• Why does Homo sapiens eat cooked food?

• What kind of combined raw/cooked diet? Making intelligent choices.

• How is the balance of nutrients one obtains affected by eating partially cooked?

• Cooking practices of hunter-gatherers
  • Australian Aborigines
    
  • Food cooked by the Aborigine
    
    • Cockles (mollusks)
      
    • Cunjevoi
      
    • Bunya pine
      
    • Rock or King orchid
      
    • Gymea lily
      
    • Burrawang seed
      
    • Yam-daisy
      
  • The San (Kalahari desert, Africa)
    
  • The !Kung San's main plant foods
    
    • The Mongongo
      
    • Baobab
      
    • Vegetable ivory palm (!Hani)
      
    • Marula nut
      
    • Wild orange
      
    • Sour plum
      
    • Berries
      
    • Wild mango
      
    • /Tan root
      
    • !Xwa water root
      
    • Sha root
      
    • Tsin bean
      
    • Tsama melon
      
  • The traditional diet of the Inuit (Eskimos): Were they the only raw-food culture?
    
  • Comments on hunter-gatherers' health

• Cooking practices of supposedly healthy peoples cited by vegetarian lore
  • The Hunza
    
  • Vilcabambans
    
  • Georgians/Abkhasians

• Comments on cooking and longevity

• Are Instinctive Nutrition and cooking completely incompatible?

• Anecdotal evidence of raw vs. cooked diets in the raw-food community
  • Does Natural Hygiene require 100% raw?
    
  • And what about Living Foods?
    
  • Transcending magical thinking about the properties of raw food
    
  • Effects of reintroducing some cooked food after a long raw period

• In summary

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