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TIL Eating overcooked/burnt food doesn’t have an established/quantitative link to increased cancer risk, contrary to what many of us have heard, since childhood. On the contrary, processed foods like bacon or salami increase the risk, regardless of how they’re cooked
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I wouldn’t have guessed bacon is a highly processed food. Isn’t it a slab cut off a pig?
I tend to think of processed foods as like Doritos, something that only can be made in a factory, not a farm.
I don’t understand how any of this works.
I’ve never heard this in my life, who’d believe that about overcooked food?
When I googled it I got this:
According to the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), charring meat, poultry and fish can lead to the formation of heterocyclic amines (HCAs), carcinogens that may cause cancer
You ever fry salami it gets crispy like bacon.
I am not sure if you are purposefully misrepresenting this or not, but there is a large growing body of research that indicates that overcooking / burning food (most specifically meat, and likely particularly red meat – which are ‘foods’) can absolutely, “lead to the formation of heterocyclic amines (HCAs), carcinogens that may cause cancer” (FROM YOUR OWN ARTICLE).
I also question your overall sources and would be interested in looking deeper at their biases as they are not the originators of the research, but rather 3rd party interpreters of it.
Here are some (I would argue more legit resources that put it into a better perspective, particularly around charred meat and HCAs. BTW – When you say “FOOD” you’re purposefully not including the research specifically around meat, particularly red meat.
[https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/cooked-meats-fact-sheet](https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/cooked-meats-fact-sheet)
[https://www.cancercenter.com/community/blog/2021/07/red-meat-cancer-risk](https://www.cancercenter.com/community/blog/2021/07/red-meat-cancer-risk)
[https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2009/04/study-shows-charred-meat-increases-cancer-risk/index.htm](https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2009/04/study-shows-charred-meat-increases-cancer-risk/index.htm) (yeah, its CR – But they directly cite the 2009 American Association for Cancer Research conference where much of this original research was presented)
[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26305323/](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26305323/)
So, again, I would just say putting out a headline of “Eating overcooked/burnt food doesn’t have an established/quantitative link to increased cancer risk, contrary to what many of us have heard, since childhood.” Is really disingenuous at best, at worst – you sound like you are doing PR for the BBQ Sellers Association of America or some shit.
Carbon is good for you. Absorbs “Toxins”.
Further reading:
[Is Charring Your Meat Dangerous?](https://www.palomarhealth.org/media-center/news-story?newstitle=is+charring+your+meat+dangerous%3F&newsdate=07-09-2021)
[Can eating burnt foods cause cancer?](https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/cancer-myths/can-eating-burnt-foods-cause-cancer#:~:text=No.,increase%20the%20risk%20of%20cancer.)
Not to be a stickler but ‘on the contrary’ doesn’t work here. The ‘contrary’ would be something along the lines of burnt foods preventing cancer
I never heard this in my life before today. Who thinks eating burnt food gives them cancer? Come on now.
Turns out, nobody really don’t has a fucking clue about how most of the specifics of most of our dietary functions work and every person is different in how their body reacts to different things
So burn the shit outta that bacon! We’re all gonna die anyway!!!