It's Cookout Season!

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WARNING! Vegetarians and Vegans—Avert your Eyes!

For you carnivores out there, cookout season is once again upon us.  Get outside, fire up the grill and throw some bovine or porcine flesh on the hot metal grate and enjoy!

Several years ago, I read a scientific hypothesis asserting that one of the reasons, or maybe the primary reason, the human brain had an opportunity to develop so fully was the invention of humans cooking their food.  It seems that a great deal of our energy, maybe as much as 80% (?), was utilized to digest the raw foods early humans consumed.  Especially raw vegetables were problematic.  By cooking food, the energy required to digest food was greatly reduced and that unused energy was then redirected toward brain development.

Another experiment about which I read was to have a test group of human subjects only eat raw vegetables for 30 days—as much as they wanted.  No meat.  Not cooked food at all.  Turned out they ate almost constantly, were never satisfied, lost a lot of weight and the experiment ended early as none could complete it.  It took too much energy to just eat and digest, which seems to substantiate the first hypothesis.

Whether or not the hypothesis was ever proven, I don't know but I found it an interesting assertion.  Now, if someone out there could convince me that our brain really did develop I would appreciate it for there is still a lot of stupidity spread around!  As I like to say, "Stupid is Free" and that is why there is so much of it!  Lol.

Have a great week everyone.

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