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Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:48:48 -0500
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Ring Breaker wrote:
>
> I am a bit new to the mailing list and paleodieting.  That caveat on the
> table, I thought the point wasn't to not eat cooked foods, but to avoid
> those foods which need to be cooked in order to be edible.  IS this
> incorrect?
I guess it's both. If you have to cook it for it to be edible, the
educated guess goes that you haven't adapted to it completely, since we
haven't had cooking/food processing techniques for too long. However,
cooking also changes the character of the food and thus has potential
for exposing us to something we have not adapted to. Most people
here who limit cooking do it to preserve nutrient content and not
to limit the formation of possible foreign compounds.

Ilya

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