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January 18, 2013
PhIP: The Three Strikes Breast Carcinogen
The cooked meat carcinogen PhIP found in fried bacon, fish, and chicken may not only trigger cancer and promote tumor growth, but also increase its metastatic potential by increasing its
January 16, 2013
Estrogenic Cooked Meat Carcinogens
DNA-damaging chemicals formed when meat is cooked stimulate breast cancer cells almost as much as pure estrogen and can infiltrate the ducts where most breast cancers arise.
October 23, 2012
President’s Cancer Panel Report on Environmental Risk
The official National Cancer Institute report on the "unacceptable" burden of cancer stemming from industrial chemical pollutants is strongly worded, but lacks sufficient dietary guidance.
July 9, 2012
Antimutagenic Activity of Green Versus White Tea
The ability of green versus white tea to protect against in vitro DNA damage caused by a cooked chicken carcinogen (heterocyclic amine).
April 9, 2012
Chicken Dioxins, Viruses, or Antibiotics?
The association between poultry and cancer may be explained by the presence in chickens' and turkeys' flesh of industrial carcinogens such as dioxins, oncogenic (cancer-causing) viruses, and/or the...
March 27, 2012
Breast Cancer Survival, Butterfat, and Chicken
Breast cancer survivors may reduce their chances of survival if they eat too much saturated fat, found primarily in the American diet in cheese, chicken, and junk food.
December 30, 2011
Preventing Childhood Allergies
What is responsible for the rising prevalence of atopic diseases such as food allergies, asthma, hay fever, and eczema?
November 18, 2009
Fast Food Tested for Carcinogens
Chicken from seven fast food outlets were tested to see which had the highest levels of carcinogenic heterocyclic amines.
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