Latest "thing that is bad for you"

Post #36,506 by Silverlock 4/25/02 12:55:08 PM Reply	Latest "thing that is bad for you" [link\|http://www.msnbc.com/news/743063.asp\|Bread] Let me get this straight, the staple food of most of the world for thousands of years will kill you. My Grandfather was right, being alive is a fatal condition. Don't blame me. I voted with the majority.
Post #36,511 by imric 4/25/02 1:06:36 PM Reply	Just another in a long line... grin I forget, are eggs good for you or bad for you this year? And milk for adult males - does it or does it not lead to arthritic calcium deposits? Red meat? Is that still bad for you even if low fat? What next - Rice? Imric's Tips for Living Paranoia Is a Survival Trait Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised... Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
Post #36,529 by Steven A S 4/25/02 5:23:43 PM Reply	You know what kind of chemicals are used in rice growing? :-O Oh well, just hand me my extra greasy Wendy's Triple Cheeseburger, Fries, and Frosty; and let me die my own way! ~~~)-Steven---- "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..." General George S. Patton
Post #36,582 by jb4 4/26/02 9:42:24 AM Reply	Steve, You're a man after my own cholesterol-clogged heart! jb4 (Resistance is not futile...)
Post #36,526 by Ashton 4/25/02 5:06:49 PM Reply	Well.. there's 'bread' and then there's Bread Not much can be said for the mega-baked, white-flour, sanitized homogenized Wonder- varieties. (No matter what token 'enrichments' they claim to add-back). Obviously though - the Earl of Sandwich forever changed the way we transfer nutrients to the mouth (though I'm sure that the pita and countless other forms quite predated his 'discovery' -- but they weren't British, ya know?) Ashton
Post #36,545 by Meerkat 4/25/02 9:05:35 PM Reply	I think "The Young Ones" had it right... ...where Neil the hippy once said "Listen man sleep gives you cancer everyone knows that..." There was mention this morning on the telly of potato chips being bad for you. Well that's a given. But, this was potato crisps being carcinogenic due to compounds formed by the application of very high to carbohydrates. Or something. I don't yet know if this research was presented by a company that produces 'baked not fired' rice snacks :) On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #36,562 by CRConrad 4/26/02 2:47:14 AM Reply	That's the same report; baking too is "heat + carbohydrates" So the research report that the article Don linked to was based on said that potato chips, potato crisps, _and_ bread and cookies and apparently pretty much everything else we eat contains that carcinogen (I forget the name, but it sounded like a kind of plastic[]). Your morning TV show was just being less sensationalist than most, in focusing on the crisps in stead of the bread; OTOH, for once I kind of agree with the meeja's slanting of it -- as you said yourself, crisps being bad for you isn't news. And no, this wasn't from any company at all, but the University of Stockholm, IIRC. The food industry were quick to play it down, as "not peer-reviewed, so therefore more sensationalism than real research" -- but the feeling I got was that this was just because it hadn't been published and peer-reviewed yet; that it had just been leaked to the (Swedish) media a bit too early, who themselves put the sensationalist spin on it and made it spread world-wide. Which of course plays right into the hands of anyone (coughthefoodindustrycough) who wants to play it down: By the time it _is_ published and peer-reviewed, it'll be "old news" and won't get anything near as many sensationalist headlines as it did now, while it could still be dismissed as "not peer-reviewed". Dunno if that's just coincidence, or if it was the plan all along. []: No wonder -- plastics are carbohydrates, aren't they? Christian R. Conrad Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #36,583 by jb4 4/26/02 9:45:50 AM Reply	You mean "french fries", don't you? ;-\ufffd jb4 (Resistance is not futile...)
Post #36,761 by boxley 4/29/02 10:30:56 AM Reply	Crisps is tater chips pomme de terre frit is fries TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
Post #36,572 by static 4/26/02 7:52:39 AM Reply	But but but... Everything is a carcinogen... ... in sufficient quantities. :-) Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"

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