Raw vs Cooked Food Debate -Pt.1 (of 6)

[PhoenixWindsong]

Although Susan Weed is a very wise woman I would not suggest eating raw milk or raw meat under any circumstances due to the chance of contamination by deadly bacteria, virii and fungus.

[OddButNormal]

oh and i like the 2 last people on the q-a part and susun saying we are not meant to think about eating.

[OddButNormal]

i eat cooked and 'raw', a little more 'raw' though. it works for me. everyone is different. listen to your body and you will find what is good for you.

[puffyclouddd1]

I agree with both

[moonskyheron]

and there is nothing wrong with having a young soul, just as soon as you can realize you have one you start to grow an old one!! ahahaha!

[moonskyheron]

ancient ayurveda and traditional chinese medicine doctors certainly would agree with susun. The quest for immortality through diet exposes a very juvenile soul.

[moonskyheron]

reveals having a very CLOSED brain despite the raw quality of it. I will always honor both sides of any argument for sake of BROADENING my perspective and I have been a raw foodist, a junk foodist, and a traditional diet as well as a paleolithic one. I love her closing statement HUMAN WERE NOT MADE TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY EAT! that is beautiful!

[moonskyheron]

these responses are hysterical. eat what you want, think for yourself. judge no one for what they eat. a vegetarian doesn't like to be ridiculed by carnivores so a traditional eater much less enjoys being ridiculed by raw foodists. Susun Weed is doing something no one else is, which is QUESTIONING this new raw food fad. But you raw foodiest who judge and nitpick her for being ONE traditional arguer as opposed to the 4000 raw foodists making money off of selling raw food diets and superfoods

[clickswitchh]

Raw food is not healthy 

[northwestblazinfire]

@clickswitchh lol really?? its not healthy huh? not at all ?? hahah wow now cmon

[rainbowsalads]

This discussion is Twisted by the lady called sunsun weed , she is trying to redefine what raw food is and using this approach to defeat an opponent, also to justify boiling up a soup. Its a cancer ridden twisted broth, a one side boxing match.

Enjoy.

[jspankin]

She eats raw meat??????????????????

[jesiyvonnelangdale]

@jspankin sushi....

[Retaw]

Enzymes are chains of amino acids, the building blocks of our own enzymes, proteins and so much more. As Susun so nicely puts it, enzymes are easily broken down in our stomach acid thus making the amino acids available for immediate use! Not possible with cooked food as the enzymes are broken down by the heat. Also, like enzymes, all the protein in our body also is made by our body. The protein we eat is broken down to its amino acid building blocks and then reassembled for our own use.

[StevenBee2]

@liverawkstar That's a flawed use of your logic circuits, Liver. You're drawing your conclusion from anecdotal evidence... or at best from a statistical survey with a sample size of 2. For all you know Susan could be 20 years Bridgette's senior, or have a disease, or just be genetically predispositioned to look as she does at her age. Bridgette could have had $100,000 of face-lifts, or have taken a huge hit of caffeine on the way into the studio.

[liverawkstar]

@StevenBee2

my comment was from a year ago---

Ive definitely gone thru some major shifts my self,

im not even likely the same person I was a year ago honestly-- a person I used to name check all the time was Donna Gates, and now I hear rumors she's had plastic surgery--

[StevenBee2]

The moderator spends 5 minutes talking about what these people do & all the places they teach, but doesn't mention at all what their educational qualifications are... do they have any? Does one have a Masters degree in Biology specializing as a dietitian and the other has a high school diploma? This is sort of an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT factor that was completely ignored

[capricious71]

There's no debate required. Animals do fine on raw. Only humans cook their food.

Don't get me wrong, I love cooked food but raw food is absolutely amazing.

[nyxs60]

I don't know the ages of these women but I would have thought about the same age from their description. However to look at, Brigitte Mars looks way younger. So that speaks for itself.

[neurosearch]

Interesting debate, but what if ALL food that needed cooking actually was bad for the body? What if the people for 250.000 years ago just was plain stupid?

Why should we eat something that is toxic when not cooked?, that sounds a bit strange ;)

Will we ever find the answer?

[t3rr411]

susun weed needs to know everything about food before she opens her pie hole to explain how plants are cultivated.

I know a peach planter who i know doesn't want to poison or ruin people's perceptions about growing some simple plant. The way peaches, apples and other fruit is picked Ripe and just ready, and the exception being a banana because it's grown to be yellow off the tree.

Grow some fruit yourself and see if you want to eat the green plants on them Susun.

[RawHumourTV]

Could it be that they are both right? Why debate and try to make your view right for everybody? Waste of time and very Vitamin L12 depleting!

