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[VanIslander]

the longer you cook meat, the more antioxidants it has

[Bramble]

[dogshed]

Some carcinogens are formed when you cook meat.
Somebody cooked some meat and ran it through some
machine to see what was in it. It had more of certain
chemicals than raw meat. It made the news.
Is this significant? Should you eat only raw meat?
Probably not.

Eating lots of meat and little vegetables like most
Americans do has been shown in many studies to
increase the risk of colon and other cancers.
What should you do? Eat your veggies.

They are hoping to be able to do genetic tests
in the future that will be able to determine your
personal cancer risks related to your personal
behavior.

For example a doctor could tell one patient to avoid
cooked meat and then tell another patient with
a different genetic makeup to eat more meat.

That's a few years away so until then we have
to go by these generalized studies which say
eat more veggies.

[VanIslander]

[Tokki1]

[Dev]

[Bramble]

Yeah, that's pretty bizarre. There are much better ways to get antioxidants - eat fruit and vegetables.

[waltjocketty]

burned foods can alter your DNA, and maybe that DNA alteration will result in cancer, but probably not. It's kinda like how one drag from a cigarette COULD cause the change in DNA which results in cancer, but usually it takes a few million drags before you get the correct mutation and your body fails to correct said mutation. So, if you eat burnt meat millions of times, yeah, you will probably end up getting cancer, but if you eat it one time, your chances of getting cancer are one in a couple million.

[Rteacher]

http://www.goveg.com/f-top10cows.asp

[Bramble]

http://thechinastudy.com/about.html