Can Grilling Meat Cause Cancer?

re: Can Grilling Meat Cause Cancer?

Alice_M — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:01:52 GMT

Life Extension Forums had a medical citation that tea, green and black, had anti-mutagenic activity against n-hydroxylated amines causing damage to the gut.

re: Can Grilling Meat Cause Cancer?

JGC — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:35:56 GMT

If this were true then the human population in Uruguay, where I was born and raised, would have become extinct many decades ago because there grilling meat is a national passtime that is done all year round thanks to the mild weather. One caveat though, the meat is cooked with low heat and firewood and cows roam free eating grass until they're butchered with no havoc to the environment.

re: Can Grilling Meat Cause Cancer?

iamdeb21 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:02:34 GMT

All I have to say is " Live your life and enjoy". I have come to the conclusion that everything we do, eat, drink, put on our bodies, etc...will give us cancer. In all honesty, worrying about things that may potentially hurt us in some way, will get us sick before the crap we put in our bodies will.

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BeeSee — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:45:40 GMT

I just find this hard to buy because the most primitive, and therefore the oldest way of cooking meat is to throw it on an open fire.

Now I will entertain you with a recipe for grassland fowl such as ducks found in the pothole regions or prairie chickens.

Take the animal and rip it into handful-sized chunks. Build a stack of grass and weed stems about 3 feet tall. Lay chunks on top. Ignite grass. Pile more grass on as it burns down. More weed stems makes the meat more well done. When the fire has burned down, fish the chunks out of the ashes, brush off, and enjoy. Should be rare & juicy on the inside, black, but not really burnt on the outside.

The Apache had a similar way of preparing donkey or mule. They used a wood fire and threw the donkey on whole. Mmmm! That had to be delicious!

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webwitch6 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:10:36 GMT

I am a vegetarian, have been for 20 plus years. Never felt good when I ate meat, hated the taste of fowl, fish and pork, and cow gave me the runs. I stopped eating meat all those years ago and have felt fantastic ever since. In 20 plus years I have had the flu 3 times, (missed 5 days of work in all those years due to any sickness) and do not have health insurance. I am a vegetarian, not a vegan. ( I have leather shoes and purses,) I eat eggs, some milk products and up until 3 years ago a large amount of soy products. I noticed the soy started to taste a bit different and I would often get headaches and severe mood swings if I ate too much of it. I like the smell of bbq but never have a desire to eat any meat. I listen to my body. I dont eat meat and I am happy and even more importantly I am healthier than anyone --ANYONE--ever has been in my entire family line at the same age I am now.

I will not start eating raw meat or semi cooked meat for any reason, and I just cant believe that this lifetstyle choice is bad for me.

re: Can Grilling Meat Cause Cancer?

cmichaelo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:31:00 GMT

I'd just like to second what many have already pointed out. People have been grilling AND CHARING meats for millenia. Cancer is a recent disease. Obviously, back then people used high quality unprocessed grass fed meats...and I believe that as long as we do the same we'll be just fine. I say this from the perspective that we eat healthy in general and according to our nutritional types. Having said this I also do believe that charing meats during grilling may increase the risk of cancer. But such is life. There's risks around most corners. Should we avoid all risks? No, because then we may as well stop living. At some point we are probably well served, in the long run, by learning to trade off risk and living. If we become obsessed with living healthy, then IMO we miss out on life all together. Obsession is never healthy. Balance, balance, balance. For me personally, dropping processed meats is a no brainer, whether grilled or not, as they are simply too dangerous in too many ways. But stopping to grill grass fed strip steaks...NO WAY Jose!!! I'll take mine medium rare, thank you, and I'll have a glass of water with that please.

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randy272 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:28:42 GMT

Doea anyone know what all this means with regard to slow-ccoking, indirect smokers, where the temperature is supposed to be between 200-250 degrees?

Randy

re: Can Grilling Meat Cause Cancer?

msg9 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:11:06 GMT

I use the Holland Grill www.hollandgrill.com which has a pan directly underneath the grill between the flame that eliminates flare-ups completely. It's the best one can do to have healthy barbeques this Summer.

re: Can Grilling Meat Cause Cancer?

freeseb — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:10:45 GMT

raw is another myth just like like low fat or vegetarianism. its all a new idea, something catchy to draw more people.....

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freeseb — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:06:49 GMT

there has never been raw hunter gather tribe, in fact they cooked most of there foods..

and the china is study is a joke, dont even bother reading that stuff..... traditional asians get most of there calories from pork fat and fish, followed by rice and vegetables.

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TonyVetrano — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:44:15 GMT

Hello:

The way things are going, as food and fuel become more inaccessible to the poor first of course and just a little bit later for the hoity toities, you WILL eat whatever you get, charred or not. Of course you may not get that little garnish of pickled radish or spiced apple ring that appeals so appealingly to the eye of the gourmand! MMMMMMagnifique.

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djseig — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:03:40 GMT

Save your own life and the life of an animal by going vegan!

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Doug900 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:27:17 GMT

I agree! He has a very coercive talent of flooding potential customers to his sales page, by way of fear. The hell with the fire and smoke on the grill! You can't get out of this world alive, so I will enjoy a juicy porterhouse or ribeye, occassionally. And, why would anybody pay his crazy prices for krill oil, when you can buy it much cheaper elswhere. It's all the same. Just because it's got his name on it? I tried to tell him about mangosteen one time, and he probably blew a gasket, when he found out that the company uses network marketing (very taboo in his world), even though he's doing the same thing!

re: Can Grilling Meat Cause Cancer?

remobec_203 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:01:07 GMT

I recently read the book The Ultimate Tea Diet. He said that studies had shown that marinading your meat in tea drastically reduces or eliminates carcinogenics.

Had to return the book to the library or I'd tell you the exact study.

re: Can Grilling Meat Cause Cancer?

ET — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:57:30 GMT

"Everything can kill you, but here's something to buy that will help. "

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Dying is a part of living. The execise should be to live disease free until you die.