Hot Dogs?
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Hey, Whiplash says he enjoys a hotpocket every now and then... LMBO
If you want to preserve yourself for posterity, eat a hot dog, the crap in hotdogs is very bad for your fish, and if it doesn't kill them outright, give it time.
If you want to preserve yourself for posterity, eat a hot dog, the crap in hotdogs is very bad for your fish, and if it doesn't kill them outright, give it time.
I LOVE HOTDOGS :]
i dout my rbp would tho. . . . . . come to think of it why would u even think about feeding a hot dog to a fish
i dout my rbp would tho. . . . . . come to think of it why would u even think about feeding a hot dog to a fish
Hot Dogs and Nitrites
- Childhood Cancer Risk
A. Nitrite additives in hotdogs form carcinogens.
Petition to ban nitrites Three different studies have come out in the past year, finding that the consumption of hot dogs can be a risk factor for childhood cancer.
Peters et al. studied the relationship between the intake of certain foods and the risk of leukemia in children from birth to age 10 in Los Angeles County between 1980 and 1987. The study found that children eating more than 12 hot dogs per month have nine times the normal risk of developing childhood leukemia. A strong risk for childhood leukemia also existed for those children whose fathers' intake of hot dogs was 12 or more per month.
Researchers Sarusua and Savitz studied childhood cancer cases in Denver and found that children born to mothers who consumed hot dogs one or more times per week during pregnancy has approximately double the risk of developing brain tumors. Children who ate hot dogs one or more times per week were also at higher risk of brain cancer.
Bunin et al, also found that maternal consumption of hot dogs during pregnancy was associated with an excess risk of childhood brain tumors.
Q. How could hot dogs cause cancer?
A. Hot dogs contain nitrites which are used as preservatives, primarily to combat botulism. During the cooking process, nitrites combine with amines naturally present in meat to form carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds. It is also suspected that nitrites can combine with amines in the human stomach to form N-nitroso compounds. These compounds are known carcinogens and have been associated with cancer of the oral cavity, urinary bladder, esophagus, stomach and brain.
Q. Some vegetables contain nitrites, do they cause cancer too?
A. It is true that nitrites are commonly found in many green vegetables, especially spinach, celery and green lettuce. However, the consumption of vegetables appears to be effective in reducing the risk of cancer. How is this possible? The explanation lies in the formation of N-nitroso compounds from nitrites and amines. Nitrite containing vegetables also have Vitamin C and D, which serve to inhibit the formation of N-nitroso compounds. Consequently, vegetables are quite safe and healthy, and serve to reduce your cancer risk.
Q. Do other food products contain nitrites?
A. Yes, all cured meats contain nitrites. These include bacon and fish.
Q. Are all hot dogs a risk for childhood cancer?
A. No. Not all hot dogs on the market contain nitrites. Because of modern refrigeration methods, nitrites are now used more for the red color they produce (which is associated with freshness) than for preservation. Nitrite-free hot dogs, while they taste the same as nitrite hot dogs, have a brownish color that has limited their popularity among consumers. When cooked, nitrite-free hot dogs are perfectly safe and healthy.
HERE ARE FOUR THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO:
- Do not buy hot dogs containing nitrite. It is especially important that children and potential parents do not consume 12 or more of these hot dogs per month.
- Request that your supermarket have nitrite-free hot dogs available.
- Contact your local school board and find out whether children are being served nitrite hot dogs in the cafeteria, Request that they use only nitrite-free hot dogs.
- Write the FDA and express your concern that nitrite-hot dogs are not labeled for their cancer risk to children. You can mention CPC's petition on hot dogs, docket #: 95P 0112/CP1.
Cancer Prevention Coalition
c/o School of Public Health, M/C 922
University of Illinois at Chicago
2121 West Taylor Street
Chicago, IL 60612
Tel: (312) 996-2297, Fax: (312) 413-9898
Email: epstein@uic.edu
References:
1, Peters J, et al " Processed meats and risk of childhood leukemia (California, USA)" Cancer Causes & Control 5: 195-202, 1994.
2 Sarasua S, Savitz D. " Cured and broiled meat consumption in relation to childhood cancer: Denver, Colorado (United States)," Cancer Causes & Control 5:141-8, 1994.
VITAMINS COUNTERACT NEGATIVE EFFECTS:
CANCER RISKS LURK IN HOT DOGS AND BURGERS
From The Cancer Chronicles #22
© July 1994 by Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
Just as you were getting ready to dust off the rusty hibachi comes a trio of reports that children who regularly eat hamburgers, hot dogs, and/or cured meats increase their risk of developing various kinds of cancer.
Sara Sarasua and David A. Savitz of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studied the eating habits of 440 children, 234 of whom had cancer, as well as of their mothers during pregnancy. These facts "jumped out":
In fact lunch meat was only a risk for children not taking vitamin supplements. "If theres a benefit to taking vitamins," Savitz added, "that benefit is greatest for children who are consuming more of these meats." If, doctor?
These timely findings appeared in March 1994 Cancer Causes and Control. They were assailed by a scientist who contends that cooked beef (and Cheese WhizÆ) have anticancer effects. Meanwhile, an ACS ofÞcial claimed that no deÞnite link has been shown between childhood cancer and frankfurters (Chicago Tribune, 6/4/94).
ACS wants to study the matter further--the same thing they told me when I wrote on carcinogenic nitrates in frankfurters for The Nation back in 1981.
CANCER RISKS LURK IN HOT DOGS AND BURGERS
From The Cancer Chronicles #22
© July 1994 by Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
Just as you were getting ready to dust off the rusty hibachi comes a trio of reports that children who regularly eat hamburgers, hot dogs, and/or cured meats increase their risk of developing various kinds of cancer.
Sara Sarasua and David A. Savitz of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studied the eating habits of 440 children, 234 of whom had cancer, as well as of their mothers during pregnancy. These facts "jumped out":
- Children who ate 12 hot dogs per month had a 9.5 times increased risk of leukemia.
- Children who ate hot dogs once a week doubled their chances of brain tumors; twice a week, they tripled it.
- The children of men who ate franks often had an 11 times greater risk of leukemia than normal.
- Women who ate hot dogs during pregnancy doubled their offsprings chances of developing brain cancer.
- Kids who ate the most ham, bacon and sausage had a tripled risk of lymphoma.
- Kids who ate ground meat once a week had twice the risk of acute lymphocytic leukemia than those who ate none, and triple the risk when they ate two or more hamburgers weekly.
In fact lunch meat was only a risk for children not taking vitamin supplements. "If theres a benefit to taking vitamins," Savitz added, "that benefit is greatest for children who are consuming more of these meats." If, doctor?
These timely findings appeared in March 1994 Cancer Causes and Control. They were assailed by a scientist who contends that cooked beef (and Cheese WhizÆ) have anticancer effects. Meanwhile, an ACS ofÞcial claimed that no deÞnite link has been shown between childhood cancer and frankfurters (Chicago Tribune, 6/4/94).
ACS wants to study the matter further--the same thing they told me when I wrote on carcinogenic nitrates in frankfurters for The Nation back in 1981.
