Barbecue meats linked with prostate cancer Mon Apr 3, 12:53 AM ET



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A compound formed when meat is charred at high temperatures -- as in barbecue -- encourages the growth of prostate cancer in rats, researchers reported on Sunday.



Their study, presented at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, may help explain the link between eating meat and a higher risk of prostate cancer.

It also fits in with other studies suggesting that cooking meat until it chars might cause cancer.

The compound, called PhIP, is formed when meat is cooked at very high temperatures, Dr. Angelo De Marzo and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore reported.

It appears to both initiate and promote the growth of prostate cancer in rats, they said.

"We stumbled across a new potential interaction between ingestion of cooked meat in the diet and cancer in the rat," De Marzo said in a statement.

"For humans, the biggest problem is that it's extremely difficult to tell how much PhIP you've ingested, since different amounts are formed depending on cooking conditions."

For the study, Yatsutomo Nakai and other members of De Marzo's team mixed PhIP into food given to rats for up to eight weeks, then studied the animals' prostates, intestines and spleens. They found genetic mutations in all the organs after four weeks.

Whatever.

Newsflash: EVERYTHING CAN KILL YOU. GIVE UP.

You're supposed to eat it, Priest, not shove it up your...


And as far as I'm concerned, anything that causes cancer in rats is OK by me.

don't char it then. slow cooking is better anyway.

Bingo! Someone's confusing Grilling (cooking over hot coals or open flame at high heat) with BBQing (cooking slowly with low, indirect, smoky heat).

I was about to come in here and scream that BBQ involves no charring whatsoever, but you beat me to it.

Inside chopped, thank you.

Yeah, I was under the impression charred, BBQ meats would increase the chance of stomach cancer, or something like that...it's all bad.

fukkkk I want some barbecue right now

Most white people think that BBQ = Blackened, grissly shit.

Including Canada. We can't barbecue worth shit.

After an epiphany in Kansas City in 1994 (greatest two meals of my life), I had to re-learn the whole process.

Don't feel bad...even in Chicago, good BBQ is hard to come by. The realm of BBQ really does belong to places like KC, the Carolinas, Texas, and Memphis, to name a few. I'm a pulled pork kinda guy, so I'm partial to Carolina BBQ. I don't know of a single place that does great pulled pork in Chicago--I have to smoke it myself.

If anyone wants to master 'cue, this guy knows what he's talking about.