Cooking may seem unremarkable and second nature since it is has been passed on through generations. It seems necessary since we are told that foods may poison us if they are not sterilized, and a large part of the modern diet, grains, tubers and their flours, are inedible if they are not cooked.
What has been ignored in our cooking culture is the fact that fire is destructive to life - and food is living substance. Cooking destroys many vital nutritional elements and turns others into toxins. Cooking significantly reduces the quantity and quality of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and essential fatty acids, and eradicates valuable food enzymes.
For health, consideration of the way things are naturally meant to be must be kept in mind. Particularly is this so for dogs and cats which have no choice in the matter and are given steady diets of processed (cooked) foods.
The only way food can be preserved for long shelf life is to make it dead and embalmed with high heat and preservatives. But nutritional value and health is being traded away. (Freeze dried foods are an exception if they are not heated above 118 degrees.)
The solution to achieve the best pet food is to select foods that minimize the destructive effects of processing, use supplements that bring life back to food, incorporate fresh and unadulterated raw foods, and keep the diet varied.
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Two adorable adopted foxes romp around the yard at their new home, and with their new "step mom"...
Thought for the day: Mother nature cares nothing of our beliefs and illusions, and she always wins.
Word for the day: glycation - noun: a chemical reaction between sugars, proteins, and fats that occurs when foods are heated. The resulting products, called advanced glycation end products (AGEs), are part of the browning that occurs. Although flavorful, and even added to foods for that purpose by some producers, glycation products are disruptive to biomolecules, proinflammatory, and potentially carcinogenic. Cooking is not the innocent endeavor it is made out to be.
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