Cooking Advice

It is a widely held tradition to throw a steak or chicken wings onto your barbeque in the height of summer. Summer is just not quite the same without as many barbeques as you can squeeze into a 10 week period. There could, however, be nasty and potentially fatal consequences to nibbling on barbequed and grilled foods too often.

It is very well known that not cooking meats for long enough can cause different types of disease and even sometimes, death. Now it has become apparent that cooking meats for too long can cause cancer, if you eat this kind of food a lot.

PhIP is the cause. This is the chemical that is produced when the outside of a piece of meat becomes too charred, and over cooked. That tasty looking black lining around lots of barbequed food could potentially be a killer. These results were released at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Tests were performed on rats, whereby PhIP was placed into the rat’s food. The rats developed a number of cancers in different parts of their internal organs after as little as four weeks. It was also revealed that PhIP is NOT the only cancer causing compound that is released when meat is overcooked. HCAs increase the risk of developing cancer in various areas of the digestive system and in women, breast cancer.

But wait; there is another one, called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs.

PAHs appear when fat is left behind on the barbeque or grill surface. These fats then burn, dripping onto the coals then sticking to the next foodstuff that is placed on the grill. This chemical is thought to increase the risk of prostate cancer in men and breast cancer in women, amongst some other digestive cancers.

These findings do not mean that you should break the age old tradition of a family summer barbeque; it just means you need to be a little bit more careful about the way that you cook and serve the food:

Start her up! – It is best to turn the grill onto full power for ten minutes to burn off any of the past grilling mess, and then spray with water, but stand back and be very careful.

Trim the Fat – This does not only make the meat seem healthier, it also nearly eliminates the cause for a build up of PAH on the grill or barbeque surface.

Get rid of the pieces of meat that char, try not to eat them.

Man depends on food to sustain his life. A good healthy food provides vigor, vitality and health and keeps you free from diseases. Before the advent of fire, man was taking only raw foods which were available in the nature. Raw foods supply nutrients to cell, tissues, organs of body and mind. Coked foods take lot of time to digest and produce diseases and also shorten life. Raw foods needs only one fourth of the time required for digestion by the cooked foods.

Boiling destroy some of the vital nutrients available in vegetables and other food items. Now a days people have started using processed and fast foods of natural vegetables.

After digestion either raw or cooked foods ends in acid or alkaline also in the body. Our body is composed of 70-80% alkaline and 20-30% acid. So one must use raw foods about 80% of alkaline nature and 20% of acid nature. Most of the raw foods contain alkaline and minerals must be used for neutralizing the acid media in the body.

Usually fresh fruits and vegetables are meant for purifying the blood as they are having healing and cleansing property. Antioxidants are useful for health and to live long. The deep colored raw vegetables are having antioxidants which when taken will work as antioxidants otherwise oxidants are dangerous to health. Raw foods and fruits are beneficial in diarrhea, heart, kidney, obesity, cancer and diabetes. Raw foods avoid disease in person. So, one must take raw foods, raw and fresh fruits and vegetables to live long healthily and happily.

Disclaimer: This article is not meant to provide health advice and is for general information only. Always seek the insights of a qualified health professional before embarking on any health program.

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