On Jul 26, 4:06 pm, ferr...@ironcity.com wrote:
> "As I said, no other animal willingly/knowingly engages in self
> destructive behavior (eat unnatural cooked food known to have natural &
> synthetic carcinogens, etc)"
>
> Should we assume you refer primarily to meat? If we are to use nature to
> instruct us, we should eat meat raw or at least let age some first to be
> consistent.
>
> Boiling and steaming and microwaving avoids the cancer producing
> substances of intensively browned meat.
>
> No other animal uses fire so the point is moot if we compare ourselves.
> Animals will not hesitate to eat cooked meat when offered.
On Jul 26, 4:06 pm, ferr...@ironcity.com wrote:
> "As I said, no other animal willingly/knowingly engages in self
> destructive behavior (eat unnatural cooked food known to have natural &
> synthetic carcinogens, etc)"
>
> Should we assume you refer primarily to meat? If we are to use nature to
> instruct us
Or use scientific studies, which reflect ancestor's adaptation
(nature)..
"Research leading to the discovery of a series of mutagenic and
carcinogenic heterocyclic amines (HCAs) was inspired by the idea that
smoke produced during cooking of food, especially meat or fish, might
be carcinogenic. More than ten kinds of HCAs, actually produced by
cooking or heating of meat or fish, have now been isolated and their
structures determined, most being previously unregistered compounds
HCAs have now been chemically synthesized in quantity and subjected to
long-term animal testing. When HCAs were fed in the diet, rodents
developed cancers in many organs, including the colon, breast and
prostate, and one HCA produced hepatomas in monkeys. Cancer Sci. 2004
Apr;95(4):290-9.
> consistent.
>
> Boiling and steaming and microwaving avoids the cancer producing
> substances of intensively browned meat.
"In studies at Cornell University, scientists looked at the effects of
cooking on water-soluble vitamins in vegetables and found that spinach
retained nearly all its folate when cooked in a microwave, but lost
about 77 percent when cooked on a stove. They also found that bacon
cooked by microwave has significantly lower levels of cancer-causing
nitrosamines than conventionally cooked bacon"
"One study published in the Journal of the Science of Food and
Agriculture in 2003 found that broccoli cooked by microwave -- and
immersed in water -- loses about 74 percent to 97 percent of its
antioxidants. When steamed or cooked without water, the broccoli
retained most of its nutrients" http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/289113_healthrail19.html
>
> No other animal uses fire so the point is moot if
you don't care about health risks/compromises.
> we compare ourselves.
No, contrast..
> Animals will not hesitate to eat cooked meat when offered.
But no animal intentionally does any preparation to food that either
reduces the nutrients or much less- produces toxins.
Chris
aka_velcro
ReaderRabbit
