I’m wondering if people have some info, and especially ideas and personal experiences about cooking your food. I wondering because of the apparent contradiction between macrobiotics and raw foods diets, being that it is believed cooking your food takes out all of the goodness from it.
Any Food for Though Would be Great!
Any Food for Though Would be Great!
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Re: Cooking?
Thu, November 3, 2005 - 4:24 PMPeace Orion,
May I guide you to a simple book that may give insight of the question that you brought forward. It is called "Zen Macrobiotics" by George Ohsawa. It is a small book with lots of useful information. Please let me know if this helps answer your question...
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Re: Cooking?
Sun, November 6, 2005 - 5:06 PMHi Suba! I actually already have this book, along with one by his wife, and one of his disciples, really good stuff, I love them. I seem to remember it being something like coming makes food easier to digest?
I guess I'm wondering how people who swear by the raw food diet, insist that it's the best way to go. My understanding of the this argument is that having the live enzymes active in raw food is the easiest to digest, or maybe just the healthiest for you? -
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Tue, December 6, 2005 - 5:51 PMno traditional culture (before industrialization and before 1950)from a temparate climate ate a completely raw food diet. The major food in every domestic, non-island or tropical society was a grain of some sort, like barley, wheat, rice, millet or quinoa.....
raw vegetables are GREAT, but I find it counter-intuitive to eat a raw meal that consists of out-of season foods in the dead of winter when it is 9 degrees out. I also find it counter-intuitive to eat hot steaming food in july when it is hot as hell and you are at the beach in the sun....
somewhere between macro and raw I think is the "happy" medium"....eat raw when you need to eat raw, eat cooked whe nyou need to eat cooked...eat intuitively, listen to your body, and the earth, and enjoy.
True nutritional enlightenment lies in balance, harmony, and variety.... -
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Thu, May 25, 2006 - 3:04 PMthere is a lot of input to this topic, raw food vs cooked, in chinese medicine (which is preventative medicine, therefore giving much diet advice), and also learning about our blood types has enlightened me personally to why some people swear by one thing and some by the complete opposite. For both topics there are some wonderful tribes here.
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Re: Cooking?
Tue, September 25, 2007 - 8:12 PMPeople in weak conditions need all of the parasites removed from the produce. You can't scrub the surface of kale, so cooking is the easiest way to do that. And while that's happening, most of the nutrients remain--at least the ones that survive the heat and chemistry of the digestive process. [ Hey, how hot does it get in your stomach? More than 118' F? ]
Cooking helps to release the nutrients by breaking down the celulose which entraps it. That allows our teeth to last a few more years. In many cases you can get more nutrients through cooking. We've been cooking since before our agricultural history. The softening of the stomach is about the only adaptation we have made to our changing diet. The other adaptations are called Cancer.
