anyone who is susceptible enough to opiod peptides or consumes enough wheat products to become constipated. This is because by nature wheat contains extremely powerful opiod peptides, enclosed in special proteins (there's the gluten) and set free by digestive enzymes. Even worse, most wheat products (bread, pasta, cookies, pastries, etc) are also prepared/cooked proteinacous foods. Due to heat, proteins are chemically changed, and thus some damaged opiod peptides are extremely hard to decompose by enzymes. To add to the equation, some originated beta-carbolines and other damaged proteins inhibit those enzymes further. Again, the only reason everyone who consumes wheat products isn't constipated is because we aren't all equally affected by these opiod peptides, that doesn't mean they're a good suggestion for the population at large. As a runner you should already know why we're affected by these substances. As with almost all unhealthy things, the few benefits it offers is negligent because you can get the benefits from truly healthy food like raw fruit, raw eggs/sashimi without the negative, or even potentially negative, side effects, unnatural heat, dangerous compounds created therewith, etc. Free iron and heavy metals won't be a problem if you consume this diet, there is absolutely no logic in using partially destroyed and toxic foods to help fix the bodies imbalances unless it is strongly needed as in some illnesses or specific problems, as a dietary guideline this is unnatural and ridiculous.
Cooking food can have benefits by oxidizing dangerous compounds in raw foods such as goitrogens, certain enzymes such as thiaminase and pathogens. It can also make certain foods easier to digest and increase certain nutrients.
You're right, that's why we don't eat most of those uncooked foods, because we can't tolerate them without burning them up.
Who said anything about burning them up. You do not have to burn up foods to inactivate the toxic substances in the raw foods and make them more digestible.
What I wish you would come to see is that taking something 'with some good stuff' and torching it to make it palatable is no different than the pharmaceutical companies taking 'good stuff' isolatedly and patching it together to make a 'healthy' pill.
That is a massive stretch. They are not even close, and again the reference to "torching" again is an exaggeration.
No other animal needs to cook to thrive, so why should any health minded individual cook to survive?
Teach them to use a lighter and they would probably do it since they would not have to wait for their food to basically digest itself first. Look at how many predatory animals hang their kills in trees or bury it allowing the enzymes to help break down the raw meats before consuming them. Also keep in mind that we are not lions, or wolves, or cows. We are humans. Do you know why wolves can eat old bacteria ridden meats that would poison a human? Because they produce much higher levels of stomach acid than humans do. It is this higher stomach acid content that kills the bacteria. So just because other animals can eat certain things raw does not mean humans can do the same thing.
Unless you are poor and don't value your health, there is no reason to do things the unnatural way
Hmmm.... Naturally animals that eat meat generally chase down their prey and clamp their teeth down around their prey's neck until dead. Then they rip open the animal and eat the stomach and intestines with its partially digested contents first. Since you are so in to "natural" I take it that this is how you get your raw meat?
Furthermore, cooking doesn't just do 'good things', it's destructive.
If overdone. But you have this "torching" fetish, which is not required for cooking.
It manipulates things, like a 'chemical experiment' each time.
And as we let raw foods sit they undergo a number of chemical changes including the growing of dangerous pathogens. So they are going to pros and cons regardless.
The heat from cooking causes new substances to originate from proteins reacting upon carbohydrates. Some of these new substances can cause cancer, brain diseases, and impair neurotransmitter function and metabolism.
And again eating many foods raw can lead to hypothyroidism, which can increase inflammatory homocysteine that can lead to cancers, heart disease,.............. Eating certain raw foods can also interfere with other things in the body, such as biotin as I have pointed out. Other raw foods can contain liver cancer forming aflatoxins, including raw meats, raw eggs, raw fruits and nuts. Of course cooking can destroy these strong carcinogens. Should I go on?
Beta-carbolines are also anesthetic and can cause unnatural constipation in adults.
Better avoid fruits altogether then since beta-carbolines are found in tomatoes, pineapple, bananas, kiwis, oranges, grapefruit, lemons, apples, pears, raisins, etc. They are also generated by the body.
By the way coffee is loaded with beta-carbolines yet it is classified as a laxative. So how do you explain this?
Wheat is an issue to anyone who is susceptible enough to opiod peptides or consumes enough wheat products to become constipated.
