From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 08:39:04 MDT
--- gts <gts_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> > Also, doesn't cooking destroy lectins?
>
> Not always, apparently. In the case study I posted in the
> aforementioned
> thread, close to 50% of the employees experienced severe vomiting and
> diarrhea simply because the red kidney beans they ate contained more
> than the average level of lectins. The beans were cooked, but it
> seems they were not cooked enough. Are you willing to guess the
> amount of cooking necessary
> to protect yourself from the lectins in a given batch of beans?
> Personally I would rather just not eat beans.
>
> If I cannot in principle eat something raw then I think I should not
> eat it in the first place. My ancestors did not cook foods until
> fairly recently on the evolutionary time-scale. I inherited their
> genes.
I have to contest this. Cooking of foods dates back several tens of
thousands of years. Dating of camp ash carbon is the primary means of
establishing the historical provenance of anthropological fossils for
the paleolithic period. Ten or twenty thousand years is plenty of time
for evolution to adjust a digestive system.
=====
Mike Lorrey
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