Hi
As I wrote in a previous post the danger of cooking is often overlooked.
If obviously raw animal food is always more nutricious and healthier, overcooked food is toxic and recognized as a poison by the body as it even increases the amount of post-prandial circulating white blood cells. But overcooking is not just food turning brown or black or burning. Frying, broiling, roasting, grilling, baking, barbecueing, pan-cooking they are all examples of overcooking.
I suggested the best methods of cooking are steaming and boiling, both of which are fixed at 212 F degree: the temperature of boiling water.
If animal food is gently cooked into soups with greens, veggies and watery vegetables not only the formation of toxic substances is prevented but also the phytochemicals are made easily absorbable and vitamins and minerals are retained in the liquid.
Another method I use is to cook with a couscoussier http://tinypic.com/eu32pf.jpg and while the broth boils in the lower pot meat, fish and veggies are steamed in the pot at the top.

But while low heating cooking is important not to turn an healthy diet into a poisons-diet so is raw animal food.
In fact not only obviously paleolithic humans (depending on the geographic area) would eat either an only raw or just partially cooked diet but healthy and non-western traditional population still eat or used to eat raw animal products daily. Whatever written by or based on work of Francis M. Pottenger is a good source of information about the need for raw animal food too.

I would like to start eating some animal raw food but I've to admit I've been so conditioned by the unhealthy western way of life to find it anything but disgusting. I wonder if smoked salmon (which has a different aspect and tastes different than steamed salmon) can be considered raw animal food. I have also seen on television an interview with a raw food chief that showed raw fish and meat fillets that supposedly even people on the SAD diet would eat without problems. I wonder if anyone has already experimented with different kind of edible raw animal food ...

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated

Davide

ok, I'm done cringing.

There was a show a year back called Mad Mad House - one of the people who took part in it is completely into eating raw food, but NOT protien.
here is his site
http://www.davidwolfe.com/

google "raw food diet" - you'll be amazed at all the links!

People in Japan have been eating raw fish since the beginning of time - so to an extent you may be able to do this.

However, I would hesitate to do raw beef - unless you're buying fresh organic beef (like from the market Whole Foods) - what with mad cow and all - you could be putting your health at risk more then from cooking.

anyhow, just my .02

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