"Are there benefits to following a raw food diet?" Topic

"DIETARY fads come and go, but perhaps the most enduring of them all is the raw-food movement. It dates back to at least the mid-1800s when US Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham claimed that people would never become ill if they only ate uncooked foods. The idea that cooking degrades the natural nutrition inherent in foods can seem intuitively plausible. But is it true?

Perhaps the first curious thing you notice when delving through academic journals that have covered this topic is that, although there has been plenty of research on raw-food diets, especially in recent years, …"

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Sorry, still gotta cook my steaks and burgers!

Shagnasty -- cooking steaks and burgers is optional. Of course, you may get worms or food poisoning. But its a free country – the choice is yours.

We have been cooking food for hundreds of thousands of years for a reason. It makes so many more nutrients available that humans have survived in all kinds of environments. Thus raw food diets have a marvelous benefit: they inevitably lead to weight loss.