[ukyfug]

She called her daughter sunflower, case and point for cooking.

[cjjohnsonfamily]

Go Susun!

[80mthomas]

I'm confused because I've been juicing and eating raw for 4 weeks and I feel great, my toenail fungus has gone, my skins glowing, I go to the toilet much more often... I'm sticking with my leafy greens lady...

[tejo29se]

WOW ... 5 loooooooooong minutes for an intro? ... booooring.

And I wouldn't exactly call them young ... well, maybe on the inside, but certainly NOT on the outside.

[todayisthedaytolive]

You can bypass the whole raw vs cooked food debate by juicing greens. This pushes all the nutrients out of the cell wall and only a small amount of the nutrients are lost through oxidation. Cooking food on the other hand destroys half the nutrients, alters the molecules, and it creates toxic byproducts. I agree with susan on one thing, there is no reason to cook animal foods because your body can break it down easily because there is no cell wall.

[tejo29se]

@todayisthedaytolive All living things, plants AND meat, has cell walls. ALL.

[tyroraine]

awesome tunes at the lead in.

[22poopoo]

I watched a programme on bbc called "did cooking make us human?" I son't know if you can watch it in the USA but it's worth a look.

[666BlackMetalSoul]

oh i LOVE Susun Weed

[DarthHuru]

nice second name... weed

i wonder is she likes weed.... :P

[123abc634]

"the point of eating right is to be healthy and look YOUNG"

Young? I agree with healthy, but YOUNG? So, the goal is to stay YOUNG? What about my 86 year old grandmother? She is HEALTHY and VIBRANT, but she would never be confused with YOUNG. That's ridiculous. People eat "right" for health, not youth. If you are eating certain foods to "look YOUNG" then you need to do a little soul-searching. I hold the old crones in high regard, personally.

[tejo29se]

@123abc634 She (Susun) eats raw meat? Eeeeeew, that's disgusting. Doesn't she know that meat is contributing to ageing faster than normal? In Jean Carper's books it says so. I don't think it would hurt to eat a little portion of meat, but this woman eats too much if she doing it for the youth components. Then it works opposite. Too much coffee also makes one sleepy instead of awake. And then she mentions enzymes 20 times per minute, makes me very sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeepy

[almayim]

@tejo29se I eat raw meat, but as mentioned you have to 'cook' it some way. I marinade it in vinegar. However it is not the main way i eat it, just sometimes and it is not harmful. Personally i prefer it stewed, but get plenty of raw milk (have done so my whole life, don't worry, it's quite safe if you are truely not allergic) I also don't think it was ever mentioned that they were eating a certain way to look young.

[stedyplotn]

hi the DEBATE HASA BEEN WON ALREADY during this intro lmao lmao lmao

[liverawkstar]

a basic axiom should be approached here---

visual--

if the person you are listening to or reading DOESNOT look like they are getting the results you want,

why should you listen--

um, visually

Susun does not look healthy to me--

looks kinda rusted and tired

briggette on the other hand---

I see vibrancy

[LarendriaThePagan]

@liverawkstar Perhaps you should look at susan weeds videos. It's like looking at one picture of an actor and deciding if he's a good actor or not, how dumb. Do you even know how old susan is?

[rawbarbie]

I agree with a lot of comments that the way people eat shows up on their body and faces.

[EatTheWeeds]

There are two things usually missing from such exchanges. One is that we have been cooking food for some 250,000 years, perhaps a million. We might have evolved to cooked food in that time (or if a Creationist, we were made eating cooked food.) Also, the food discussed is always modern, cultivated vegetables and meats rather than what was around 10,000 or 100,000 years ago. Another element is the limited digestive system of children and whether, or how, they can extract nutriton from raw food.

[DarthHuru]

erm not rly no, man kind exists more like 60.000 years and it was some time before we learned the idea of fire...

[DarthHuru]

crap i've lost "1", i meant 160.000 years

[reforest4fertility]

@EatTheWeeds What the? That's quite a long memory you have: "we have been cooking for some 250,000 yrs". Where'd you develop that deep sense? All other beings eat as is, raw. Seems your argument might be "they wish they had opposable thumbs. First thing they'd do is cook up a storm". We're the only species who cooks their own gooses. The core-pirates have very quickly turned abundance & a great diversity, multiplicity of food into homogeneous monocrap. Back in the day why would we cook?

