Running Raw: Cooked vs. Raw Carbs

pigs don't look like very good diggers to me, i don't think they should be eating potatoes anyway

lol "dave the raw food trucker"

for all you raw vegans, go look up the data yourself instead of all falling for Tim VanOrden, whose at best a you tube snake oil salesman.

I see a few people are giving me the thumbs down on my posts. I don't care. You guys should be more critical of this. If raw vs. cooked food were the answer to weightloss, bodybuilders, fitness athletes, doctors, dieticians, weightloss experts, would have been on this DECADES ago. I'm looking in to it now. You guys should do the same. This raw vs. cooked potato argument is actually the crux of the whole raw food argument. If there's no truth to THIS, then the rest is bullshit.

what about the skinny people who eat fast foods everyday, and neve gain body fat?

brushfour -> you are getting way out of line. demanding scientific empirical evidence and then spouting off about tuesday mornings in april. everyone, including the new england journal of medicine knows that it was wednesday morning in May.
i don't know much about dietetics but what if it's less about calorie content and more about something else, that makes this possible. (i'm also not saying that this is possible, i'm just surmising)

O.K...lol...very funny. But seriously, dieticians, health and weightloss professionals, the bodybuilding community and so on, would have discovered this DECADES ago; if you eat the same foods without steaming or boiling them, you'll get just as satisfied from the bulk and fiber of the food item, but the actual calories will be less.  C'mon. This is nonsense. If this were true, then the Raw Food folks would be much leaner then they are. They'd all be walking around at 2% bodyfat, and they're not.

Ok I'm a food science major at the univeristy of maine. It is true that cooked potatoes have a slightly higher bioavailbility of starch. The starch in potatoes has a sorta crystaline srtucture, when heated these structures break down, however many of them form agian when the potato is cooled. Those crystaline starches act as fiber instead of a caloric starch. However this loss of calories is so minimal, while the gain in fiber is quite substatnial (a little fiber goes a long way)

So you're saying ralfeg7, that when you cook a potato, it will lose some of it's fiber. Some may come back after it's cooled, but it's lower in fiber overall due to the cooking or steaming process. And therefore now with less fiber on board due to the cooking, you will not be as satisfied or feeling FULL, so you'll be more likely to consume additional calories from a second potato or some other food item to feel the same level of fullness? You've posted the best answer yet. I'll check into it.

I thank you for saying that someone who is actually using logical science to explain something has the best answer

Rawgasmic, I'm looking for ANY scientific evidence that anyone can produce regarding a 4 oz. raw red potato containing less calories then a 4 oz. cooked red potato. I want to hear from a licenced dietician or The New England Journal of Medicine,...not " Dave the Raw Food Trucker." This whole " don't cook it " to lose weight faster business is just something someone with no credentials made up while shaving in their bathroom on a Tuesday morning in April.