"Despite theories to the contrary, adults who eat a lot of meat may not have a heightened risk of the most common type of malignant brain tumor, a new study finds.Now nitrosamines are not bad again. (e.g., good, bad, good, bad)
The study, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, looked at the potential link between brain tumors called gliomas and people's intake of meat and compounds called nitrosamines.
Nitrosamines, which are potentially cancer-promoting, are present in certain foods, or are formed in the body other chemicals we eat called sodium nitrites and nitrates. These compounds are used in preserving and flavoring processed and cured meats -- like hot dogs, bacon, sausage and ham -- which makes those foods major sources of dietary nitrosamines.
For several decades, researchers have thought that nitrosamines -- which can cross from the blood to the brain -- may contribute to the risk of gliomas, a group of brain tumors that makes up about 80 percent of malignant brain cancers in adults.
But studies so far have come to inconsistent conclusions.
For the new study, researchers used data from three large ongoing health studies of U.S. doctors and nurses whose diets and lifestyle habits have been periodically surveyed for up to three decades.
They found that among the nearly 238,000 men and women in the studies, just 335 were diagnosed with gliomas at some point. There were no links between the risk of developing the disease and participants' intake of meat, processed meat, nitrites, nitrates or nitrosamines.
What's more, there was no elevated risk among meat lovers who also had low intakes of antioxidants like vitamins C and E -- which slow down the formation of nitrosamines in the stomach."
Which answers the question at the beginning in the following, correct way:
If you do, what are you? Stupid or what?
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