
LilJojo
Kraken
- Joined
- May 11, 2020
- Posts
- 3,498
- Reputation
- 3,466
even hunter and gatherer populations, including the Inuit (Eskimos). They too cooked their food and preferred it that way. This is remarkable considering they had no bark or branches to make fire most of the year, and had to use animal fat as a burning oil to slow cook their food all day. (They also ate deer poop, which I just have to throw in here for paleo readers).
Wrangham was unable to find any report of people living long term on a raw wild food diet, but he did provide a generous anthology of groups of people who were forced to endure an all raw wild diet, whether it was purely plants, purely raw meat, or a combination of meat and plants.
I was particularly captivated by the Robertson family who survived for 38 days in a dingy after a whale sunk their ship in 1972. The family survived eating mostly raw fish and turtles and doing some funky stuff with makeshift enemas to avoid dehydration.
Anyway, each story suggested that raw diets do not provide enough energy, even when there is no shortage of food available. These people simply couldn’t extract enough of the nutrients or calories from raw foods.
This was even true with the shipwrecked Robertson’s. They caught more food than they could eat, and despite being given more bone marrow than everyone else, Neil Robertson was disturbingly thin when he was rescued.
Every year in the United States, an estimated 76 million cases of foodborne diseases are diagnosed, resulting in 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths.
There are many disease-carrying pathogens found in raw meats, and they differ according to the source, whether it be mammalian, poultry, or seafood.
Many of the symptoms that result from these diseases involve intestinal damage and can have potentially fatal effects for those at risk. The symptoms of an E. coli infection include bloody diarrhea, severe abdominal pain, and possible complications for the immune-compromised, elderly or children. These complications can include Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) and neurological problems.
The symptoms of Vibrio gastroenteritis include frequent fevers, bloody diarrhea, long duration of illness, and hospitalization.
NEANDERTHALS COOKED THEIR MEAT
(https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/692095#:~:text=The fossil and archaeological record,fire and cooked their food.)
Wrangham was unable to find any report of people living long term on a raw wild food diet, but he did provide a generous anthology of groups of people who were forced to endure an all raw wild diet, whether it was purely plants, purely raw meat, or a combination of meat and plants.
I was particularly captivated by the Robertson family who survived for 38 days in a dingy after a whale sunk their ship in 1972. The family survived eating mostly raw fish and turtles and doing some funky stuff with makeshift enemas to avoid dehydration.
Anyway, each story suggested that raw diets do not provide enough energy, even when there is no shortage of food available. These people simply couldn’t extract enough of the nutrients or calories from raw foods.
This was even true with the shipwrecked Robertson’s. They caught more food than they could eat, and despite being given more bone marrow than everyone else, Neil Robertson was disturbingly thin when he was rescued.
Every year in the United States, an estimated 76 million cases of foodborne diseases are diagnosed, resulting in 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths.
There are many disease-carrying pathogens found in raw meats, and they differ according to the source, whether it be mammalian, poultry, or seafood.
Many of the symptoms that result from these diseases involve intestinal damage and can have potentially fatal effects for those at risk. The symptoms of an E. coli infection include bloody diarrhea, severe abdominal pain, and possible complications for the immune-compromised, elderly or children. These complications can include Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) and neurological problems.
The symptoms of Vibrio gastroenteritis include frequent fevers, bloody diarrhea, long duration of illness, and hospitalization.
NEANDERTHALS COOKED THEIR MEAT
(https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/692095#:~:text=The fossil and archaeological record,fire and cooked their food.)