naturally-occurring foods /Re: Raw Egg Safety

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Seems to me (in my admitted ignorance) that humans came along and

developed on whatever was available. There are plenty of substances

that humans have figured out are not good for them, even though those

substances are a staple food for other species. The ones we still eat,

our forebears were able to utilize well enough to procreate. That

doesn't mean there's nothing in those substances that are harmful to

us; just that there's more beneficial than harmful.

Who knows what defenses our bodies have come up with to deal with the

relatively-minor amounts of harmful substances in the foods we end up

eating. Then of course, some individuals have problems with certain

substances in foods that most people don't have problems with. That

might not even totally be a function of the part of the world their

ancestors developed in.

Joy

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> > I know what the meaning of the statement was. However, in the context,

> > the meaning was that they 'appreciated' foods in their most natural

> > state, even if scientific evidence might show that it wasn't the most

> > nutritious to eat, or even if it was shown to be harmful. Why - well

> > because the big cheese created it in that form for us to eat.

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> And god or no, I think that's the real point. An egg is produced with

> a white, and of course it starts out its existence raw, but the yolk

> is the most nutritious part and should ideally be consumed raw, while

> the white is best discarded and if consumed at all should really be

> cooked. And then of course there's all the (traditional) processing

> that must be done if grains and legumes and other foods from the

> vegetable kingdom are to be consumed without suffering from phytic

> acid and other antinutrients, and that's not to mention that pretty

> much all our foods, animal AND vegetable, have been drastically

> modified by selective breeding for thousands upon thousands of years

> from their pre-human-intervention states which themselves were in a

> continuing state of change anyway.

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