Text 31062, 67 rader
Skriven 2012-11-17 20:14:55 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 30941 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: toxins 538
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 10 Nov 12  09:32:00 <=-

 ML>> fired beyond the crisp brown stage and chars and gets sooty,
 ML>> when it is said to be carcinogenic.
 NB>> But doesn't that turn it into charcoal which is said to be good for
 NB>> removing toxins...?  ;)
 ML> I know you put a smiley in there, but I just need to expound a
 ML> bit on that. Charcoal is good for removing toxins because of all
 ML> the holes in its structure, left when the noncarbon elements go
 ML> away during combustion. You essentially trap the poisons in this
 ML> matrix of relatively stable and inert walls, and out they go.
 ML> As time after manufacture passes, the holes get filled with
 ML> assorted junk, which is why the first aid books used to say to
 ML> have fresh "activated" charcoal on hand - which is charcoal that
 ML> has (as recently as possible) been heated to drive off the junk.

Yup, I knew that, and the below, which is why the wink-smiley... 

 ML> Charred meat fat is different. First, it isn't all carbon,
 ML> unless something dreadfully wrong has gone on in the kitchen.
 ML> Plus the products of incomplete combustion of protein and fat
 ML> include complex chemicals some of which have been implicated in
 ML> several types of cancer. This of course hasn't stopped me from
 ML> eating bacon and barbecue.
 
Hasn't stopped me either, although I wouldn't make a steady diet of
grilled/charred meats or barbecue anyway.  

 NB>> It sounds like a neat flight... and I certainly hope that there
 NB>> won't be a new aircraft loss that includes you...

 ML> Well, the airline flies several thousand flights a year, and
 ML> it's lost one aircraft in 15 years. Looking at it a little
 ML> less optimistically, though, that was 10% of its fleet and,
 ML> in fact, the type that I am going to be in is the same as
 ML> the one that crashed,

Here's to the odds staying in your favor all the same..  :)

 NB>> If one listened to all the experts, none of us could eat anything at
 NB>> all... 

 ML> Truth. And one can find "expert" justification for anything.
 ML> I discover that my own preferences (except my fondness for
 ML> alcohol) can be justified as part of the stone-age diet, the
 ML> Dukan diet, or Atkins. Yay, Atkins!

One just has to keep looking for a diet that fits what you want... [g] 
Or not worry about what the experts say...  :)
 
 ML> I made a kettle of stuffed cabbage and peppers the other day,
 ML> and my hosts hauled out a bag of frozen tomatoes, and I asked,
 ML> did you grow them, and they said, no, one of the neighbors did,
 ML> so that was good enough. Holy cow, they were tart and sweet and
 ML> made my taste buds sing, and I'd almost forgotten how intense
 ML> tomatoes could be.

Probably picked at their peak or close to it, and frozen straight off. 
And apparently a good variety taste-wise as well..  :)  Years ago, I
grew my own tomatoes... nothing beat getting one right off the vine and
slicing it into a sandwich...  :)

ttyl         neb

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