And again anything in excess can be dangerous, even water or oxygen. And anyone can have sensitivities to pretty much anything including the fruits, eggs and meat you advocate. This hardly makes it a major issue. And you fail to take in to account the whole plant chemistry, which I find interesting since you were just complaining about the isolation of specific substances by the pharmaceutical companies. By the way it is not opiod peptides like you keep stating, they are opioid peptides. If we isolate the opioid peptides from the laxative portion of the wheat, which is the bran, of course you are going to get different properties. This is like I have mentioned so many times that if I isolate the coumarins from alfalfa I can get a totally different effect that the whole plant since the alfalfa plant contains counterbalancing vitamin K. So you are no different in your reasoning than the pharmaceutical companies.
By the way you are again overlooking the fact that the body also produces opioid peptides.
Bottom line is that you should do your homework from credible sources before posting so you are not always posting erroneous and misleading "facts" you learned from some propaganda website. I don't have the time to keep correcting your erroneous claims.
Hv you let me down :(
The only person that has let you down is you. You let yourself down when you refused to take advantage of the free FACTS being presented to you so you could further your knowledge. Instead you chose to keep repeating the same proven wrong misinformation.
For instance I had to point out to you that many of the same toxins that you complained about in cooked foods were also found in the raw fruits that you promote and/or are produced naturally by the body. I also had to point out to you that cancer causing aflatoxins found in many raw foods can be inactivated by cooking. And I had to point out to you numerous times about the goitrogens and inhibitors found in many raw foods including the raw fish you advocate. And to top it all off you failed to take in to account that isolated substances such as the opioid compounds you mentioned work differently when isolated as opposed to being present in combination with counterbalancing compounds within the plant. The whole isolated compound thing is pharmaceutical type thinking, which I thought you were against.
So look at all you were given a chance to learn, but decided to ignore it because you did not want to change your mindset despite all the evidence proving your hypothesis wrong. So the loss is really yours.
Thanks for being my guru for so long, your methods of figuring things out used to really impress me, however now you've taken a defensive stance for your cult (didn't used to be a cult) rather than seeking the truth.
It's not a cult at all. Cults are told what to think and do, such as the raw food propaganda sites that tell you that cooking food is evil or something. People here are free to share ideas as long they are not being disruptive, and as long as they are ready and willing to back up their claims if called on them. If someone comes here and keeps claiming over and over that the Purple People Eater is loose in New York City eating people then I am not going to tolerate such made up nonsense. And this is where people are having a problem with your posting. You just keep reposting the same information that has already been proven wrong and that are contradictory to your own claims. So there is no cult atmosphere here whatsoever. If you want to see an example of a cult look at the Moreless forum where you are only allowed to discuss the protocol of the cult leader. If you cannot be brainwashed and will not comply you are banned from the cult as there is no free thinking allowed.
I still don't believe you're peddling your supplement website (on the contrary the 'propoganda' website you mentioned has absolutely no profit or even income streams, and focuses on using modern technology and natural laws to find the best solutions to modern problems.
It makes no difference if a site is for profit or nonprofit, they can still be a propaganda site. All they have to have is a strict agenda to spread misinformation. If you want a great example just look at the Weston Price Foundation, which is my opinion is the most ludicrous propaganda site on the web. Their agenda is to promote their sponsors, the beef and dairy industry. Yet they are still a nonprofit group.
If you seriously (and I doubt it) can't see how cooking is unnatural (this should be common knowledge to anyone) then I guess all hope for you and this forum is lost.
If you would rather ingest the toxins previously mentioned, including those you oppose in cooked foods but that are found in the diet you advocate then go for it. But I have yet to meet a healthy raw foodist, but have seen a number of people who eat cooked, even microwaved, food living close to or past 100.
Good luck patching up the invincible monster of the erroneous cooking diet, I simply don't have time to point out the errors in your responses, as there are so many basic ones it would literally take a book to correct all the wrong concepts and portray common sense like cooking is unnatural to this cult-like atmosphere. Simple question, what did humans eat before we learned to cook.
In order to show me errors you would have to have real facts, which you apparently do not have. You did not even know the same "toxins" that you complained about in cooked food were a major part of the diet you propose. If you were unaware of those simple facts then why should we have faith in any of your other claims. Again people should get their facts from real research sites, not false propaganda sites. It will save people a lot of embarrassment.
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F$#@ they ate fruit and insects, nuts, and small small animals.
I really tried to pay you back for your help, but you're simply another sect of the erroneous 'patch and go' modern world, a little better maybe, still ignorant to the simple truth.
See my last comment.