Raw Fresh Foods versus Cooked Processed Foods: Which is better for the Body?

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English 201
May 20, 2013
Raw Fresh Foods versus Cooked Processed Foods: Which is better for the Body?
* Introduction
In the world of diet, health, and nutrition, there are advocacies warning against eating processed foods and there are also advocacies for eating fresh natural foods. There are also discourses regarding cooking whether for or against. I would really like to know what is really what in terms of researching for solid scientific evidence on which is better for our bodies. It is interesting that while there are strong advocacies for eating raw fresh and uncooked food, the dominant practice of the world today is on eating cooked and processed foods. It is also interesting that in the world of instant food, processed foods are preferred by many when the most instant and nutritious fast food are fruits. According to Eric Schlosser in his book, Fast Food Nation, "Americans now spend more money on fast food than they do on higher education, personal computers, software or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos and recorded music - combined ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Schlosser", "given" : "Eric", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2002" ] ] }, "publisher" : "Harper Perennial", "title" : "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal", "type" : "book" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=01a18c48-f13d-4721-a157-dc76f0d10af1" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Schlosser)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Schlosser)." The main thesis of this paper is that there really is a big difference between eating raw fresh foods compared to cooked processed foods and this difference may spell health and disease or even life and death.
At the onset, many if not 100 percent of the people would say yes to the question as to whether raw fresh foods rather than cooked processed foods are better for the body. But this automatic answer would beg another question. Why are you eating more cooked processed foods rather than raw fresh foods? To this question, people would have different answer but the common denominator to their answers would be this: People don`t see that there is a big difference between eating raw fresh foods and cooked processed foods. The difference is between health and sickness, wellbeing and disease and probable even life and death but most people don`t see this. This is the reason why this research is being made to answer the question: Is there really a big difference between eating raw fresh foods and cooked processed foods? This research is being done in order to put a final answer to this question. This answer should be scientific, defin...