Great post @rawinhabitant. I haven't watched the videos but hope to get the chance to soon.
This subject is of great interest to me and I share a lot of the sentiments you express in your words by questioning what it is we should be eating and how we should be preparing it.
I am not the man to give advice on this topic as my diet is far from the best but I do believe you are onto something. From my own research I have discovered that heating our food is indeed bad for us. By doing so we are losing a lot of the benefits as you describe. Microwaves are a definite no as I think I am right in saying they do something to the water molecules inside the food like invert the chemical make up of the molecule so that instead of being a h2o molecule it becomes a o2h . Something like that. I am shooting from the hip here, :) Also I'm pretty sure they have never been allowed in Russia which may or may not be interesting.
I have also come across information regarding eating one meal a day as a positive for the body because it allows optimum time for food to be properly digested rather than eating 3 meals a day plus snacks which means your body is in a constant state or food processing and is never allowed adequate time to rest and recover from this.
If you want to go further there are vegetarians, fruitarians and even breatharians who do not consume food at all yet still live energy high lifestyles.
And if you want to go further still there are those that promote slightly more hard to accept methods for keeping a healthy body such as those who believe in the wonders of urine therapy.:)
How open minded are you? :)
I myself am a vegetarian and have been for about a year or so. I am tempted every day by the familiar aromas of my past and it would be so easy to fall off of the wagon for a day or a week or a lifetime where it not for the fact that I have come to understand that the animals with which we share this world are our brothers and sisters and when we eat their flesh we cast a shadow on our own souls!
These are my thoughts and not intended to cause any offence to anyone who continues to eat meat!
Thanks!
I have pocked around online and learned some about those very same topic except for the microwave and water thing. I'll look into that. I have learned that the microwaves basically destroys food more so then just cooking it on the stove.
I do remember seeing something about a man who had figured out he could light salt water while microwaving it and it would burn. I wonder if by microwaving the water it splits the hydrogen and oxygen in some way.