Well, cooked meat doesn't contain vitamin C, unlike raw meats. Plus, cooking reduces the nutrients in raw meats, in a sliding scale where boiling meats annihilates the enzymes and bacteria along with some of the vitamins and minerals, while harsher cooking methods do much worse damage.

 

Re Stefansson/Bellevue Experiment:- I generally wince every time Stefansson is mentioned as  a supposed authority on diet. For one thing, many things he states or claims are contradicted by other anthropologists such as Weston-Price(eg:- re the issue of organ-meats), plus he was famously condemned as a fraud for his other theory re the so-called "Blond Eskimoes" in Greenland, at one point.

 

More to the point, Stefansson is actually described as eating at least some raw meats during his Belluevue experiment(namely raw marrow), and didn't always eat his meats well-done, but sometimes rare. And the experiment lasted only 1 lousy year, and, after a while wasn't even rigorously supervised.

 

As regards malnutrition, there are some raw vegans who don't even show b12-deficiency until many years later, as the body finds ways to conserve b12-levels from other sources etc. 

 

Geoff







 
> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:28:57 -0400
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: How fire made us human
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> william wrote:
> > The higher nutrient content of raw fat meat satisfies because it is as 
> > close as we can get to the perfect food.
> > Eating to excess, as in the same meat cooked, results in malnutrition.
> > This has been demonstrated by those brave enough and/or desperate 
> > enough to try eating raw zero carb.
> >
> > William
> >
> William...can you back this up? How on earth does eating cooked meat 
> result in malnutrition? What do you mean by cooked...well done, medium, 
> etc? Stef and Andersen, in their Bellvue experiment, ate med-well done 
> meat and suffered no malnutrition after one year, so perhaps you can 
> qualify what exactly it is you mean, or provide a source?

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