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From: "Ingrid Bauer/Jean-Claude Catry" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: Enzymes and raw food

Let's presume that these were the odds about 100.000 to 200.000 years ago or
maybe more.

Some people had the ability to digest and thrive on cooked food and some had
not. The former also could eat raw food. This resulted in more offspring for
the ones that could eat cooked food and their children survived to a greater
extent, having more surviving children in their turn. Thus they/we would be
formed by evolution to eat cooked food. On top of this, those that could not
digest or thrive on cooked food had other problems, for instance more
parasites or a scarcity of vegetables compared to the others. They simply
got no children, or much fewer and more of these children died.

If this was the case: better survival for cooking individuals and lesser for
raw eaters then the humans would rather quickly become evolutionary adjusted
to eating cooked food. If eating raw food did not necessarily kill them/us
the ability to eat raw food would remain, as it obviously has and it does
not seem to harm us.

A trait can be extinct if another trait has more evolutionary success and
success in the eyes of mother nature is children. Nothing else: surviving
children that have their own children!

We cannot put our finger down somewhere in history and say: That is the
evolutionary correct time that we should try to imitate. There is no such
time. The only thing we can say for sure is that paleolithic time ended
about 10.000 years ago for some of us - for some it was just a two
generations ago. So it does not matter if some people 400.000 years back ate
raw food or what they did 1.2 million years ago. It is far enough in time to
be genetically adjusted for and so is 100.000 years but not 10.000. The
changes from end of paleotimes have been too many and too radical for our
genes to cope with. That's why our body cannot handle cereals and dairies.

In practical life this means we should eat fish, meat, berries, vegetables,
nuts, roots and things we believe that people before farming time would have
eaten.

Eva


> > Very true, there are NO all raw food groups that historians know about.
>
> not since 100 000 years ago if we admit humanity started to cook then
> regularly  . what about before ?
> the evidences of 400 000 years ago of fire pit are very questionable and
> those redened earth and rock found have been also  atributed to other
causes
> than human intent of making fire or even  other cause than wild fire
itself
>
> jean-claude
>