Read the best books on health, nutrition and fitness for free

We just aspire to live a safe, balanced lifestyle. Physical well-being will assist you in preserving your mental well-being. Your body will be healthy and help you deal with depression and combat sickness if you eat the right foods and stay in shape. Eating well and exercising regularly can lead to a healthier lifestyle and a happier, healthy you. The RollingSlate website will help you find the top books on health, fitness and nutrition.

What is RollingSlate?

RollingSlate is a free service that selects the latest and best non-fiction books from renowned national and international authors and provides a detailed chapter-wise summary of the book, in the form of quickly readable or listenable Slates, in English as well as regional Indian languages. This will let you read books online free. The summarized Slates especially curated for the readers, contain the core wisdom and knowledge as shared by the author of the book to help you learn something new despite your busy schedule, be it through reading slates or listening to them in your preferred language.

Read about how a nutritious diet helps you on your journey to a healthy life

RollingSlate provides slates on the famous book - "Cooked" through which you can learn how cooking transformed what it means to be a human. Raw food diets are seen by some as a return to nature and a healthy way of living. However, such reasoning is faulty. We'd waste a lot of time eating food if we didn't cook it.

Humans will need a much bigger stomach and more strong jaws to survive entirely on raw food. These features were present in our apelike ancestors, but they came at a cost. Prior to the advent of cooking, primatologists spent more than half of their day chewing their food, according to primatologist Richard Wrangham. Today, we will see this with chimps who love meat but do not prepare it. When a chimp eats raw meat, it must chew for a long time, leaving it with no time to hunt – and definitely not enough time to maintain a carnivorous diet. For example, when you boil an egg, 90% of the cooked egg is digestible. A raw egg, on the other hand, is just 65% digestible by the human gastrointestinal tract. The same law refers to a number of other foods: the more prepared the meal is, the better it is for your stomach to consume the nutrients. Cooking has another advantage: it makes food safer to consume. When raw, certain seeds, such as the root cassava, a staple of South American cuisine, are poisonous. It is safe to eat, healthy, and easy to digest until baked. Cooking also tends to keep meals healthy. As a result, once grilled, raw meat that would otherwise spoil easily remains edible for longer.

What makes us human?

Is it real that we are able to talk and sing? These talents can also be possessed by other creatures. Is it that we are empathic – perhaps not, because other species display empathy as well. The only thing that separates us from other species is a peculiar mixture of fire and pot: humans cook. This apparently meaningless act has had a huge effect on our culture. Humans have thrived as a species as a result of learning to cook, doing things we would never have been able to do if we had kept to a simple foraging diet. These slates lead you into humanity's kitchen, looking at the pots and pans, ovens, and grills that have all contributed to the making of history. You'll hear why there's a correlation between cooking less and eating badly, why eating a cooked egg is better than eating a raw egg, and how yeast changed society's relationship with grains in these slates.

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