French fries
You probably didn’t know this, but when starchy foods are cooked at higher temperatures, a compound known as acrylamide is made. This compound can appear during frying, baking, roasting, and, of course, toasting.
Well, it seems that fried starchy foods are particularly high in acrylamide, and this automatically puts an emphasis on fried potato products, such as french fries or potato chips. There was a 2018 review that proved acrylamide is carcinogenic.
The study was conducted on rats, so the International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, concluded that if it’s carcinogenic in rats, then it’s probably carcinogenic in humans, too. Also, there’s a more recent study that showed how acrylamide badly damages DNA and induces apoptosis, known as cell death.
If you snack on a lot of fried food, it might increase your risk for type 2 diabetes, but also for obesity. Such conditions could be at fault for provoking oxidative stress (the worst kind) and inflammation, which might further lead to cancer.
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It makes me VERY Angry thatitdered fish was mentioned!! People can eat completely healthily without contributing to the death and suffering of animals.
Lighten up Colleen.
If God didn’t want us to eat animals why did he make them out of meat? OR, the non-religious take on this: Why are our teeth made to rip meat apart. The design of our human teeth show that we are omnivores. That means we were designed or evolved to eat meat as well as vegetables. Animals don’t have to suffer. The solution is to kill them as quickly and humanely as possible. The fact is that most food providing meat animals today would never have been born if we humans didn’t eat meat. That is what they are raised for.
Megan. At age 79 and having eaten all the proscribed foods except yogurt in great quantities and remaining incredibly healthy you just sucked the air out of the room.
Wow! This is a problem! I can’t eat any more of my favorites! That is a mental breakdown to stop these foods!
I feel that it’s all about moderation. Eating the occasional sweetened yogurt or side of fries isn’t means to panic to ban them 100 percent.