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From:	lowfatvegan (209.73.137.179)
Subject:	Re: What humans?
Date:	June 28, 2012 at 5:53 pm PST

In Reply to: Re: What humans? posted by Dr. Doug Graham on June 26, 2012 at 3:47 am:

I would like to contend that:

1) Cooking has been used extensively throughout human societies
for at least 50,000 years, more likely 200,000

2) Without cooking we wouldn't have a modern civilization, our
humanity, and even the 80-10-10 diet by Doug Graham wouldn't
exist

3) You have no evidence to back up your claim that cooking was "not
used worldwide even 5K years ago"

4) At no point in our history did humans eat anything close to
modern raw 80-10-10 diet (unless you count a chimpanzee-like
creature who doesn't speak a "human")

5) No tribe on the planet, even those living in the most remote
corners of the earth, have ever been found to live on a raw food diet.
This should tell you something, at the very least that outside of the
comforts of modern civilization, a raw food diet is simply not
possible.

Animals spend all day long searching for foods and calories. Cooked
foods allowed human beings to free their time, concentrate calories,
and dedicate it to other activities. It may even be what made us
human.

A raw food diet has a lot of value, but for other reasons. Now that we
live in a world where there's an abundance of calories, restricting our
food choices makes sense. However, such a voluntary restriction,
once humans gained the "cooking advantage" would have been
impossible to imagine.

Why? Any tribe that could cook foods would have automatic
advantage over other tribes and races that didn't cook.

Remember, they had no blenders, no imported bananas, and an infrequent supply of low-calorie fruits.

See the work of Nathaniel Dominy, Richard Wrangham, Elizabeth
Pennisi, and many others.

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