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Fried Carbohydrates Form Carcinogens

Posted by michael on from the you-can't-eat-just-one dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "Reuters (via Yahoo) is reporting that a Swedish team has found that cooking certain high-carbohydrate foods creates acrylamide (which is a suspected human carcinogen). The scientists felt this was so important that they have foregone publishing in favor of taking this public immediately. Potato chip stocks are taking nosedives in Scandanavia."

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  1. The sad thing is by david+duncan+scott · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...the story made me hungry. Guess I'm doomed :)

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  2. Soylent Chips by Servo5678 · · Score: 4, Funny
    high-carbohydrate foods creates acrylamide (which is a suspected human carcinogen)

    Did anyone else read that and have a Soylent Green flashback?

  3. Re:No wonder americans are so unhealthy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And bread? your going to advise the recall of bread?

    Well, of course. Every murderer has eaten bread. Such a high correlation MUST mean that bread causes people to become murderers, right? We must ban bread. For the children!

    </sarcasm>

    Maybe I've seen one two many studies that leaps from correlation to causation...