i would just like to add that COOKING destroys most vitamins and nutrients especially Vitamin C
as usual simplicity is the best answer...
raw foods,
non-violent foods - flowers, seed, grains,nuts, grains,berries, fruits, green leafs & stalks
-- one can live healthily off just these - and they are mostly karma-free as well.
when i 'cheat' i go for fish, dairy milk cheese, and eggs and cooking

wyrdric

Actually you are quite wrong Wyrdric. If you would like to create a post identifying how vitamins and which ones are volatile (those are the ones that get destroyed during cooking such as Vitamin C) you should do so with sound scientific evidence, not just an opinion. Minerals are never, ever destroyed during the cooking process and only slow cooking will lyse the plant cells open enough to release them into the broth. This has been proven by nutrition. Vitamins come in many types, and some of them are indeed volatile, such as Vitamin C. But most of the vitamins that are good for you are only liberated again under slow cooking process. That is why soup is so nutritional as backed up by many scientific papers. Please get your facts straight especially if you decide to post comments on another person's posting. Rather I would suggest starting your own post.

Raw foods it has been proven retain most of their phytonutrients (that's including the minerals and vitamins) and simply pass through you. You get very little to no nutritional value from raw foods. Mastication and acids in your mouth cannot break the cell walls to a measureable extent. So again please research before you post.

And I don't usually do this, but in this case I'm going to leave my bio to show that my point of view comes from research. (I am obviously leaving out my real name.)

Jayne Bond has been a practicing herbalist for over 15 years. She comes from a long line of curanderas on her matrilineal side who practiced herbalism for their small communities. Jayne has a degree in environmental science from FDU and Rutgers University, with a master's in molecular plant biology from Princeton University. Her thesis entitled "Four Seasons in the North Jersey Wetlands" which was published in 1994 discussed how plants from different ecosystems were able to assimilate hazardous waste constituents. This thesis video documentary was chosen to compete in the Eastern Science College Conference in 1994. Jayne works primarily as a scientist cleaning up hazardous waste sites through restoration of habitats and remediation of contaminated ground water systems in the New York City metropolitan area. She has played numerous sports, professional softball and football most recently, which gives her a unique perspective on health and nutrition. Jayne has studied with a wide variety of teachers who practice indigenous herbalism in the New England states of America. In 2010 she will be teaching an herbalism class, Ethnobotany of the New England States, which is based on the integration of her plant biochemistry background and the verbal teachings she received as an apprentice herbalist. Jayne currently resides in suburban New Jersey with her two daughters.

good whatever keeps you busy

(i never said minerals btw - but now i will say minds)
you have definitely cheered me up - i was getting all depressed - i guess I was taking my life too seriously - getting all caught up in the ego thing -- thanx for enlightening me
i'll stick to a simpler life - but have fun with all that

oh - welcome back - it's been too quiet around here - we missed you Jayne

wyrdric