Are You Sabotaging Your Food by Overheating It During Cooking?

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Hathorhetep — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:22:19 GMT

Do we read the blog and comments from the top down or the bottom up? the dates are varied - where do I begin?

Fresh food is best. Raw food is natural. Cooked food should be to render it into edible stuff, or to kill germs, harmful bacteria, etc.

HAve any of you ever had Essene bread? it is wheat sprouts ground up and baked at a very low temperature to not kill the benefits of the sprouts. It is naturally sweet, a bit sticky-gooey, but very filling and healthy.

I used to be a tofu maker, but I try to limit it now after reading about the effects of non-fermented soy. I use soymilk because of my lactose intolerance. I'm not sure about seguing into another beverage. I try to use organic (small producers) goat or cow milk when i can, but i get phlegmy and itchy after a few days, although I try to keep my intake at 8 oz. to 16 oz. per day when i can have it. Rice milk is sweetened, like most nut and bean beverages available. When I used to make tofu, the Fresh soymilk ( that day) was slightly naturally sweet without anything added. Bon Sante, everyone!

re: Are You Sabotaging Your Food by Overheating It During Cooking?

Hathorhetep — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:21:57 GMT

Do we read the blog and comments from the top down or the bottom up? the dates are varied - where do I begin?

Fresh food is best. Raw food is natural. Cooked food should be to render it into edible stuff, or to kill germs, harmful bacteria, etc.

re: Are You Sabotaging Your Food by Overheating It During Cooking?

halcyon — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:34:07 GMT

For thousands of years, people have cooked with fire, coals, etc. How hot did those get?

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jackie_lanoue2004 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:18:52 GMT

I think that everyone who responded to this is absolutely right in their own convictions.   Remember the reason we are Americans is that we have freedom of choice. The freedom to choose what types of foods we eat and the freedom to express our opinions.
If you choose not to eat meat, then that is your choice, however, if you choose not to eat meat because it's cruelty to animals, that opens up another chapter in life. If you have never watched any progrmas on life on earth, you should... because life on earth has a balance of it's own. Animals provide the food resources not only for humans, but also for their own survival. So let's look at the simple facts.   The earth provides food for everyone, not just humans, it provides a balance between the species. Watch "Planet Earth" and you will see what makes our world unique.
But it is your "choice" to eat whatever you want. So, if you have a choice of eating natural foods that were introduced to us long ago, or something manufactured, what would you choose?
Good honest farmers across America have had to resort to conditions that they would normally never resort to.,only to survive.
What happens to our food source if every farmer in the US decides they don't want to be farmers anymore, and their heirs want to go into computers? Who's going to suuply the food we need, the government?
who regulates growth hormones and pesticides....
We need to take a stand now...we need more organic foods on the market so we can support the farmers of America who realy care about our health.

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Gino — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:56:18 GMT

I am still reseahing whether of not certain foods should be eaten raw or cooked. Some vebetables, I have read, should be slightly cooked, like tomatoes and carrots, to release the lycopene and beta carotene respectively. Does anyone have the definitive anwser on this? If so, I would really appreciate it. Does anyone know whether or nor seeds and nuts should be soaked before eating? I am still so confused about all this.
Thank you, Gino

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sisterolivia — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:16:28 GMT

Three thoughts....
1 - I thought it was interesting that Sally Fallon said that when you eat meat with cultured veggies like naturally fermented sauerkraut, the carcinogenic part of the meat is turned into free amino acids that the body can use in a healthy way. So, while going mostly raw is so much healthier, it seems there is something you can do while indulging in meat to make it better for you, (along with choosing healthy grass-fed-only organic critters).

2. I remember reading my first raw-food book, especially the part about Pottenger's famous cats. (In fact, it inspired me to find raw dog food to heal my dog's tumor, see pet food post). They made it seem like Pottenger was only about RAW. I was a little miffed when I found out from Sally's book that he also made a big deal about the importance of cooked stocks! Apparently, both raw foods and stocks have hydrophilic qualities that attract digestive liquids and help with digestion. COOKED Broths have been used in healing regimens for centuries. Soup and a salad, anyone?

3 - Re: Low Heat cooking....I like to use my Staub enamelled cast-iron Cocotte (like a baby dutch oven) for slow-cooking things, and the cleanup isn't too bad because it mostly wipes clean...if I have something that sticks, (usually a user error!) it is easy to soak off. But I'm still at a loss for cooking eggs without a real pain-in-the-rear cleanup job (of course I've tossed my nonstick junk). I'm fascinated by the soapstone cookware I've seen on the internet, which is said to have both the slow-cooking heat-retaining qualities of a cast-iron and clay pots and non-stick qualities as well. Has anyone used it and have any feedback about it? It is so expensive to buy and ship, I was hoping to get some feedback from real people before I made a purchase.

