On November 22, 2002 12:31 am, you wrote:
> Elizabeth Miller wrote:
>snip
. Have you read this very
> detailed and careful analysis of Howell?:
> <http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-cooked/raw-cooked-2b.shtml#enzymes>
>
> Hilary

The evidence from actual experience of many that raw meat is more easily and
quickly digested than cooked is obscured by this sort of learned bafflegab.
Digestion is stil a mystery, and enzymes are as good a postulate as any.

As for reports being out of date, the following quote from a book published
around 1940 still applies well enough. Note that the author uses plain
English rather than bafflegab.



In a crude way, vitamins--enzymes--have  been known for many years. That
there is an enzyme constituent in every living cell, in every being, animal
or vegetable, in animate nature, is as true as reason. Why? Because it is
necessary for reproduction. It has been known that scurvy--a disease newly
named acidosis--is caused by living on foods deprived of enzymes; and it is
as widely known that uncooked vegetables and fruit, taken in abundance, will
cure scurvy, or scorbutus, or acidosis, by supplying the
ferments--enzymes--necessary to attract life. The secret of the
raw-fruit-and-vegetable cure is that scury, or scorbutus, or acidosis, means
that more food has been taken than can be appropriated by the body, and the
body, like a machine, has become choked by waste products and debris to the
extent that decomposition exceeds recomposition; and when enzymes fail to
maintain asepsis, and toxin gains the ascendency, disease is brought on and
death is threatened; for
 toxin destroys enzymes, and, as the enzymic power weakens, life power
weakens, since not enough life can be appropriated out of the living presence
to perpetuate the life of the body.

from "Impaired Health, ITS CAUSE AND CURE, A Repudiation of the Conventional
Treatment of Disease
by J.H. Tilden, M.D. 1841-1950
http://soilandhealth.org