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The study refutes previous claims that the chemical acrylamide, which is found in many fried foods, causes increased risk of three types of cancer.
What's spurring the trend? One theory is that we've grown accustomed to giant servings offered up in restaurants. Another possibility, and one more troubling to dieticians, is that we're just not satisfied by what we're eating. "The American diet has cut back dramatically on things like...
Nabil Saqqar used to hate Saddam Hussein. The 19-year-old Jordanian undergrad has friends who live in Baghdad, and has heard plenty of horror stories about the Iraqi dictator's repressive regime. He recounts some of them for my benefit as we wait in a queue at a Kentucky...
DIABETES Close to 20 million Americans have diabetes, and nearly that many have a condition doctors have started to call prediabetes. Experts project that by the end of the decade, 10% of the U.S. will be diabetic. A big part of the problem is that cases of Type 2 diabetes...
FRENCH FRIES Cooking potatoes and other starchy foods at high temperatures can trigger the formation of acrylamide, a compound that has been shown to cause cancer in lab rats. Scientists also know there are toxic consequences to breathing the acrylamide in cigarette smoke. So are chips and fries even worse...