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Grilled meat and cancer: connected?
Posted Jul 18th 2007 4:27PM by Brian White
Filed under: Diets, Non-toxic alternatives
I've looked at acrylamides (search this term using
Google Scholar) and how the byproducts of grilling meats (and anything else, for that matter) can produce this product that is best not consumed.
Reading deeper recently, it looks like the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has found that heterocyclic amines (HCAs), which are produced when
cooking specifically meat and fish, could be classified as as "human carcinogens."
Great -- so grilling produces carcinogens. But that is not all. It seems that these HCAs are even formed using other means of direct or indirect temperature cooking, like stewing and steaming.It's hard to eat raw food all the time, but from reading this, perhaps it's not a bad idea on a regular basis.
Tags: grilled beef, grilled chicken, grilled meat, GrilledBeef, GrilledChicken, GrilledMeat, grilling
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1. It sure is a wonder our ancestors ever made it this far.
Posted at 2:25PM on Jul 19th 2007 by jan