> Norm:
> >Mixing foods, adding condiments and cooking alter both the odor and the
> >flavor.  This causes us to consume what we should not.
>
> Maybe so; maybe not.

Yes, I agree; everything, in nutrition, is equivocal.  In this case, I
lean
toward "maybe so".

All of our choices are partly innate, partly conditioned.  I think
it's
important, in order to learn, to set aside what we think we know ...
to be
receptive to new ideas and to experience things honestly.  With regard
to
food, I think that spicing and cooking is a form of dishonesty; we're
fooling our senses of taste and smell -- and subverting them.  Those
senses
evolved because they contributed significantly to our survival.  I
think
that they're very directly related to the brain, which is very
intimately
related (via hormones, the nervous system and neurochemicals) to the
whole
body.  A healthy brain, in a healthy body, knows what it needs -- and
healthy, well-conditioned senses can lead us to it..

> Wild living animals eat cooked foods (forest fires,
> steam vents, etc), frozen foods (all along the snowline in both
> hemispheres), mix foods (wadging, going back and forth between foods and
> often not eating their foods in instincto-like sequence), even have been
> seen to dip foods into the ocean in an apparent effort to salt them. And
> all animals seem to avail themselves of natural salt licks where ever
> available.

I think that all living things can survive and propagate in conditions
that
are less than the best.  Their health, in those circumstances, will
also be
less than the best.

> Further, the "should not" part is a bit strange in a way. Is there some
> deity keeping score? ;)

In my opinion, there is no deity keeping score ... of anything.  That
is not
to say that "should" should be stricken from the dictionary ... au
contraire.  "Should" invokes the subjunctive case; its reference is
hypothetical -- a construct in the mind of the speaker.  It implies
both
ambiguity (uncertainty) and judgement (decision).  I think that the
intention of instinctive eating is to add to the information that we
use, to
judge.

> Cheers,
> Kirt

Cheers back,
Norm

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I like frisbees, too.