Comments on: Carcinogens – a BBQ sauce?

By: saumya

saumya — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:57:45 +0000

beer does not promote the growth of carcinogens right?

By: dr. ira gruber

dr. ira gruber — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:28:40 +0000

barbecue is an excelent way of getting cancer exposure like the sun like suntanning damage like drinking alcohol causes cirrohis. americans cannot control themselves they are all in a funk. or as bill maher might say they never learn the most most brilliant populacein the world and they still cannot connect the dots. did george wsashington barbecue never

By: alfreem

alfreem — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:58:30 +0000

Many people use the bbq especially on warm evenings or weekends, it has become extreemly popular and I don't think I know anyone that does not have one. I am a great lover of the old bbq I recently bought a new Buschbeck bbq, and use it as often as I can Not every day but at least once a week), I really enjoy having a meal in the garden and I also like my meat welldone I am I in danger?.

By: Maximus

Maximus — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:19:29 +0000

I would like to see a continuation of the topic

By: eccentricscientist

eccentricscientist — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:05:40 +0000

Here is an article on the benefits of beer
http://eccentricscientist.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/lets-hear-it-for-beer/

By: eccentricscientist

eccentricscientist — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:25:04 +0000

Hmm… I will do some researching into the protective effects of beer and get back to you. Watch this space!

By: Duncan Bayne

Duncan Bayne — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:22:06 +0000

Well, that was quick. There’s a layman’s summary (useful, as I are won), & further reading, here:

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050305/food.asp

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After a few more days of giving the mice HCA-supplemented diets, Sakae Arimoto-Kobayashi and his colleagues removed key organs and scanned their cells for HCA-induced DNA changes known as adducts. These genetic changes, in which bits of a chemical inappropriately bind to DNA, often serve as a first step in the development of cancer.

As expected, both HCAs triggered adducts. Trp-P-2’s adducts appeared in the liver while those caused by MeIQx developed not only there, but also in the lungs and kidneys. However, beer diminished by some 40 to 75 percent the number of HCA adducts that formed, depending on the type of tissue and quantity of beer ingredients ingested, the researchers report in the Feb. 9 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Good news for beer drinkers: Both light-colored lager and a darker stout proved protective.

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By: Duncan Bayne

Duncan Bayne — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:18:42 +0000

I have heard – and I am perfectly prepared to accept this as an urban myth – that beer contains chemicals that mitigate the carcinogenic effects of charred meat.

I think I’ll go and spend some time on Google or Snopes & see if I can verify the story …