Wasn't there an acrylamide scare back in 2004-2006 or something?
fried foods cause cancer wow who would of thought
lmao this isn't new by any means a study in 2002 confirmed starchy food create acrylamide when heated. this doesn't happen when boiling though so i guess if u want french fries throw them in some boiling water.
btw most of your acrylamide intake comes from coffee so you caffeine addicts are in deep shit.
I'm pretty sure obesity and unhealthy eating habits will kill you before any amount of that chemical can do anything.
[QUOTE=Tetsmega;42901046]I'm pretty sure obesity and unhealthy eating habits will kill you before any amount of that chemical can do anything.[/QUOTE]
Thanks mr scientist. I guess we can all go home now.
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[QUOTE=yawmwen;42900715]
btw most of your acrylamide intake comes from coffee so you caffeine addicts are in deep shit.[/QUOTE]
Nope! Didn't read this.
Y'know what, fuck it. I'm done avoiding cancer. [I]Everything[/I] causes it anyway, so why bother? This is the day I learned to stop worrying and love the tumor.
[QUOTE=Tetsmega;42901046]I'm pretty sure obesity and unhealthy eating habits will kill you before any amount of that chemical can do anything.[/QUOTE]
it increases your risk for cancer, that's what a carcinogen does. it isn't a guarantee, and the levels of acrylamide are far too low to have neurotoxic effects(acrylamide is very neurotoxic =) ) but a population who eats more acrylamide will have higher cancer rates than a population that doesn't. idk how much, but it's definitely statistically relevant since the fda has been closely monitoring acrylamide levels in food for years and it's definitely a concern among scientists.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;42901169]
Nope! Didn't read this.[/QUOTE]
sorry man tell me how your morning cup of cancer tastes tomorrow.
[editline]18th November 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Riller;42901231]Y'know what, fuck it. I'm done avoiding cancer. [I]Everything[/I] causes it anyway, so why bother? This is the day I learned to stop worrying and love the tumor.[/QUOTE]
just don't drink as much coffee and don't eat so many french fries. it isn't like you gotta be in constant worry but yea there are other benefits to lower caffeine intake(your heart will love you, for one) and lower starch intake anyways.
this is just another reason to watch what you eat.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;42901244]
just don't drink as much coffee and don't eat so many french fries. it isn't like you gotta be in constant worry but yea there are other benefits to lower caffeine intake(your heart will love you, for one) and lower starch intake anyways.
this is just another reason to watch what you eat.[/QUOTE]
Oh, I won't have to change my eating habits at all in response to this, I'm far out of danger. It's just the omnipresence of cancer-causing shit that makes me go fuck it. It's like a tapdance through a minefield of WWI era landmines, 99% of which are long too coroded to ever be a danger to anyone, but they're there still.
[QUOTE=Riller;42901262]Oh, I won't have to change my eating habits at all in response to this, I'm far out of danger. It's just the omnipresence of cancer-causing shit that makes me go fuck it. It's like a tapdance through a minefield of WWI era landmines, 99% of which are long too coroded to ever be a danger to anyone, but they're there still.[/QUOTE]
you don't got to tapdance. just watch your step.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;42901266]you don't got to tapdance. just watch your step.[/QUOTE]
And you ain't got no minefield-passing style, [I]mister[/I].
[QUOTE=Riller;42901274]And you ain't got no minefield-passing style, [I]mister[/I].[/QUOTE]
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[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide#Human_cancer_risk_of_acrylamide_exposure_from_food[/url]
[quote=wikipedia]Acrylamide causes cancer in rats when administered orally in high-dose experiments, increasing tumors in the nervous system, oral cavity, peritoneum, thyroid gland, mammary gland, uterus, and clitoris.[24] [b]There is a margin of 900-fold between the dose that gave cancer to 10% of rats and human exposure to acrylamide in the diet.[/b][25]
To determine the human cancer risk from acrylamide, several studies have been conducted using food frequency data to estimate acrylamide intake and its effect on cancer risk. A Swedish study using 1,525 patients [b]failed to find a link between acrylamide in food and liver, kidney and bowel cancers.[/b][26] A larger Swedish study on 45,306 men [b]also found no link between dietary intake of acrylamide and risk for colorectal cancer.[/b][27] A large Italian study covering 1991–2000 in Italy and Switzerland analyzed the risk of cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx, esophagus, larynx, large bowel, breast, and ovaries from consumption of fried/baked potatoes, and [b]found no association.[/b][28] A 2005 study of 43,404 Swedish women in the Women's Lifestyle and Health Cohort found that the women's greatest sources of acrylamide were from coffee (54% of intake), fried potatoes (12% of intake), and crisp bread (9% of intake), but [b]found no association between breast cancer risk and higher intake of any specific foods.[/b][18] A 2009 Swedish follow-up study on 61,433 women [b]also found no association between long-term dietary acrylamide intake and breast cancer.[/b][29] Another 2009 study on 90,628 premenopausal women in the United States [b]also found no relationship between dietary acrylamide intake and breast cancer risk.[/b][30] A Dutch study on 62,573 women aged 55–69 years [highlight]did find a link between acrylamide intake and increased risks of postmenopausal endometrial and ovarian cancer after adjusting for smoking, but not with breast cancer.[/highlight][31]
Although only one of these studies found an association between dietary acrylamide and cancer, it has been pointed out that food frequency questionnaires do not give a very precise measure of actual acrylamide exposure.[32] A 2008 study using blood acrylamide levels after adjusting for smoking did find a 2.7-fold increase in risk for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer for every 10-fold increase of acrylamide.[33][/quote]
Calm down, unless you're a postmenopausal woman you all should stop worrying.
