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Originally Posted by commonerg
The key to the raw food diet is that any time food is heated above 116 f, the natural enzymes in the food are destroyed forcing the body to produce enzymes to break down the food.
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Sounds kinda quackish to me. The pH in the stomach is 1-2 which usualy denatures most proteins that aren't supposed to work in such an acidic environment and there are different proteases in the stomach, gut and cells that absorb materials from the gut and basically screens what goes from the gut to the inside of your body (blood). If there are whole functional proteins that survive all that I assume they are a rare exception rather than a common case. I know it is not the only 'pro' for raw foods, just saying this particular reseaon behind it sounds bogus to me.
By the way, I think Eric posted somewhere that he noticed that a change in diet leads to improvments that lasted averagely about 8 months and after that the benefits from such diets seem to dissipate. Mayve he can show up and opine.
(I am not trying to discourage you by the way, incase it seems like that)
