Cooking is a destructive force. Many foods also turn toxic when exposed to heat. Fats, for example, when heated become free radicals in the body. By contrast, the more alive your food is, the more aliveness it creates in your body. Life begets life.
Animals consume only one food at a time.
The human body also is designed to digest one food at a time. When we complicate the foods we eat, we also complicate the digestive process. The average Mexican dinner includes guacamole and chips, a Margarita, beef enchiladas with cheese, refried beans and rice. In other words, fat, starch, salt and grease, alcohol and sugar, protein, dairy, more starch and grease. With these substances, we instead lose our taste for clean, natural foods.