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alm260 — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:12:14 GMT

Thank you Luci! I'm glad to see that you have this information now as I posted several weeks ago that heating your foods at low temperatures was the way to go. I do a lot of my meals in the crockpot. I couldn't live without it.

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amote — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:49:34 GMT

Seems every one has a Valid point as to how to eat and what to eat !
We are All different......PERIOD--:o))))
As we learn to try other ways to find our Best way for us.
Last......Marie and I would like to find a person or Family to live with to Share all our different Energies .........while giving Relief to all Stress that shows up in just living in this Satan and his Minions taking over all aspects of life on earth.

Truely,
Sonny and Marie
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Magnolia — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:43:48 GMT

I love Luci's cooking tips. I've been slow cooking for years in my slow cooker. Here's a tip for range top cooking if you have a gas range. I found the lowest setting for the flame (just enough to keep it from extinguishing) was too hot to simmer things like a good soup pot, for a long time, without causing the soup to stick to the bottom of the pot. What I did was, stack two of the individual grates on one burner and that lifted the pot a bit higher off the flame, letting it simmer at a much lower temperature. The result is soup or stew very much like what you would get in a slow cooker.

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robtscot — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:44:27 GMT

Given the fact that you boast an international readership of over a million subscribers is would now seem appropriate to use the international standards of measure within your articles. The use of the Farenheight scale for temperature is now outmoded and used by a minority of the worlds population (of which the USA is a part), the scientific community and the bulk of the worlds population are using Celcius as the standard. At very least take the time to convert your articles and quote both.

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aab — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:57:19 GMT

I personally think cooking is the most ridiculous thing human beings have evolved to do, let me explain why:
You pay a lot of money for healthy organic (or not) food which is absolutely loaded with enzymes, vitamins, etc., then you pay an absolute fortune in electricity or gas to destroy all that nutrition in the food you just paid for, already this is an absolutely ridiculous thing to do. But it doesn't end there, because most of the nutrition and all the enzymes have been destroyed, it takes a lot of energy to digest plus you need to eat 3-6 times more before feeling full since there's barely any nutrition left, this causes both obesity and nutritional deficiencies. Additionally, 99% of things people cook become carcinogenic and the fats turn to trans fat, which makes most cooked food cause cancer and heart disease, which are the 2nd and 3rd leading causes of death after conventional medicine. Wouldn't you think people would stop cooking their food when it makes it cause the 2nd and 3rd leading cause of death?

I'll stick with my raw diet, thank you. For those who enjoy paying high price for nutritious food and then high price to destroy that food, go right ahead! But don't whine about high energy bills, being fat, sick or if you end up with cancer or heart disease, cooking food is a ridiculous thing to do with ridiculous health consequences.

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aab — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:50:56 GMT

Most cooking causes the formation of acrylamides, a known carcinogen. Anything with carbs and fat will form acrylamides as well as all animal products when cooked. Every meat forms acrylamides when cooked, which is probably why study after study shows that even just one small portion of meat per week is enough to DOUBLE your chances of getting most cancers, and that's if it's eaten only once a week, imagine those who eat it 4, 5 or more times a week! I also heard a doctor say, but this not see the science on this but I'm pretty sure she was referencing a study, I'd have to check, that a charcoal grilled steak has as many as one carcinogenic chemical as smoking 600 cigarettes.

Also anything that's fried becomes highly carcinogenic and forms trans fats (most fats will turn to trans fat with most types of cooking). My diet is 90-95% raw and I definately feel much better when I eat raw food, even if it's the same food raw VS. cooked. Any cooking, even very low temperature will also destroy 100% of the enzymes which normally make the food self-digest, but if you eat your food cooked your body has to generate the enzymes you destroyed by cooking the food, the energy needed to digest 3 cooked meals a day is as much as 8 hours of heavy labour. When you eat your food raw, the only way it's supposed to be eaten, it self-digests and doesn't waste tons of energy digesting denatured "food". Additionally, when eating cooked food you must eat 3-6 times more before you feel full due to the mostly destroyed nutrition, and you'll still suffer from nutritional deficiencies and calorie excess due to the cooking. Dr Mercola as well as many other well informed doctors recommend a minimum of 50% raw food in your diet, with 100% being the ideal.

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Kevin Rose — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:24:47 GMT

HOW DID MERCOLA GET BRIDGIT JONES TO DO HIS VIDEOS.

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T_B — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:54:15 GMT

Excellent idea. Hope 150% cooking time is long enough.

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BOBINPANAMA — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:48:11 GMT

Actually any heating over 118 deg. F. kills all the enzymes in the foods. All foods should be eaten with the live therein as Dr. Christopher used to say. Do the research for yourself and see.

Robert