Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site amdcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!amdcad!linda From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: MOLD ON CHEESE (actually carcinogens) Message-ID: <2686@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 16:05:55 EDT Article-I.D.: amdcad.2686 Posted: Fri Aug 16 16:05:55 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 08:12:08 EDT References: <5400007@hpfcly.UUCP> <312@zaphod.UUCP> <1330@uwmacc.UUCP> Organization: AMDCAD, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 14 Summary: fried meat studies > >I gave up worrying about THINGS THAT MIGHT CAUSE CANCER when I heard, in > >a detailed news report, that fried hamburger might. > > I read in Omni magazine that a researcher right here at the U of Wisconsin > found that fried hamburger may actually help *prevent* cancer. I thought > I'd pass this tidbit along even though I take anything I read in Omni with > an extremely large grain of salt (or was that MSG...). > I think that the studies of carcinogens in fried meat may have been done by Professor Bruce Ames at UC Berkeley. I think it was the burning and browning which was harmful - rare meat was more safe. There are plenty of plenty of papers by Ames and at least one summary in Science, if anyone wants to do a literature search.