Today’s interesting fact has to do with raw food and diet.

A couple weeks ago, I heard a science podcast where a Palaeobiologist who is also an Archeologist was being interviewd about our ancestors and the food they ate.

He pointed out that our digestive system has been fine tuned to eating cooked foods.

During the interview this he pointed out that given the sources of foods our ancestors had access to, if one of us would slowly starve on a raw vegetable diet as we could not eat enough to provide the nutrients our bodies need.

This suggests that we have eaten cooked foods long enought for our digestive system to rely on it.