How uncooking your food can help you lose weight. On raw food and salads.

In this episode I briefly talk about how cooking and raw food for metabolism and weight loss.

Did you know that, for example, when you eat a cooked egg you absorb about 40% more protein compared to eating a raw egg?

As it turns out, according to the recent evolutionary research, we homo sapiens, might have evolved as a cooking ape. Cooking our food (not only by temperature, but drying, fermenting etc.) allowed us to develop and sustain such a robust and hungry brain, that ultimately made us smarter...
Anyway, to make it short: cooking makes nutrition/energy in foods more available (not talking about some temperature/storage sensitive vitamins) to our bodies, cooking makes digestion on all levels a much easier job - we get more energy from our food with less work.
That's why eating more raw foods with a lot of fiber and not many calories (like salads, raw broccoli or kale etc.) makes it easier to lose weight! You make your body work hard to digest not getting much in return! And digestion is an energy consuming process! It can take up to 30% of your daily energy expenditure!
That's why 100% unprocessed raw food diet works for weight loss that well.
That's why diet high in processed "lazy" foods makes us fat so easy! All the energy and no work, almost instant digestion!

What's the main takeaway?
Eat your raw vegetables to make your digestive system work hard to lose weight easier and faster.
Eat your protein from whole foods, like your meat, eggs and fish - it makes your stomach work hard too!
Fats, sadly, are the easiest to digest, even the good fats. Watch them (all the oils and butters mainly, not fats in whole foods), when weight loss is the main goal.

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