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Do you have a source for that? The logic seems backwards. Per calorie absorbed, it takes more effort to digest uncooked foods, not less. Some fresh foods, like

by asdflkj 19y ago

Do you have a source for that? The logic seems backwards. Per calorie absorbed, it takes more effort to digest uncooked foods, not less. Some fresh foods, like lettuce, actually take more energy to digest than you get out of them.

edw519 19y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Fit-Life-Harvey-Diamond/dp/1567315194/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202949484&sr=8-2 http://www.amazon.com/Fit-Life-Harvey-Diamond/dp/1567315194/... http://www.amazon.com/80-10-Diet/dp/1893831248/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202949509&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.com/80-10-Diet/dp/1893831248/ref=pd_bbs_sr... http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Revolutionary-Formula-Sustained/dp/0316735507/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202949530&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Revolutionary-Formula-Sustain... http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020121horne/020121toc.html http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020121horne/02... http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020125shelton.pristine/020125toc.htm http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020125shelton.... http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020126shelton.orthotrophy/020126.toc.html http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020126shelton....
- asdflkj 19y ago
  Those aren't very good sources. Amazon links are all weight-loss-oriented "pop" diet books. The genre is notorious for being full of inaccurate and misleading stuff. On that other site, the author's other books include Natural Cure of Cancer. More hilariously, he has "D. P., N. D., D. C., D. N. T., D. N. Sc., D. N. Ph., D. N. Litt, Ph.D., D. Orthp." after his name.
  - dcurtis 19y ago
    So that's like 200 years of school. Does he also have a book about how to live forever?
  - edw519 19y ago
    What a strange comment from a hacker. Sounds like something I'd hear from a PHB. What you call hilarious, many call life saving. I included the soilandhealth.org links for those who may want to learn something without buying a book. Those "golden oldies" are the based upon science that is still unrefuted by better minds than me and you. They are also the basis for many modern works. Modern nutrition books HAVE to use the weight loss angle or publishers won't touch them. Not because the authors care as much as the public is so myoptic. (Hardly anyone cares about their health until they lose it. But almost everyone cares about their weight.) Wanna pick a fight, why not start with Dr. Fuhrman? But first read the thousands of supporting documents footnoted on Pages 251-276 of Eat to Live. If you're going to call data that can save someone else's life "hilarious", you oughta be able to back it up.
euccastro 19y ago
Maybe you need to absorb less calories if your diet is mostly vegetable based? Also, some vegetables contain enzimes that help digestion. I'm no doctor, but even if that particular logic is flawed, I do believe that a diet based on fruit and vegetables does reduce your need for sleep (or rather, that a diet based on processed foods does increase it.) My particular explanation is that such diet is just healthier, so your body has less to "repair", whatever that means. Just like exercise: you'd think all exercise would increase your need for sleep, right? I find I'm actually more rested with less sleep when I do light exercise (which I admit isn't often enough.) Eastern medicine is full of dubious explanations about why some therapies work. I don't believe most stuff I read about why Yoga, Shiatsu, acupuncture, etc. work, but I do believe they work. You can only attribute so much to placebo. Bottom line: stop guessing what should work based on our incomplete knowledge of the very complex system our body is, and just try for yourself. Wake up with the sun, do light exercise, and eat more fruit, vegetables, and generally food that is less processed and more lightly cooked. It can't hurt!

by asdflkj 19y ago

edw519 19y ago

http://www.amazon.com/Fit-Life-Harvey-Diamond/dp/1567315194/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202949484&sr=8-2 http://www.amazon.com/Fit-Life-Harvey-Diamond/dp/1567315194/... http://www.amazon.com/80-10-Diet/dp/1893831248/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202949509&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.com/80-10-Diet/dp/1893831248/ref=pd_bbs_sr... http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Revolutionary-Formula-Sustained/dp/0316735507/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202949530&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Revolutionary-Formula-Sustain... http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020121horne/020121toc.html http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020121horne/02... http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020125shelton.pristine/020125toc.htm http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020125shelton.... http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020126shelton.orthotrophy/020126.toc.html http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020126shelton....

asdflkj 19y ago
Those aren't very good sources. Amazon links are all weight-loss-oriented "pop" diet books. The genre is notorious for being full of inaccurate and misleading stuff. On that other site, the author's other books include Natural Cure of Cancer. More hilariously, he has "D. P., N. D., D. C., D. N. T., D. N. Sc., D. N. Ph., D. N. Litt, Ph.D., D. Orthp." after his name.
- dcurtis 19y ago
  So that's like 200 years of school. Does he also have a book about how to live forever?
- edw519 19y ago
  What a strange comment from a hacker. Sounds like something I'd hear from a PHB. What you call hilarious, many call life saving. I included the soilandhealth.org links for those who may want to learn something without buying a book. Those "golden oldies" are the based upon science that is still unrefuted by better minds than me and you. They are also the basis for many modern works. Modern nutrition books HAVE to use the weight loss angle or publishers won't touch them. Not because the authors care as much as the public is so myoptic. (Hardly anyone cares about their health until they lose it. But almost everyone cares about their weight.) Wanna pick a fight, why not start with Dr. Fuhrman? But first read the thousands of supporting documents footnoted on Pages 251-276 of Eat to Live. If you're going to call data that can save someone else's life "hilarious", you oughta be able to back it up.

euccastro 19y ago

Maybe you need to absorb less calories if your diet is mostly vegetable based? Also, some vegetables contain enzimes that help digestion. I'm no doctor, but even if that particular logic is flawed, I do believe that a diet based on fruit and vegetables does reduce your need for sleep (or rather, that a diet based on processed foods does increase it.) My particular explanation is that such diet is just healthier, so your body has less to "repair", whatever that means. Just like exercise: you'd think all exercise would increase your need for sleep, right? I find I'm actually more rested with less sleep when I do light exercise (which I admit isn't often enough.) Eastern medicine is full of dubious explanations about why some therapies work. I don't believe most stuff I read about why Yoga, Shiatsu, acupuncture, etc. work, but I do believe they work. You can only attribute so much to placebo. Bottom line: stop guessing what should work based on our incomplete knowledge of the very complex system our body is, and just try for yourself. Wake up with the sun, do light exercise, and eat more fruit, vegetables, and generally food that is less processed and more lightly cooked. It can't hurt!