Guest guest Posted December 26, 2005 Report Share Posted December 26, 2005 The study from the previous post listed the most protective foods. You may notice something odd about this list. despite the claim the researchers made about the raw food factor, most of the foods on this list are eaten by most consumers primarily in the cooked form. I suspect there may have been skewing in the sample populations if they had a disproportionate number of people eating raw corn, raw sweet potatoes, raw beans, raw dark leafy greens (by which I assume they included things like collards and kale) and raw garlic. Sure folks do eat some of these foods raw (such as romaine lettuce and garlic), but most of consumption of these foods worldwide is actually cooked. I am thinking of the heavy use of cooked spinach and other green by certain ethnic populations, for example. So I probably wouldn't extrapolate this too broadly. The study was also done in CA, where the white middle class population tends to have less obesity and better health habits than the country as a whole. HIGHLY-PROTECTIVE FOOD Onions Garlic Beans Carrots Dark leafy vegetables Corn Sweet potatoes Citrus fruits Web/Online Coordinator Adult Degree and Graduate Programs Prescott College http://www.prescott.edu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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