Pros and Cons of Raw Food Diets
Is there an advantage to eating a raw plant-based diet over a diet of raw and cooked whole plant foods?
This video was scripted and narrated by our Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Kristine Dennis.
For more on raw food, see:
• Is It Safe to Eat Raw Mushrooms? ( )
• Raw Food Nutrient Absorption ( )
• Fibromyalgia vs. Vegetarian and Raw Vegan Diets ( )
• Raw Veggies vs. Cooked for Heart Disease ( )
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Your voice has got higher Dr Greger 😂 It’s still really good.
Protein deficiency…
Very useful – excellent – thank you! 👏
Eating starch is what makes us human, and starch is always cooked.
How you cook it matters as much as cooking it. Fried foods are toxic
Can you look into the correlation between beta-carotene blood levels and health more? Also, you have a lovely speaking voice.
here within the first 25 minutes!
Nice to meet you Dr Kristine Dennis 🙂 idk if you scripted other videos before but this one is good.
I miss “until… they put it to the test”
i do hope the usual “but we don’t know… until we put it to the test” and the like stays hehe
Does this mean Dr. Gregor will stop making most of the videos? I assumed she was going to do the research and he was going to present. Hate to say it but he is a large part of why I watch this channel.
He has 15 years of backlog videos you never saw, it’s all here for free show some gratitude and donate something too, and let the ads play
Thanks for the info doc!
I want my nerdy doc narrator back
What happened to Dr. Greger?
Fruits are the best food to eat. Hard to argue cooked fruit has any benefit. Of course plenty of vegetables are hard to enjoy raw so cooked is sometimes necessary to eat and enjoy (a clear hint that they’re not ideal foods for humans)
Look she’s just put some evidence on the table🤦….
What’s your evidence for your claim???
Very useful – I didn’t know about the nutritional deficiencies of eating only raw!
Thank you!
Our ancestors discovered fire, began cooking foods and their brain size increased. Why return to the pre-fire era?
Welcome, Dr. Dennis!
Whole plants foods for me. Cooked. Thank you
What does the epidemiological evidence show?
She doesn’t really sound like she’s interested in what she talks about. It’s less bland this time but it feels like it was multiple recordings stitched together and that each of the recordings was a simple AI read
They’re doing their measurements wrong. What if it’s lower in the blood because they are eating less of it overall? What if it’s less in the blood because there is higher uptake and utilization by the cells? I see nothing about measuring what they are eating and comparing it to what they measured in the blood. Neither do I see anything concerning biopsies of tissues to try and test what their bodies are able to do with what they have.