[EatTheWeeds]

@reforest4fertility T'isn't my memory, but archaeological records. We may have been using fire for cooking food for as long as a milllion years, enough time to affect evolution (perhaps why our appendix is a vestige.) Cooking increases the availability of nutrients while those it destroys are usually abundant thus not missed. There is good evidence cooking food helps children thrive. Also, cooking increases food choices thus survivibility. Most edible raw plants are modern not ancient.

[almayim]

@EatTheWeeds or fermenting food for children, but of course some call that cooking. Indeed, many wild foods which humans lived on before modern ones were developed (and still do) REQUIRE cooking, many are toxic when raw or cause digestive disturbances, Yet people have used things like acorns, camas, cassava as staple foods for a long time.

[reforest4fertility]

@EatTheWeeds BTW, I totally agree with eating the weeds. Our food is generally grown with accelerators which, along with the lack of decay of diversity in monoculture, leaves our food relatively way empty, nutritionally. Probably the main argument for cooking is digestibility, but our atrophied digestive tracts can be rehabilitated. Then we have the tools of vinaigrette & fermenting.

[tejo29se]

@EatTheWeeds I guess if children have to have raw food they need dense foods like avocado, coconut, nuts and seeds or the like. Otherwise they would be stick figures and that is nasty. Babies have to be a little plump because they grow fast in the first couple of months once born.

[neurosearch]

@EatTheWeeds

*LOL*, even the fact that you believe people have lived 1 million year on the planet is quite hilarious.... can you say 50.000 years. Thumbs down to you bro :) Obtain some knowledge and write back... see you

[EatTheWeeds]

The earliest evidence for controlled use of fire -- versus religious or chance use -- is at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov in Israel, where charred wood and seeds have been dated dated at 790,000 years ago.

[neurosearch]

@EatTheWeeds

Well, I was wrong with my 50.000, source found at Wiki - Fire

[EatTheWeeds]

@neurosearch Understood. Wikipedia is horrible. In fact the internet is a sewer of misinformation. I do original research, use university libraries and professional journals for information. I never cite the internet because it is so often so bady wrong. I never let my students use the internet for a source.

[TsurugiOni]

Preach it Susan!

[LifeOM]

Susan Weed is over weight

[EvasivePerfection]

Love, love, love Susun Weed!!

[Gary1111001]

THE STATE HAS DECLARED ALL PRIOR NUTRITION KNOWLEDGE OBSOLETE!

AND SINCE THE STATE HAS BURNED THESE BOOKS, WE HAVE NO NEED FOR LIBRARIANS.

You have entered the Twilight Zone.

PS - I could tell right off who was raw and cooked.

PPS - A person who consumes dairy shouldn't be talking about the science of natural diets.

PPPS - I suspect this was a joke.

[tigerone1970]

Here's to the Herb. :)

[ginahctsun]

5 hours --- wow alot went into this

[chamokc]

Okey, whenever I go into something about health the first thing I do is observer and look at the person whos giving me this info, cause the point of eating right is to be healthy and look YOUNG. I find it very hard to take anyone serious if they don't meet these characteristics.

[blackbirdsky]

Because one can change their complete genes by what thy eat?

[ThePeacefulpath]

@chamokc Looks really have nothing to do with health. I know people who looked healthier on chemo than ever in their lives and died looking great! I know people who looked wrinkled up and ugly, but are strong and sooo healthy.

[jesiyvonnelangdale]

@chamokc Susun looks more healthy than Brigitte. She's a post menopausal woman, post menopausal women are supposed to have a little extra weight and look the way she does. Brigitte looks super gaunt, I've noticed that from most Raw Food people, they look a little 'plastic surgery'.

[PhoenixWindsong]

@chamokc I think longevity is one of the clear signs that someone is on the right path with their dietary practices. How many elderly vegans and vegetarians do you know?

[coquettetiquette]

All in all this must be the best and most intelligent debate out there about raw vs. cooked.

[Marcoosianism]

I actually found it quite lame for a debate on such an important topic.

Most of Susan Weeds facts were plain wrong and Brigitte Mars had little facts backing up what she said - most was anecdotal and based on the intangible concept of "life energy". Mars is not a good debater, unfortunately. I would have liked to see Weed debate Dr. Douglas Graham instead.

[1q2w3e4r5t6yusername]

5 hours of research? Wow, that 'researcher' must be an expert on enzmes! Oh wait, and she researched for an extra hour for free? She must be a super-expert!

[coquettetiquette]

wow. that actually goes to show just how little research most raw foodists do, and exactly how much thought they put into their major lifestyle choice.

[Gary1111001]

@coquettetiquette Brigitte isn't most raw foodists.

People should put thought into why cooked. But they're born into it. Food in it's natural state is a no-brainer......though there IS a lot of info out there about it.