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Originally Posted by ZenGum
I have known healthy vegans, but they were very careful to eat specific foods to make sure they got all the required nutrients, and took multi-vitamins as a backup.
And I saw via 2 or 3 degrees of separation on facebook, someone cancelling their raw food stall at a festival because of ... yup, you guessed it ... food poisoning. Sure, cooking may beat up a few vitamins, but it also kicks the crap out of E-coli.
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Cooking food unlocks the nutrients if a form of predigestion similar to how a fly uses its saliva to liquidity its food. We humans cook our food to help in the digestion process that is why we have the smallest stomachs (proportionally) to all the other primates.
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