In a message dated Wed, 22 May 2002  8:01:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Philip Thrift <[log in to unmask]> writes:

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>"We" have been cooking about as long as we have been hunting big game
>and we are adapted to both.
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>Philip Thrift
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but hasn't that adaptation taken the form of autoimmune disease and obesity in the case of eating foods which are intolerable raw?

I also eat my food cooked, but only foods which I could eat raw and tolerate, no, more than tolerate, thrive on.

I'm just stepping back and looking at this thread.  Someone posts that a certain class of food appears to make them sick.  We look for reasons and ways for them to be able to eat these foods without getting sick.  This reminds me of the old joke about the man who goes to the doctor and says it hurts when I lift my arm and the doctor says, so don't lift your arm.

It seems the most basic of survival skills to know that if a food makes you sick, don't eat it, regardless of how much someone else says it ought to be good for you.

Kathleen