http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghJs8IDFYN0

I know mate. Saw both of them last week and it does make you ask the question "he is extremely skinny!" plus the food and all. crickey.

Looks ill to me.

looks like a serial killer... saw the training video as well, which just didn't make any sense.

i static stuff makes sense but only after full reps - otherwise its over my head. I guess what they are saying is that it can get teh body accustomed to higher weight? or something.

i did a course once on the kind of stuff you can eat raw if in a survival situation and there's plenty of stuff you can actually eat ... but most of it is so much better for you if you do cook it.

With meats, while you can over cook the proteins and denature them to useless fragments, moderate cooking is definitely the best option as it does make them more digestible than raw. With veg the idea that raw has more nutrients is true... but also false because although raw has more nutrients they are far less bioavailable! The nutrients in veg are often stuck behind the cellulose walls of the cells and are hard to get, but gentle cooking will break down the cell walls and release them, and even though the heat destroys some nutrients too the net gain from cooking is greater.

Best way to eat just about anything seems to me to be lightly cooked/unprocessed and fresh. Human beings
began to flourish when they started cooking food - this wasn't a coincidence.

Looked like the 'off' cottage cheese smelt bad and was pretty chuckworthy - I would guess the honey took the taste away though

Dtlv74 wrote:i did a course once on the kind of stuff you can eat raw if in a survival situation and there's plenty of stuff you can actually eat ... but most of it is so much better for you if you do cook it.

With meats, while you can over cook the proteins and denature them to useless fragments, moderate cooking is definitely the best option as it does make them more digestible than raw. With veg the idea that raw has more nutrients is true... but also false because although raw has more nutrients they are far less bioavailable! The nutrients in veg are often stuck behind the cellulose walls of the cells and are hard to get, but gentle cooking will break down the cell walls and release them, and even though the heat destroys some nutrients too the net gain from cooking is greater.

Best way to eat just about anything seems to me to be lightly cooked/unprocessed and fresh. Human beings
began to flourish when they started cooking food - this wasn't a coincidence.

That's interesting, never knew that.

I was slightly surprised at the eating 'beans' raw I have to say, as quite a lot of beans are poisonous when raw and have to be boiled pretty vigourously before they can be eaten - red kideney beans being a prime example

Potato being another thats pretty toxic, raw.

Ader wrote:Looked like the 'off' cottage cheese smelt bad and was pretty chuckworthy - I would guess the honey took the taste away though

Dtlv74 wrote:i did a course once on the kind of stuff you can eat raw if in a survival situation and there's plenty of stuff you can actually eat ... but most of it is so much better for you if you do cook it.

With meats, while you can over cook the proteins and denature them to useless fragments, moderate cooking is definitely the best option as it does make them more digestible than raw. With veg the idea that raw has more nutrients is true... but also false because although raw has more nutrients they are far less bioavailable! The nutrients in veg are often stuck behind the cellulose walls of the cells and are hard to get, but gentle cooking will break down the cell walls and release them, and even though the heat destroys some nutrients too the net gain from cooking is greater.

Best way to eat just about anything seems to me to be lightly cooked/unprocessed and fresh. Human beings
began to flourish when they started cooking food - this wasn't a coincidence.

That's interesting, never knew that.

I was slightly surprised at the eating 'beans' raw I have to say, as quite a lot of beans are poisonous when raw and have to be boiled pretty vigourously before they can be eaten - red kideney beans being a prime example

Yes, and most of the carbohydrate in (uncooked) beans are oligosacharides - long chains of glucose that the body doesn't have the enzymes to break down... but the bacteria in your lower gut do, and thats why beans make you fart!

I should have said in my post that over cooking veg is worse than eating it raw... as you can effectively destroy most of whats good in there. Slight cooking is the way to go....ideally steaming veg is the best way.