Healthy food
Sir, — Ross Horne is reported as stating, “cooking food destroys the enzymes that help digestion” (“The Press,” August 3). As a result, he points out, “hypertrophy of the pancreas may occur, indicating that it is over-working to produce the body’s own enzymes.” The very young and the elderly, particularly if ailing, are the most prone to ill-effects. Damage in the young may not become apparent until after 20 years. Pasteurising (i.e. cooking) milk denatures or destroys all of its digestive enzymes including lactase, lipase and phosphatase. Fluoridated water at 1 p.p.m. has been reported as causing inhibition of enzymes in the body. While it may not be significant in a healthy adult, unless combined with, nicotine or
alcohol, the young and the elderly should not be overlooked. We should rid ourselves of anti-enzyme practices at least so far as the two basics — milk and water — are concerned. — Yours, etc.,
PAUL MALING. August 4, 1985.
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