"One of the main reasons why eating raw diets is more likely to weight-loss is that raw foods contain higher levels of nutrients than cooked foods, so one doesn't need to eat as much as before to get enough nutrients each day."

This may or may not be true, I don’t know, but studies that I have read have shown that we can absorb more nutrients from cooked food than from raw as the food is easier to break down.  Pound for pound you will get more nutrients from cooked food than raw.

Peter Maxwell