Omg no, summer is ruined!
Omg no, summer is ruined! Don't panic. To save several of you some time, I know you will immediately dismiss any of this once you read:
lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
Not to be unfair to the state of nutritional science.
This may not be entirely a nothing-burger, however:
1) Sounds like retrospective data analysis. Even though it's from several well regarded large (like, huge) population studies, I cannot believe this was part of the study design beforehand.
2) You can find papers (about human diets) noting that PAHs (Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) exist in grains and veggies. Raw. Same? Different? What if you grill veggies? Not the veggies!
3) What kind of grilling? Gas, charcoal, wood? Were chemicals involved in starting the fire, baked into the briquettes? Inquiring minds. (There's a lot of papers about the PAHs in charcoal for cooking, fyi).
4) The study acknowledges its limitations. Like it's white people, all the way down. Which made me wonder if anyone ever thought about looking at cultures that have different diets because of the traditionally available foods.
For example, some cultures in places like Mongolia and Kazakhstan eat a very meat heavy diet (also some dairy) because that's what they've got. I don't know if they grill it, but I wonder what a study would find if they had the data.
5) This may or may not be very disappointing to those people who jumped on the eating charcoal is good for your health train. Like, they were actually eating powdered activated charcoal, and not because they were acutely poisoned.
Ultimately, since I love the smell and taste of things cooked over hardwood (open fire, grill, whatever), not to mention just the plain old smell of wood fires, and I like the burnt ends, so-called, if this study is ever borne out as something causal, well. I guess I just love the smell and taste of death, then.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180321162250.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180321162250.htm
lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
Not to be unfair to the state of nutritional science.
This may not be entirely a nothing-burger, however:
1) Sounds like retrospective data analysis. Even though it's from several well regarded large (like, huge) population studies, I cannot believe this was part of the study design beforehand.
2) You can find papers (about human diets) noting that PAHs (Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) exist in grains and veggies. Raw. Same? Different? What if you grill veggies? Not the veggies!
3) What kind of grilling? Gas, charcoal, wood? Were chemicals involved in starting the fire, baked into the briquettes? Inquiring minds. (There's a lot of papers about the PAHs in charcoal for cooking, fyi).
4) The study acknowledges its limitations. Like it's white people, all the way down. Which made me wonder if anyone ever thought about looking at cultures that have different diets because of the traditionally available foods.
For example, some cultures in places like Mongolia and Kazakhstan eat a very meat heavy diet (also some dairy) because that's what they've got. I don't know if they grill it, but I wonder what a study would find if they had the data.
5) This may or may not be very disappointing to those people who jumped on the eating charcoal is good for your health train. Like, they were actually eating powdered activated charcoal, and not because they were acutely poisoned.
Ultimately, since I love the smell and taste of things cooked over hardwood (open fire, grill, whatever), not to mention just the plain old smell of wood fires, and I like the burnt ends, so-called, if this study is ever borne out as something causal, well. I guess I just love the smell and taste of death, then.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180321162250.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180321162250.htm
Everything will kill you, the end.
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