Your "respected" friend was half right
because you do get MORE nutrients when you
steam and cook them, but your friend was
wrong in saying that eating them raw gives
no nutritional value.
You see, in many foreign countries, people
live (healthily) off eating those veggies
raw. If you talked to any foreign (or
domestic) Olympian, they'd agree. You'd
be surprised how many essential nutrients
there are inside of raw carrots and
spinach.
As to the thing about the enzymes; I've
studied this stuff for quite a while, and
I've never heard of anything like that out
of raw vegetables.
I've also been a bodybuilder since my
early teen years, and there's nothing that
I trust more than good, watered-down
vegetables to help restore my muscle
tissues back to good health.
Raw or steamed, you'll get your fix.
Patrick
