Benzopyrene becomes the "culprit"
Recently, after three years of research, the World Health Organization recently selected and published six healthiest foods and ten top junk foods, saying that eating barbecue is equivalent to smoking.
A research center in the United States reported that eating a roast chicken leg is equivalent to smoking 60 cigarettes. Who says eating barbecue is as harmful as smoking?
1 roast chicken leg =60 cigarettes
According to the Legal Evening News, winter is the golden season for barbecue, and the business of barbecue food such as mutton skewers is very hot. Recently, however, the World Health Organization released the results of a three-year study, saying that eating barbecue is equivalent to the toxicity of smoking.
A research center in the United States reported that eating a roast chicken leg is equivalent to smoking 60 cigarettes.
Women who eat barbecue regularly have twice the risk of breast cancer as women who don't like barbecue food. Experts explained that because the meat is barbecued directly at high temperature, the decomposed fat drips on the charcoal fire and then combines with protein in the meat, which will produce a carcinogen called benzopyrene. If people often eat barbecue food contaminated by benzopyrene, carcinogens will accumulate in the body, which may induce gastric cancer and intestinal cancer.
Regarding the "toxicity" of barbecue foods, Hao, director of the Department of Occupational Diseases and Poisoning Medicine of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, told reporters that because these foods contain high fat and calories, they have a great relationship with "modern diseases" such as hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Oil will change its chemical structure under the action of high temperature, which may have adverse effects on people's health.