The Clean Eating Delusion

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57. OK, but then it's ignoring history

We aren't where we are today because people formed their opinions while living in a vacuum. The article focuses too much on faddists, and ignore the real issues. I suspect the author is unaware of the underlying issues.

Eating raw is nothing but pure nonsense. Cooking changes food, mostly for the better, making certain nutrients more accessible and digestion easier. Some types of cooking, or overcooking, (such as boiling vegetables) can remove nutrients from certain foods, but it is not necessary to eat raw in order to get adequate nutrition (and of course, microwaves are no better or worse than any other source of heat).

Raw eating often involves pure pseudoscience, such as the claim that it is better to eat food that is alive, and cooking kills food. Stomach acids also kill food, by the way. Raw claims vary from the pseudoscientific to the mystical, with claims about the essence of food.

So milk that hasn't been heated to hell and gone has no benefit, nor does un-denatured whey protein. The Japanese are wasting their time with Miso, and so is all the world with their fermented vegetables.