Cancer Risk Found in French Fries, Bread (Reuters) - Basic foods eaten by millions around the world such as bread, biscuits, potato chips and french fries contain alarmingly high quantities of acrylamide, a substance believed to cause cancer, Swedish scientists said on Wednesday. The research carried out at Stockholm University in cooperation with experts at Sweden's National Food Administration, a government food safety agency, showed that heating of carbohydrate-rich foods, such as potatoes, rice or cereals formed acrylamide, a much studied substance classified as a probable human carcinogen.
Dammit Huntsy...I gave up meat and started subsisting on Pringles, and now look what I find out...
No fries, no crisps, no biscuits, just what the hell are we supposed to eat?
Next thing you know, they'll tell us beers and New Order cause cancer as well!
