In the western world roasting poultry, meat and vegetables is one of the most popular ways of cooking food. The problem with this kind of cooking is that if the fat in the meat and poultry is allowed to burn it can turn into something that is carcinogenic. According to science a carcinogen is any substance that can potentially cause cancer. This may be due to the ability to damage the genome or to the disruption of cellular metabolic processes. An example of a carcinogen is tobacco smoke of inhaled asbestos. Thus eating roasted food does not help the body to heal or cure itself of diseases or to prevent diseases naturally due to lack of nutrients in the food and the free radicals that are produced in the roasted foods that harm the body.
The other bad effect of roasting food is that some water soluble vitamins such as vitamin C and B complex vitamins are lost in the roasting process. The extent of the loss is dependent on the lengths of the roasting process and the temperature. The longer the period and/or the higher the temperature the more nutrients are lost. This is one of the reasons that this blog encourages a vegan or vegeterian lifestyle and the eating of raw vegetables where possible for the body to get maximum benefit from the we eat and for better digestion due to the fibre and digestive enzymes in raw vegetables, nuts and seeds.
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