11.  But for certain groups, eating raw food like meat, fish or eggs is much riskier than it is for a healthy adult.

12.  But throughout Japan, people are shunning raw foods, including sushi.

13.  Cooking tomatoes also enhances their available lycopene by breaking down fibrous cell walls that inhibit its release from the raw food.

14.  Currently, federal law bans any cancer-causing residues in processed foods if their concentrations are higher than in raw foods.

15.  Eating only raw foods, he says, increased his energy and freed him from cooking.

16.  Food-borne bacteria like salmonella, E. coli and Listeria, common in raw food, are killed by cooking.

17.  Finding a language to describe raw food creations is difficult.

18.  Food-borne bacteria like salmonella, E. coli and listeria are common in raw food, but cooking kills them.

19.  For chefs who work with raw foods, there is nowhere to hide.

20.  Heat breaks down cell walls and frees the lycopene from a matrix of proteins and fiber that keep it locked in the raw food.