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You generally get more calories from cooked foods too. I suspect the raw food thing has more too do with being cheep/lazy/hard-core.

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'Laziness' was a big part of my switch to stoveless.

At the end of the day I never wanted to waste time boiling water/cooking food I just wanted to eat and sleep. I found myself eating cold even with a stove so I just dropped the stove.

I don't know anyone that has done it just to be hard-core.

Dropping the stove certainly does simplify things, that's the main benefit. I've tried it but I just couldn't eat cold/raw all the time, especially in cooler weather. I use one of these brass alcohol stoves, it's light and dead simple: http://brasslite.com/

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