Ingrid Bauer/Jean-Claude Catry wrote:

>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).
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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?

>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 .
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The implication is that people who cook food eat too much.  Is that your
claim?

>alcohol; and other drugs  also caught on and it is not because it gives a
>definite advantage to our species .
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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?

Todd Moody
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>And yes cooking also provide an inner
>exitation of the nervous syatem that lead us to overpopulation , call it
>advantage if you like but it is what is leading our species to extinction .
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>jean-claude
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