{"id":2042,"date":"2011-11-10T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T01:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:05:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T06:05:49","slug":"humans-obtain-more-energy-from-cooked-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/humans-obtain-more-energy-from-cooked-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans obtain more energy from cooked meat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harvard University<\/a> researchers have released the results of\u00a0a very thorough\u00a0study which measured the availability of energy from\u00a0eating meat\u00a0or sweet potato that is\u00a0still raw or has been cooked.<\/p>\n

The observations are fascinating –\u00a0in summary – more net energy is obtained from eating cooked meat than raw.\u00a0 No wonder my hairdresser is as thin as a stick, he only ever\u00a0eats raw food these days.\u00a0\u00a0My conclusion is that if people were eating only raw tucker from Macca’s and Pizza Hut, our obesity epidemic would be reigned in at least slightly, because they’d be obtaining less net energy from the food being consumed (as more energy would be required for digestion, and some would remain undigested).\u00a0\u00a0 (Although they’d have to steady up on the fizzy drinks, as well.) \u00a0Read about the study on the Beef Central website.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Harvard\u00a0University website has other interesting\u00a0information in the same field, such as an article on Richard Wrangham’s book regarding the effect of the invention of cooking on the evolution of the human race, called ‘Catching Fire – How cooking made us human’.<\/a>\u00a0 Richard Wrangham believes that human beings started cooking food much earlier than\u00a0several hundred thousand years ago, as is most commonly thought, due to archaeological evidence.\u00a0 He believes the change in human anatomy 1.9 million years ago is best explained by the advent of food cooking.\u00a0 This brought about physical changes, including a smaller gut and teeth, other changes, such as the ability to\u00a0wean children earlier, and social changes, as much less time was required to gather enough food to provide sufficient energy, and less time needed to be spent actually\u00a0eating.\u00a0 (Richard Wrangham says that if we spent as much time chewing as great apes, we’d spend 5-6 hours\/day chewing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harvard University researchers have released the results of\u00a0a very thorough\u00a0study which measured the availability of energy from\u00a0eating meat\u00a0or sweet potato that is\u00a0still raw or has been cooked. The observations are fascinating –\u00a0in summary – more net energy is obtained from eating cooked meat than raw.\u00a0 No wonder my hairdresser is as thin as a stick, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[147,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4527,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/4527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}