Health, Food and Skepticism

I recently listened to a podcast by Brian Dunning, a noted Skeptic, about raw foods. He pointed out that while raw foods are great, and are healthy for you, that there is much that is touted by raw-food advocates that is based on, well, at best wishful thinking; including the enzyme theory. And other ideas that are just nonsense, such as "cooked food is poison".

I must concur, that I agree with him 100%. Raw food is delicious, healthy, and incredibly creative as a cuisine. But I don't buy into the "enzymes" concept, or the idea that cooked food is "poison". I'm quite different from most people interested in raw foods, because I adhere to a science based, fact based approach to healthy eating, and i don't follow any kind of natural hygiene theories or other non-science based ideas.

Fresh foods are part of a healthy diet, but raw-food purism, and food spiritualism (the 'life force' in enzymes, for example) are not a part of my interest in raw foods.

Anyway, his podcast transcript is here, for anyone who's interested. Brian Dunning is great. He's logical, his arguments are founded in evidence and science-- and he's really funny too.

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4030