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Raw Paleo Diet Forums => Science => Topic started by: TylerDurden on March 26, 2015, 08:46:37 pm
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3012204/Burnt-food-smoke-risk-unborn-babies-Fumes-disrupt-development-brain-linked-intelligence-behaviour.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3012204/Burnt-food-smoke-risk-unborn-babies-Fumes-disrupt-development-brain-linked-intelligence-behaviour.html)
The PAHs(aka "polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons") mentioned in the study are found in coal- and tar-pits, but also in cigarette-smoke, cooked foods(the more you cook the higher the levels of PAHs become) and air-pollution.
Anyway, as the study indirectly shows, consumption of cooked foods causes some brain-damage. My only catch is that I cannot migrate to a region which is relatively air-pollution-free.
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Yep, you are kind of stuck here on planet earth....
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Yep, you are kind of stuck here on planet earth....
Well there's obviously places where air pollution is a lot less important than in large cities, or some pesticide-ridden countrysides.
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One caveat:- the study involved poor ethnic minority children from inner cities. Since such types are far more likely to eat very low grade, highly processed junk food, judging from past studies, they would inevitably have incurred a much higher load of PAHs than people in cities on more standard cooked diets.
Interesting that even smoke from burnt cooking can affect one. So even regularly attending barbeques and not eating the result is harmful to some extent.