CANCER DOG
November 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
AN AMERICAN study has found a possible link between hot dogs and colon cancer. University of Nebraska researcher Dr. Sidney Mirvish - who has studied processed meats for 30 years - found increased levels of nitrosamines (NOCs), a suspected carcinogen, in the faeces of mice fed a diet of hot dogs. He found much lower levels when the mice were fed fresh meat.
Dr Mirvish, a research scientist at Nebraska's Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer, discovered that a diet of hot dogs produces NOC levels in bodies 10 times higher than a diet of fresh ...
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