I've had the impresssion that iron overload is more of a problem than  
deficiency, and the item on cooking makes no sense considering that raw  
meat is digested more quickly in humans and obviously uses less energy  
than cooked.

Maybe you found a troll?

William


On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:24:24 -0400, Tom Bri <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> http://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/
>
> This is a nice web site with several current posts list members may find
> interesting. One on Iron deficiency, one on Wrangham and cooking.
>
> Interesting that cooking reduces energy spent on digestion. Mice and  
> pythons
> (!) fed cooked meat, raw, ground and whole.
>
> The mice fed cooked meat grew larger.
>
> Some pretty significant differences in the number of calories gleaned by
> cooking. Lose weight by eating raw?