Nicola, you wrote: "Raw food compounds are colloidal and tend to be hydrophilic, meaning that they attract liquids. Thus when we eat a salad or some other raw food, the hydrophilic colloids attract digestive juices for rapid and effective digestion. Colloids that have been heated are generally hydrophobic - they repel liquids, making cooked foods harder to digest. However, the proteinaceous getlatin in meat broths has the unusual property of attracting liquids - it is hydrophilic - even after it has been heated."
http://forum.zeroinginonhealth.com/showthread.php?tid=2125&pid=48837#pid48837Have you changed your mind, or are you just re-examining your views to make sure they're sound?
As for Charles, I've seen him write that he doesn't like raw or rare meat or organs mainly because he doesn't like the taste. He did write: "I can get away with it [raw meats] sometimes but if I push it too many times in a row, I'll have loose stools. I wouldn't call it diarrhea because I don't get any cramps or any discomfort, it's just really loose."
http://forum.zeroinginonhealth.com/showthread.php?tid=2125&pid=124807#pid124807Charles has frequently written that he doesn't believe raw meats are substantially less healthy than cooked, he just doesn't want people talking too much about them and possibly scaring people away from his forum. In support of raw meats, Charles wrote on 06-23-2009: "After [infants] wean at about two years old, they can go directly to meat, even raw meat and be just as content [as they were on breast milk]." He also wrote: "our raw friends regularly eat raw meat and don't have [parasite] problems. Perhaps, we can pass these things without harm if the rest of our system is not compromised. There clearly was a time in our history when people did not cook things so thoroughly and yet they were able to ward off whatever existed in their food."
http://forum.zeroinginonhealth.com/showthread.php?tid=2125&pid=10803#pid10803Delfuego eats essentially raw beef jerky (usually 90, and sometimes 105, degrees F) in his pemmican. He says he can't digest cooked meat, so he could hardly be cited as an example for eating cooked meats.
Caroline wrote: "raw meat has NEVER given me any problem whatsoever."
http://forum.zeroinginonhealth.com/showthread.php?tid=2125&pid=124207#pid124207Suzanne actually claims she eats raw meat: "I was eating my raw meat dinner in my dad's hospital room and of course the nurse had to walk in at the second. She goes missing all day long when I need her, but magically appears as I sit eating a raw steak in the cardiac unit. I am pretty sure she went back and told all the staff some crazy lady is eating a raw steak, lol."
http://forum.zeroinginonhealth.com/showthread.php?tid=2125&pid=47171#pid47171As a matter of fact, at least three of the staff members there eat raw meat (Suzanne, Catin and Jeff)! Other members there also eat raw meat: Nyteez, Karb Killa, and Marnee. I haven't noticed anyone there saying they have problems digesting raw meat or that it a raw meat diet has made them chronically ill or anything negative like that.
