It's beneficial to have some raw vegetables in your diet in the winter since we're so
reliant on cooked foods during the colder months.
Jean de Lery, in the account of his adventures among the Indians of Brazil, about 1557, describes the wooden grating set up on four forked posts, «which in their language they call a «boucan;»
on this they cooked food with a slow fire underneath, and as they did not salt their meat, this process served them as a means of keeping their game and fish.
For example, we found this from the year 1852; read an excerpt from a cookbook which includes a
chapter on cooking food and feeding babies and children:
Gilad speculates that the relatively rapid alterations in human liver genetics might be the result of ongoing changes in diet, such as growing
reliance on cooked food.
The study found that cats
on cooked food developed «behavioral characteristics, arthritis, sterility, skeletal deformities and allergies»
For more information
on cooked food versus raw food diets for our dogs, please check out the articles below: The Pottenger Cat Experiments Pottenger's Cats — A Study In Nutrition Cooked Vs. Raw Foods For Pets