> "Sorry, you mean 'the ideas of men'. there are no gods"
>
> How do you know?
I have eyes, ears and brains.
> "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
Sure, we at first ate meat raw and in many examples continue to do so.
Long irrelevant section about cas in meat snipped. As already suggested:
> 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_hea
lthrail19.html"
Yep, as I said using boiling or steaming or microwave, and by the way, use
the water if any in which same was done so as to retain the water based
vitamins. For example, the microwave example above discarded the liquid
and was the basis for great humar and the primary reason it is now
ignored.
>
> No other animal uses fire so the point is moot if
"you don't care about health risks/compromises."
The point was one of logic, animals don't use fire and humans do so any
reerence to animals is moot as to what can be learned from them. Fire
allowed humans to occupy all parts of the globe and the case for
notcooking food is far far far from being accepted as but a fad among some
niche group.
> we compare ourselves.
"No, contrast.."
No, compare, we and the animals are compared as to total package relative
to food use. They don't have fire so any deduction is impossible.
> 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."
Debatable, but as in the start, eat the meat raw as do they if they are to
instruct us; if one thinks that has value.
aka_velcro
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