Paleo Phil wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:15:36 -0500, william <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> If Wrangham or his believers had tried eating raw paleo for a few months
>> and then tried cooked paleo they would be singing a different tune.
>>
>> William
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> Even the low-end estimate of 250,000 years is believed to be plenty of time
> for adaptation by all the scientists in the field of Paleolithic nutrition,
> as well as Ray Audette and others.

I'm not aware of any evidence that supports your contention that we have 
adapted to cxooked food. The result of my experiments and AFAIK  all 
others show otherwise.


>  Eating some raw foods certainly provides
> benefits, such as the vitamin C one can derive from certain raw organs, but
> even the traditional Inuit ate cooked as well as raw foods. Can you name a
> single hunter-gatherer people which never eats cooked food? 
>
>
>   
Unlikely that they had any cooked at all during the long Arctic winter, 
as they had no fuel other than the moss used for female "hygiene",  and 
if we consider the easily observed results of eating cooked, why would 
they bother?

William