Toolie
05-17-2002, 03:55 PM
As most of you might now know, high-carbohydrate foods like cooked breads, potato chips, and potatoes have a high amount of a chemical called Acrylamide, which is cancerous (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=585&e=2&cid=585&u=/nm/20020517/sc_nm/food_health_cancer_dc_2).
We already know this chemical is cancerous and is highly regulated... for example, we can have one milligram per liter of water ( I believe ). However, a serving of frenched fries has sometiems over 1000 times that limit.
The solution, of course, would be to eat a natural diet; as I have advocated for a long time. Not only would this be the perfect diet, but it would avoid things such as this. The more you manipulate a food or groups of foods, the more you make it unhealthy and make it lose its nutrients.
For example, cooking a steak and eating it is fairly healthy. You get alot of nutrients and its safe and healthy. However, harvesting grain, processing it, mixing it with other processed ingredients, mixing with fungus, baking, and eating to make bread is a series of complicated procedures that makes the primary ingredients lose their nutritional value - and now apparantly can cause cancer.
The more naturally you live, the healthier you live. Modern humans have existed for millions of years naturally, but only until the past few thousand years have we started to do advanced things... and these advanced things are really starting to hurt us.. obesity, cancer, etc...
Leading a more natural life helps out alot... even with your hair! :)
We already know this chemical is cancerous and is highly regulated... for example, we can have one milligram per liter of water ( I believe ). However, a serving of frenched fries has sometiems over 1000 times that limit.
The solution, of course, would be to eat a natural diet; as I have advocated for a long time. Not only would this be the perfect diet, but it would avoid things such as this. The more you manipulate a food or groups of foods, the more you make it unhealthy and make it lose its nutrients.
For example, cooking a steak and eating it is fairly healthy. You get alot of nutrients and its safe and healthy. However, harvesting grain, processing it, mixing it with other processed ingredients, mixing with fungus, baking, and eating to make bread is a series of complicated procedures that makes the primary ingredients lose their nutritional value - and now apparantly can cause cancer.
The more naturally you live, the healthier you live. Modern humans have existed for millions of years naturally, but only until the past few thousand years have we started to do advanced things... and these advanced things are really starting to hurt us.. obesity, cancer, etc...
Leading a more natural life helps out alot... even with your hair! :)