"it has been pointed out that food frequency questionnaires do not give a very precise measure of actual acrylamide exposure.[32] A 2008 study using blood acrylamide levels after adjusting for smoking did find a 2.7-fold increase in risk for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer for every 10-fold increase of acrylamide"
[QUOTE=yawmwen;42901289]"it has been pointed out that food frequency questionnaires do not give a very precise measure of actual acrylamide exposure.[32] A 2008 study using blood acrylamide levels after adjusting for smoking did find a 2.7-fold increase in risk for [b]estrogen[/b] receptor-positive [b]breast cancer[/b] for every 10-fold increase of acrylamide"[/QUOTE]
Well I'm not a woman, so i'm gonna chug coffee and munch french fries.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;42901294]Well I'm not a woman, so i'm gonna chug coffee and munch french fries.[/QUOTE]
"About 9 of 10 breast cancers in men are hormone receptor-positive (either estrogen receptor (ER)-positive and/or progesterone receptor (PR)-positive)."
[url]http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancerinmen/detailedguide/breast-cancer-in-men-treating-hormone-therapy[/url]
[QUOTE=yawmwen;42901307]"About 9 of 10 breast cancers in men are hormone receptor-positive (either estrogen receptor (ER)-positive and/or progesterone receptor (PR)-positive)."
[url]http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancerinmen/detailedguide/breast-cancer-in-men-treating-hormone-therapy[/url][/QUOTE]
Isn't male breast cancer exceedingly uncommon already?
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;42901319]Isn't male breast cancer exceedingly uncommon?[/QUOTE]
"Breast cancer is about 100 times less common among men than among women. For men, the lifetime risk of getting breast cancer is about 1 in 1,000."
[URL]http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancerinmen/detailedguide/breast-cancer-in-men-key-statistics[/URL]
chance of dying other ways:
pedestrian accident: 1 in 649
flu: 1 in 9,410
assault: 1 in 211
so it's not likely, but it's more likely you will get it than die of the flu
Well, I am still not convinced that it is dangerous enough to change my current diet.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;42901361]Well, I am still not convinced that it is dangerous enough to change my current diet.[/QUOTE]
well if you change your diet you get other benefits...like maybe eventually getting to change your username ;)
[QUOTE=Sergeant Stacker;42893311]Everything seems to cause cancer nowadays.[/QUOTE]
Yup. 'Tis why I don't really care when something is mentioned to do it anymore.
Time to start smoking, if I can't even eat fries anymore and not get cancer then there's nothing to lose.
I wrote an essay on this shit years ago in high school. This is hardly news, it's been known for quite a long time. I assume this is just news agencies trying to find anything worth writing about to scare people with cancer? Even as a lowly year 9 or something I was able to conclude the risks aren't massive by researching it for longer than 5 minutes.
Snip!
[QUOTE=Sungrazer;42904151]I thought we were manly meat eaters. All we have to do is cook the meat to a specific bacteria killing temperature, a process by which cancer causing chemicals are produced that otherwise wouldn't exist.
"Omnivores."[/QUOTE]
Cancer or Salmonella?
your move, gourmands :v:
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;42904155]Cancer or Salmonella?
your move, gourmands :v:[/QUOTE]
Yeah, helps if I read the articles before jumping to conclusions.
There are far, far, far more carcinogens in cigarettes than in any fucking fried foods. Articles like this piss me off to no end, because whenever somebody compares anything to cigarettes everyone goes "OH FUCK WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE THOSE CIGARETTE THINGS KILL PEOPLE." Ever notice how many things are compared to harmful chemicals cigarettes? Ever notice how many of them have the [/i]same[/i] chemical? (I will give you a hint, not many)
Tobacco products are jam-packed with harmful shit, there's a few thousand individual chemical compounds that are recognized poisons by themselves. Doesn't stop millions of people (including myself) from smoking, so your fried foods, with their miniscule amounts of carcinogens and deadly chemicals, are perfectly fine to eat. Just don't make a habit out of it, because you'll be fat, and being fat isn't cool. (unlike smoking, which is scientifically proven to be cool)
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