What makes cooked and processed food so much less healthy?
As soon as you apply heat to food it starts to break down, nutrients are degraded or eliminated. Very often when you’re eating cooked and processed foods there is so little nutrition present that the body has to use its reserves to break it down and eliminate it. The amount of nutrition you’re gaining from it is less than the amount your body needs to process it. You can only go on your reserves so long before your body will not have enough nutrients left to carry out its processes, and then you begin to get deficiencies and the illnesses related with them. The nutrients in food are also degraded by heavy processing, adding all kinds of preservatives and homogenizers and irradiation. These not only cause the nutrition in the food to break down, they are also toxic to the body. When the FDA approves these additives and treatment procedures, their concern is to find the level or amount at which they are not too harmful, which is the level they then approve. But the fact remains that they
