>
> >IMO,  cooking caught on because it help to  bypass the instinctive
> >regulation of eating . once the food is cooked or denatured our genetic
is
> >not able to recognise the food very clearly and we don't experience a
clear
> >"stop" ( when taste becomes not so appealing).
> >
> >
> I'm not sure how this, if true, explains why it caught on.  Why would
> the inability to experience a clear stop result in the universality of
> cooking?  Is it simply that cooking makes food appealing in greater
> quantities?

because when you by pass the stop you overwhelem your digestive sytem  with
foods that your body is not metabolically prepare to receive . so the body
will have to either eliminate the surplus or store it .paradoxally this
surplus lead by conterreaction to a chronic malnutrition leading to want to
eat more . also cooking create compounds that are mimicking and disturbing
the neurochemicals and hormones creating addictive behavior the same way any
other drugs do .( from denatured sugar to coffee,  alcohol etc...)
look at the size of  city racoon in comparaison of wild ones ( and it is not
because the food is more availble in quantity in the city here they have
plenty of foods to eat also but it is all raw )
 to eat raw marijuana have no effect but smoked or cooked it does .i never
took any drug in my life apart coffee and sugar  till age 20  ( i am free
from those substances since but i ate raw marijuana  buds and my goat too
without any effect . this because in that state by body had a chance to put
barrier on it at the mouth , digestice system or even cells level  in case i
had leaky gut .

this is only an explanation coming from the experiences of peoples who have
decided to eat by instinct only .
but it is just suffisant to observe an animal who are presented to cooked
foods , first he will be very resistant to takes it but if hungry will
finally takes it and from there if  kept available will choose to eat them
in prioriity to the raw form .
because once your system is overwhelm with certain nutrients ,the instinct
that is working with the raw food that contain them , will block their
ingestion , while the cooked form is not clearly recognised and allways
tastes okay no matter what .

all of this is true everytime the food is denatured , or mixed or seasonned
not only cooked . a food that is not in its natural state will trick our
instinctive recognition by our senses, upsetting the regulation of intake .

> >on top of that once you start to eat beyond what your body wanted to
ingest
> >by bypassing instinctive regulation , your body is blocking by instinct
to
> >the raw undenatured nutrients  that will overwhelm your metabolism while
the
> >same denatured nutrients will not find any barrier to their ingestion .
> >
> >
>
> The implication is that people who cook food eat too much.  Is that your
> claim?

not necessarelly  too much ( there is other mechanisms to suppress appetite
once reach a certain quantity )but more certainlly  not in harmony with
their metabolic needs ( too much of certain nutrients and not enough of
others ).
but it is true that eating raw you need less foods .

 any species have to choose from its environment what part  is going to be
integrated in its being.
it is expected that evolution have created a very fine tuned sytem to insure
the balance  between the species and its environment. the sense of smell and
tastes are determinant in that sytem.
>
> >alcohol; and other drugs  also caught on and it is not because it gives a
> >definite advantage to our species .
> >
> Indeed, alcohol induces a state of intoxication that many (myself
> included) find pleasant.  That would certainly explain why it caught
> on.  But then, the spread of alcohol use was never a mystery.  Perhaps
> your position is that cooking is analogous in that it causes a kind of
> intoxication?

yes ! some new molecules are definitivelly recognised as such by science .
because alcohol is not vital not every body indulge on it , cooked foods are
not recognised as such because we forgot how it feels to not eating it .
every peoples on earth had indulged and this for many generation .cooked
wheat is particularly powerfull in mimicking endorphins . you must have all
experienced withdrawall from it when you went paleo . it tooks me 3 months
to not crave it anymore ( french breads are particularly good )

why don't you just try ? for 3 weeks and see for yourself . if it is not
addictive he should be just so  easy to do it .i guarantee you are not going
to be starving i have done it for 15 years .I can also guarantee you are
going to loose all your extra weight that you are struggling so much to
eliminate for so long .
jean-claude