Cooked meat does cause illness.  Cooked meat cannot cure diseases as well as raw meat.  There are many diseases where cooked meat just will not do.

What type of diseases are these?
Have you met anyone who hasnt cured there disease because they were simply eating cooked then all the sudden were cured from because they switch to raw meat?

"""Eating Lots of Vegetables:

The islands of sun-drenched Okinawa are lush with rich green vegetation. Deep, green healthy vegetables abound. The surrounding clear ocean waters and coral reefs make island soils rich in minerals, which promotes good crops. Vegetables and medicinal herbs that will not thrive in mainland Japan grow readily in Okinawa.

Yet, the habit of eating vegetables raw has never taken hold in Okinawa. Instead, vegetables are cooked with pork and tofu in Chanpuru, or eaten in Nbushi boiled dishes or used in abundance in soups and for tempura. By cooking the vegetables, more can be eaten than if they are consumed raw. Especially in a dish like Chanpuru, where vegetables are the main ingredient, regularly available vegetables and seasonal vegetables of all kinds are combined and eaten any number of times a week. Carrots, cabbage, bean sprouts, etc., are staples in Chanpuru dishes. As a result, Okinawans end up consuming twice the amount of vegetables eaten by mainland Japanese, according to a national nutrition survey."""
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i agree with SD that for example soda 50 years ago was a treat now its a daily beverage.

i think cooking was initially used to help preserve food in tough times? Then it eventually became the norm.?

What is the healthiest kind of red meat?
Does it really make a difference overall for health benefits, say like Beef vs bison vs lamb, etc.
?

You can find evidence to support any idea you want to have..

Zenei Yogi, president of the Maruichi Meat Co., based in Naha, told The Daily Yomiuri through an e-mail from a spokesman that goat meat is traditionally served in Okinawa "at a time of celebration for such events as housewarming or birth of a new baby. Goat meat is also eaten as remedy for recovery from fatigue after planting rice or harvesting sugar cane."

http://www.soshiok.com/articles/9923
See meat used in celebrations..


I read different stories, I have read modern okinawas eat more meat then there ancestors,, then i read there ancestors eat more milk and meat than current okinaways.. (mainly they more goat and goat milk)

beef is a main staple in my town...

I wonder if those are daily meals or just like special event recipes. Because im not sure how much access to meat these people would of had. it seems they would have slaughters only occasionally and usually before a special event.Sometimes you have to be careful about recipes, im not sure of these were all the time recipes or only on rare occasions/holidays.

i know this forum disagrees on milk... But i do think goat milk , sheep milk are great foods to have.


rawzi thank you that link though.. very interesting

do you have any more links confirming there diet was high fat ish?

I dont think they eat a lot of pork, pork is only like a garnish, the bulk of there meals are whole grains, yams, veggies.

i have heard that eat .8lb of meat a day

about .5lb of fish and .3lb of usually pork or another animal.

I guess the biggest problem for me is texture of raw meat in my mouth... But i have no problem consuming medium rare steaks.
But i do enjoy raw eggs and i take raw liver tablets.

but its all guess work, we definitely dont know eating all raw lots of meat will bring optimal health; for some may enjoy this and feel good but someone like me i always crave cooked food; i dont know why maybe social conditioning. Theres really no living proof. I dont know of anyone over 100 year olds that even eats close to this way from what i been studying

I did find someone who died that recommended a raw food diet; Armand Tanny, people say he use to eat everything raw including meat, he lived to 90. Im not sure if he only folllowed this diet when he was young or continued to when he was 90.

I want to find the optimal human diet, do i guess and hope that a raw meat based diet is best? or do i study living proof? I dont know.

this is why i am here to learn more about this way.

maybe i'll just force myself todo 100% raw for awhile....