pdt (03/23/83)
Believe it or else, the February, 1983, issue of AMERICAN LABORATORY contains an article about cancer prevention. Strange as it may sound, two antioxidant food additives, butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) have actually been identified as "specific agents that inhibit [!] carcinogen-induced cancers". The author cites J.Toxicol.Environ.Health, 5-6, 963 (1980) as the source (no, I haven't looked it up) of this unexpected information. What is this world coming to, when you can't even hate completely the chemicals they dump in our food???
keller (03/31/83)
#R:mhuxv:-700:uicsl:3800005:000:560 uicsl!keller Mar 30 20:56:00 1983 And the story doesn't end with BHT and BHA. I eat to satisfy certain instinctive needs, but that shouldn't prevent me from taking advantage of the knowledge gained in chemistry and biology when they can improve on instinct. If any of you haven't read "Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach" by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw you are missing out on one of the finest books ever written presenting scientific knowledge and how to apply it. It will revolutionize your outlook on eating and health. Shaun Keller (...pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!keller)
keller (04/02/83)
#R:ihuxm:-17800:uicsl:3800006:000:930 uicsl!keller Apr 1 10:49:00 1983 ***** uicsl:net.cooks / sdchema!djo / 12:24 pm Mar 24, 1983 I like the quote from the article that says, "...specific agents that inhibit carcinogen-induced cancers...", I didn't know that one could induce cancer without (gulp) carcinogens! They probably do inhibit other forms of cancer but that is proboably due to the fact that the form of cancer from bha and bht is so overwhelming that it suppresses other forms at the same time!!! Also, the level of these components ingested by humans everyday is probably many times higher than the levels used in tests as an anti-carcinogen so the end result is that the other cancers are replaced by preservatives cancer.... big (you fill in the blank) deal... I could speculate on the data (whether I have it or not) all day, but I'd rather go eat (a non-preservative non-additive) lunch. ---------- Dear sdchema!djo, You have the most amazing deductive ability I've ever seen!