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WestCoasta:
A compound formed when meat is charred at high temperatures -- as in barbecue -- encourages the growth of prostate cancer in rats, researchers reported on Sunday.

Their study, presented at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, may help explain the link between eating meat and a higher risk of prostate cancer.

It also fits in with other studies suggesting that cooking meat until it chars might cause cancer.

The compound, called PhIP, is formed when meat is cooked at very high temperatures, Dr. Angelo De Marzo and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore reported.

It appears to both initiate and promote the growth of prostate cancer in rats, they said.

"We stumbled across a new potential interaction between ingestion of cooked meat in the diet and cancer in the rat," De Marzo said in a statement.

"For humans, the biggest problem is that it's extremely difficult to tell how much PhIP you've ingested, since different amounts are formed depending on cooking conditions."

For the study, Yatsutomo Nakai and other members of De Marzo's team mixed PhIP into food given to rats for up to eight weeks, then studied the animals' prostates, intestines and spleens. They found genetic mutations in all the organs after four weeks.


I thought of that shit before, about all the shit that must go up on ur meat from the charcoal smoke  :P

7even:
doesn't suprise me, but eating healthy is stupid so I'll continue to not give a shit

coola:
yeah, my parents always told me charcoaled meat can cause cancer...

what i dont understand is why people charcoal their meat ? goto have it medium-rare..

Teddy Roosevelt:

--- Quote from: Chief on April 03, 2006, 03:54:19 PM ---yeah, my parents always told me charcoaled meat can cause cancer...

what i dont understand is why people charcoal their meat ? goto have it medium-rare..

--- End quote ---
Yeah, I usually have my meat with a thin layer of pink. But once in a while I like that shit burnt to a crisp. 8)

Sikotic™:
Fuck it, I BBQ everything. Can't stop, won't stop eh-eh-eh-eh.

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