as i said earlier, it's a myth that cooking food affects positive nutrients on a practical level
LadyLorraine Send a noteboard - 02/09/2009 05:34:33 PM
Meat NEEDS to be cooked for health reasons, as you mentioned.
Also, uncooked meat is not anywhere near as digestible. "Raw Meat" is not the same as "fresh meat" you'd eat right off a dead animal. You probably really do not want to hear this, but by the time you get your meat from the store it's partially decomposed by natural means...and that's just fine!! The biochemistry of that early decomposition releases a lot of proteins your body would have a pain extracting on its own, and also makes the meat more tender and flavorful.
Furthermore, cooking your meat has this same effect of releasing proteins to be more digestible, and also releases all those flavorful juices people love. You also create the opportunity for fats to drain off if your goal is to eat nice lean meat.
Raw meat by the time you get it is very difficult for your system to digest, particularly in modern stomachs unused to the tightly bound proteins. You'd get a HELL of a stomach ache, as the person below did.
"Fresh" raw meat is hot and burning with blood and vitality that is quickly draining from the animal. "Raw Meat" as such available to humans these days is far from this and can only be approximated by cooking it.
Yah, I took a whole class about Meat. Can you tell?
Also, uncooked meat is not anywhere near as digestible. "Raw Meat" is not the same as "fresh meat" you'd eat right off a dead animal. You probably really do not want to hear this, but by the time you get your meat from the store it's partially decomposed by natural means...and that's just fine!! The biochemistry of that early decomposition releases a lot of proteins your body would have a pain extracting on its own, and also makes the meat more tender and flavorful.
Furthermore, cooking your meat has this same effect of releasing proteins to be more digestible, and also releases all those flavorful juices people love. You also create the opportunity for fats to drain off if your goal is to eat nice lean meat.
Raw meat by the time you get it is very difficult for your system to digest, particularly in modern stomachs unused to the tightly bound proteins. You'd get a HELL of a stomach ache, as the person below did.
"Fresh" raw meat is hot and burning with blood and vitality that is quickly draining from the animal. "Raw Meat" as such available to humans these days is far from this and can only be approximated by cooking it.
Yah, I took a whole class about Meat. Can you tell?
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This message last edited by LadyLorraine on 02/09/2009 at 05:36:55 PM
Diets: your opinion and would you follow them?
- 02/09/2009 04:09:56 PM
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I will answer no to all of them.
- 02/09/2009 04:12:52 PM
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Perhaps I should clarify, I'm not referring to these as 'loose weight" diets
- 02/09/2009 04:14:26 PM
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Re: Meh. No.
- 02/09/2009 04:19:35 PM
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I think for atkins the energy is based on protein
- 02/09/2009 04:23:23 PM
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You can't spell diet without die...
- 02/09/2009 04:37:07 PM
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I keep defending it and I'm not meaning too...
- 02/09/2009 04:42:15 PM
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- 02/09/2009 04:42:15 PM
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Hence forwards I shall call you the Paleolithic Diet defender
- 02/09/2009 04:54:54 PM
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- 02/09/2009 04:54:54 PM
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Not quite the same ring to it as 'Defender of the Earth'...
- 02/09/2009 08:23:37 PM
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She is young, even 'Defenders of the Earth' have to start somewhere....
- 02/09/2009 10:20:27 PM
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Re: Diets: your opinion and would you follow them?
- 02/09/2009 04:45:48 PM
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how do you fail to get protein
- 02/09/2009 04:50:45 PM
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- 02/09/2009 04:50:45 PM
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Re: Diets: your opinion and would you follow them?
- 02/09/2009 04:58:40 PM
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you copied my answers
*NM*
- 02/09/2009 06:08:34 PM
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*NM*
- 02/09/2009 06:08:34 PM
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IMO
- 02/09/2009 05:01:55 PM
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Comments on a few, just because.
- 02/09/2009 05:18:12 PM
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- 02/09/2009 05:18:12 PM
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Heating food does not destroy a substantial amount of nutrients
- 02/09/2009 05:22:53 PM
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No? I thought it did. I've definitely read some stuff to that effect.
- 02/09/2009 05:25:36 PM
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like i said, it's true enough it can be said...
- 02/09/2009 05:28:55 PM
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That's a very confusing question.
- 02/09/2009 05:09:01 PM
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Follow a specific diet? that would depend on the time scale.
- 02/09/2009 05:13:44 PM
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I'm of the opinion that the Raw Food Movement is the most idiotic thing I've heard
- 02/09/2009 05:15:18 PM
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Whydat?
- 02/09/2009 05:23:23 PM
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as i said earlier, it's a myth that cooking food affects positive nutrients on a practical level
- 02/09/2009 05:34:33 PM
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That being said, Steak Tartare is quite nice when done right
- 02/09/2009 06:11:28 PM
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I like Thanksgiving food, which in moderation is very Mediteranean
- 02/09/2009 06:50:19 PM
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South Beach is the best.....I follow it, sometimes, kind of, no not really.....
- 02/09/2009 07:31:43 PM
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Re: Diets: your opinion and would you follow them?
- 02/09/2009 11:44:00 PM
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i'm just curious, but why are you vegetarian? *NM*
- 02/09/2009 11:46:27 PM
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