Came across this article this morning...

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060403/hl_nm/cancer_bbq_dc

Barbecue meats linked with prostate cancer Mon Apr 3, 12:53 AM ET


A compound formed when meat is charred at high temperatures -- as in
barbecue -- encourages the growth of prostate cancer in rats,
researchers reported on Sunday.

Their study, presented at a meeting of the American Association for
Cancer Research, may help explain the link between eating meat and a
higher risk of prostate cancer.

It also fits in with other studies suggesting that cooking meat until
it chars might cause cancer.

The compound, called PhIP, is formed when meat is cooked at very high
temperatures, Dr. Angelo De Marzo and colleagues at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore reported.

It appears to both initiate and promote the growth of prostate cancer
in rats, they said.

"We stumbled across a new potential interaction between ingestion of
cooked meat in the diet and cancer in the rat," De Marzo said in a
statement.

"For humans, the biggest problem is that it's extremely difficult to
tell how much PhIP you've ingested, since different amounts are formed
depending on cooking conditions."

For the study, Yatsutomo Nakai and other members of De Marzo's team
mixed PhIP into food given to rats for up to eight weeks, then studied
the animals' prostates, intestines and spleens. They found genetic
mutations in all the organs after four weeks.


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So, shall we flood Reuters with emails correcting them on the meaning
of Barbecue......?

;-)


-Chef Juke
"EVERYbody Eats When They Come To MY House!"