It's perfectly possible to lose weight on a cooked diet if one restricts the supply of food. It's also possible to low weight on a cooked, low-carb diet. However, plenty of nutritionists have pointed out that going (cooked) low-carb just means losing a lot of water-content as carbs increase water-retention.

And my main point was that since food-intolerance to grains is an important factor re weight-gain due to grains(or as regards dairy for that matter), that there may well be a similiar intolerance to cooked-foods thus leading to a bigger belly. 

As regards the going back 100 years comment, it's basically unfounded. After all, 100 years ago, they had much higher activity-levels so would have been better placed to work off the fat gained from eating cooked foods(plus native tribes from 100+ years ago, didn't overcook their foods like we do, which would have helped re weight-loss.

Geoff




> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:29:42 -0400
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: How fire made us human
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> Geoff sez:
> 
> 
> > For example it's been suggested by many scientists  that highly processed=
> > foods are a key factor behind obesity=2C so there's no reason to suppose 
> > that less-heavily processed foods such as boiled grassfed meats  don't also =
> > cause obesity in a similiar fashion.
> Why assume it's the fact they they are 'processed' as opposed to what 
> they actually consist of, ingredient-wise? Speaking anecdotally, I've 
> lost 30lbs eating cooked meat and fat (and previously, cooked veg) and I 
> know, personally, many others who have done so as well. Scientifically, 
> one can go back 100 years or so and see the results of a diet of cooked 
> meats, fats, veg (and even dairy) on obese people. I don't doubt that 
> processed foods are a culprit in obesity, but it seems (from the 
> evidence we have) that it's isn't the cooked part that's the problem, 
> it's what those foods consist of -- wheat and other grains, vegetable 
> oils, etc etc and so forth.

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