The logic/lack thereof of the "raw food diet"

[ramanand]

Originally Posted by Moontanman

Consumption of Meat is the reason we have been able to support the evolution of such large brains.

Really????
if you don't mind will you please elaborate your point.This i think is really a good fact to learn about...

[ughaibu]

By coincidence: Nothing beats a home-cooked meal – even for apes - life - 28 May 2008 - New Scientist

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by ramanand

Really????
if you don't mind will you please elaborate your point.This i think is really a good fact to learn about...

Meat eating and big brain development.

Eating meat led to smaller stomachs, bigger brains — The Harvard University Gazette

Stanford, C.B.: The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior.

Intelligence, Evolution of the Human Brain, and Diet

Another idea that cooking had as much to do with big brain evolution as meat.
Evolving Bigger Brains through Cooking: A Q&A with Richard Wrangham: Scientific American

Basically what is said in these articles is that meat is an important factor in the feed back loop that contained growing brains, lessening digestive systems in favor a brain growth, social complexity through hunting organization, tool making, scavenging dead animals, hunting, better quality food (cooked meat, cooked tubers, fruits), higher caloric intake, brain growth after birth, and back to growing brains.

[ramanand]

Thankyou
thank you very much sir...

[ramanand]

Originally Posted by Moontanman

Basically what is said in these articles is that meat is an important factor in the feed back loop that contained growing brains, lessening digestive systems in favor a brain growth, social complexity through hunting organization, tool making, scavenging dead animals, hunting, better quality food (cooked meat, cooked tubers, fruits), higher caloric intake, brain growth after birth, and back to growing brains.

But is it nescessary that bigger brain implies intellegence, or what i intended to ask is that meat diet leds to the evolution of bigger brain but is evolution of bigger brain alone ensures the extensive application of brain power?
The second thing is that all the carnivores also must have bigger brain (proportional to their body size) then why can't they apply their brain power as beautifully as humans does?????

[Michaelangelica]

I am told (by someone who should know) that carrots should be slightly cooked to release their vitamins and/or whatever.

Carrot were not considered "human food" until c 1940