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    Max Sargeson Max Sargeson Australia says:
    June 17, 2023 at 5:09 AM

    Riiight, humans have provably been cooking their food over fires for ~400,000 years, and that's just the earliest instance we've yet discovered, if it really did cause genetic "risks" as the article proposes then surely the foolish cultures who cooked their food would've been outcompeted by the raw food eaters at some point in humanity's warlike history.

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    • Hey Corky
      Jimmy BX Jimmy BX Costa Rica says:
      June 19, 2023 at 4:42 PM

      We’re living longer now than we’ve ever had. 300K years ago, humans lasted about 40 years. They didn’t overcook their food 300K years ago. They heated it up barely just to give their meat a different taste. Humans primarily ate raw meat. They also didn’t cook over charcoal in those days, which currently called BBQ. This is where the true carcinogens come from. Open flame cooking leaving meat medium well is NOT a risk for carcinogenic consequences. They couldn’t properly diagnose cancers in those days, you monkey.

      Learn how to perform reading comprehension and learn what styles of cooking they’re referring to, genius. If you can’t cook, then kindly STFU. Laughable how people babble senseless rhetoric on social media without knowing a goddamned thing about the topic.

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      • "They also didn’t cook over charcoal in those days, which currently called
        Max Sargeson Max Sargeson Australia says:
        June 19, 2023 at 10:22 PM

        "They also didn’t cook over charcoal in those days, which currently called BBQ. This is where the true carcinogens come from. Open flame cooking leaving meat medium well is NOT a risk for carcinogenic consequences."

        The article itself, if you actually read it, says otherwise. It implies that heat damage to DNA (not the type of fuel) is the cause of cancer.

        "They couldn’t properly diagnose cancers in those days, you monkey."

        Haha, you idiot, they would still have died from the cancers even if they couldn't diagnose them. You just contradicted yourself btw., you were saying that the wood fires people used in ancient times were safe and not carcinogenic.

        "Laughable how people babble senseless rhetoric on social media without knowing a goddamned thing about the topic."

        What's that saying about stopped clocks?

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      • Also, Jimmy...
        Max Sargeson Max Sargeson Australia says:
        June 19, 2023 at 10:43 PM

        "We’re living longer now than we’ve ever had. 300K years ago, humans lasted about 40 years."

        Yeah, longer life expectancy in the modern age, with a 21st century diet including a lot of cooked food... but, then you go on to rant about how back in the good old days people ate their meat rare or raw (which is healthier). Great way to prove your own premise.

        Anyway, no people did not die of ill health in their 40s in ancient times, it was more like high infant mortality before age 5 + high maternal mortality in giving birth (prior to the invention of obstetrics), which claimed many young women + high levels of warfare and violence which ended many young men's lives. People still lived into their 80s in ancient times. Sophocles made it to 92 years old.

        And of course, you've failed to respond to my point that if cooked food caused so many problems then earth should be dominated by cultures that were smart enough to eat their food raw and live longer/healthier. In recorded history, from Rome to medieval Europe, people usually cooked their meats. We know Mesoamericans did too, from archaeological evidence of their cooking pots, cooked food is such a bad idea and makes you sick, but it was invented independently on both sides of the Atlantic, not to mention among Australian aboriginals. What gives?

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