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Your Doctor’s Orders A blog by Terry Simpson, MD, FACS
Raw vs. Cooked veggies – which is better?
Dr. Terry Simpson
Follow Your Doctor's Orders
- If you want a healthy, leaner body two simple rules-- eat non-processed food -- and watch your portions
- having an indulgence in food is good- once in a while. Make certain it is a good one- like a good piece of chocolate.
- Not everyone needs to, or should, take an aspirin a day http://bit.ly/bnEDwC
- Lifestyle changes - not a crash diet- provide lasting weight loss
- While consumer confidence is down- the one thing you can invest in that always pays-- is your health
3 Responses to “Raw vs. Cooked veggies – which is better?”
December 14th, 2009 at 6:18 am
There is healing power in poetry:
Corduroy
I want to visit
the corduroy planet
I know it’s out there
somewhere, if not
in the milky way,
then in the cuddly way
I’m in love
with my corduroy jacket
wrapped around me
like a hug on a little boy
when he needs it most.
corduroy is teddy bear skin
corduroy is like the soft side
of every man before he grows
into something coarse.
I want to visit
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I know the beings there are kind
I know the soldiers there
all carry toy guns
and their marching
makes a funny sound.
January 10th, 2010 at 5:33 am
I have an ongoing “discussion” with a friend of mine who is a holistic health counselor about raw vs cooked. I’m in your camp when it comes to the actual nutritional value of what we eat. Humans evolved to eat cooked food. We gain more calories and vitamins from food after cooking has broken it down.
But sometimes I think this very fact, in today’s society, makes raw food “healthy” from an obesity avoidance point of view. In our evolutionary past, the problem was getting enough calories to survive and reproduce. But now, our problem is too many calories. So, from that somewhat backwards perspective, could eating raw foods actually be “healthy” in that it results in a lower caloric intake?
January 10th, 2010 at 10:45 am
The ability of the human to digest the fiber prevents us from getting the most out of vegetables. But cooking them a bit allows our body to get at the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients in the vegetables. So a bit of light cooking is fine for vegetables.
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