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> > CRONie AP wrote:

> > The raw food fad crowd misses the obvious point that many foods offer
> > more nutritional benefits cooked than raw. ...
> >
> > [and] cooking may kill any harmful
> > bacteria on the food.


CRONie JM wrote:
> Have you ever viewed the video on the pottinger cat studies done
> bt Dr Pottinger in the 1940s? It is available from the Price
> Pottinger nutrition foundation. It demonstrates very convincingly
> the damage to the cats that were raised on predominately cooked
> foods in contrast to the cats that lived on predominately raw foods.

For anyone looking for it, it's "PottEnger," not "PottInger." I confesss
that I haven't, personally, seen the video (and more importantly, I
haven't reaad the original scientific reports), but I have seen the
widely-accepted explanation that the cooked diets Pottenger fed the cats
were taurine-deficient (don't get excited yet, Nerissa). Thanks to their
evolutionary history as carnivores, cats have lost the ability to
synthesize taurine, making it an ESSENTIAL amino for them (animal "RDA"
of 400 mg/kg). If they don't get it in the diet, they develop many of
the same pathologies as Pottenger's cats, including the
transgenerational effects. Humans, by contrast, need taurine but
biosynthesize it, rendering it nonessential or "conditionally essential".

http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-cooked/raw-cooked-1h.shtml#pottengers