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Research implicating acrylamides as a cause of cancer has been kicking around for years - but what I've never seen addressed in research is the distinction betw
by detritus 12y ago
Research implicating acrylamides as a cause of cancer has been kicking around for years - but what I've never seen addressed in research is the distinction between humankind's meta-evolutionary pathway whereby we've deployed fire to predigest our food for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.
Given the fairly distinct change this has had on our digestive tract in terms of its dimension (it's relatively small given our energy requirements) to me it's not inconceivable that we might've also evolved a certain tolerance to acrylamides too?
Just a thought - it seems to me this sort of research is one wherein the reliance upon rats as test subjects is more questionable than usual...