Here's an interesting article for all raw food enthusiasts:
Cooking and Cognition: How Humans Got So Smart
A few excerpts:
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Learning how to cook food stimulated a big leap in human cognition some 150,000 years ago, a new study suggests.
Cooking breaks down fibers and makes nutrients more readily available, so our digestive systems then required less energy than those of creatures eating all raw foods. This freed calories up to feed our brains, the thinking goes.
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Today, humans have relatively small digestive systems and burn 20-25 percent of their calories running their brains. For comparison, other vertebrate brains use as little as 2 percent of the animal's caloric intake.
Does this mean renewing our subscriptions to Bon Appetit will make our brains more efficient?
No, but we probably should avoid diving into the raw food movement.
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