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Avoid acrylamide: FDA warns against chemical found in many fried foods
FOX News ^ | November 15, 2013 | FOX News

Posted on 11/16/2013 12:55:16 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

One week after proposing the removal of trans fats from food, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is targeting another fattening – and potentially harmful – ingredient: acrylamide.

Acrylamide is a chemical that forms in many plant-based foods during high-temperature cooking, such as frying or baking. It is often found in French fries, cereals, crackers and many other food products.

According to a recent report on the FDA website, stuides have found that high levels of acrylamide can increase the risk of cancer in animals – and many experts believe the risk likely translates to humans as well.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acrylamide; bakedfoods; cancer; fda; food; friedfoods; health; nannystate
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Did they fist find this in China?
Everything there kills you or germinates a flu that the press yearly tells us will cause a catastrophic pandemic that could/will kill off thousands by Christmas
61 posted on 11/16/2013 5:49:44 PM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? The Dem's do & voted!)
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To: Iron Munro

Was that picture meant to be an emetic? Cause I lost my lunch when I saw it...
Is that really the first moose of the country?
No wonder he prefers Reggie....


62 posted on 11/16/2013 5:53:31 PM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? The Dem's do & voted!)
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To: JSteff
Is that really the first moose of the country?

That reminds me.

Moose season is open in Wasilla, Alaska until November 30.


63 posted on 11/16/2013 7:21:31 PM PST by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you don't need to be mystified about a motive.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping!


64 posted on 11/16/2013 8:26:43 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Just EAT YOUR PEAS!


65 posted on 11/16/2013 11:48:55 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Can someone PLEASE bring some PERSPECTIVE to these constant alarms?

Absolutely NOT, Comrade. How else can the scientifically illiterate and innumerate masses be steered away from what the all-knowing State has determined is bad for them, including light bulbs without mercury, air with a trace of it, carbon dioxide, butter, apples, and an unmedicated existence?

/s, of course.

66 posted on 11/16/2013 11:54:26 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Iron Munro

My gosh, imagine the point load on each of those spike heels. It would spear a hole through someone’s foot if wookie took a wrong step.


67 posted on 11/17/2013 5:56:19 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: ConservativeInPA

This just in ... laboratory mice cause cancer!


Closer to the truth than you think. The mice used in research is of a very special breeding for research purposes, meaning they have propensity for cancer............


68 posted on 11/17/2013 6:11:33 PM PST by PeterPrinciple
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

Given what I’ve read about AGE’s, they tend to accumulate in the body, rather than being flushed out, so it’s a sort of double whammy: they’re bad for you, and they accumulate over your lifetime.


69 posted on 11/17/2013 6:41:05 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Based upon what I've read AGEs goes beyond bad.. it's deadly.

Proteins such as structural collagen and lens crystallins (lens of the eye) particularly are implicated as pathogenic targets of AGEs processes.

AGEs is THE major cause of aging-related problems and diseases. Collagen and elastin are important for healthy internal organs and vessels as well as skin. Glycation (glycated proteins) causes collagen fibers to bind to each other causing the skin -- as some have described it -- to look similar to tanning a leather hide.

Elastin (a protein similar to collagen that is the principal structural component of elastic fibers) gives the skin the ability to resist stretching (sagging). Elastin can cluster together also, become stiff and unable to prevent sagging skin.

It has just recently (20 years ago?) been recognized as a problem though it's been known for decades as creating tasty foods. I believe food companies have stopped adding it to their products and use another process.

One source contained this: a "large body of evidence suggests that [problems caused by] AGEs are important pathogenetic mediators of almost all diabetes complications" and coronary artery disease, poor circulation and vision problems.

70 posted on 11/17/2013 8:11:05 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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