We're All Toast!!!

[ChillDoubt]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38680622

Jeezus Aitch Kerrist, really?
Talk about scaremongering!

You've gotta die of something....

[Cloverjo]

I'm not giving up my toast. Anyway, who puts potatoes in the fridge?

[youngmafbog]

Yep, burnt toast apparently.

Honestly, I don't think there is a single food left that wont do us some harm.

[aelmpvw]

//However, Cancer Research UK said the link was not proven in humans.//

just don't give your pet brown titbits of toast

[cassa333]

Toast isn't toast if it doesn't have a good colour. Golden toast is just bread that doesn't have stamina.

[naomi24]

Scientists have been saying for years that burnt toast causes cancer.

[youngmafbog]

Better not put butter on it or your heart will stop

And no Marmalade or you will be obese

.........

I thought 2016 would put an end to 'experts' given that we all know they are anything but now.

[douglas9401]

Light toast good, dark toast bad.

Thinly veiled racism if ever I saw it. :P

[youngmafbog]

I've been saying for year labour are ***, doesnt mean they are!

[youngmafbog]

Nice one Douglass

[Old_Geezer]

Seems to me that if you cook food properly to release the flavours and aromas then it is bad for you but it you make a half hearted attempt to cook for then that's fine. Typical of life ain't it. Whatever you like is bad for you.

Burnt toast has been known for years but not browned. And what about the biscuits, cakes, chips, roast potatoes ?

(I have occasionally wondered why burnt toast was supposed to be so bad yet carbon tablets recommended to ease wind.)

Well, I think I'll take my chances until they come up with a way to allow food to be cooked properly yet neutralise the possible risks.

[Khandro]

//However, Cancer Research UK said the link was not proven in humans.//

Proof please. There is even less proof for these stupid assertions than there is proof that the Russians rigged the US elections.

[weecalf]

Over the years and I'm nearly 50 I do stand back in amazement why all surveys from medical folk are always published in time for to be a subject on Breakfast on BBC television in the morning .What next Spurs supporters wait the title may not be to long away .Wonderful eh .

[carolegif]

My Mum always ate burnt toast and lived until 87! She had no other way of cooking it, she burnt out several toasters!lol!

[OldBather]

This is from Cancer Research's Website:~
And finally

It’s highly unlikely that “EU health chiefs” are saying “toast gives you cancer” – despite what the Mail Online says. The article focuses on a chemical called acrylamide – which can form in burnt toast – and has been shown to cause cancer in mice. But the important caveat that’s missing is that the doses used in these studies were in huge excess of what might be found in food, suggesting it’s unlikely burnt toast will cause cancer.

[jim360]

"The ymb 2016 theory: the more expert you are, the less you know about what it is you are an expert about."

??

[Khandro]

The only way to get proof, (and that wouldn't even be conclusive) would be to get a large number of people to totally abstain from toast for their entire lives, and a similar sized group to eat lots of burnt toast every day for their lives, and see what results.
With the link between smoking and cancer we already had large groups of users and abstainers, and even then it took a long time to make the connection

[Togo]

Cartoon in the paper today. Kid with school satchel and a fag dangling from mouth. Mother saying "and if anyone tries to give you a crispy roast potato at the party.....just say no". :))

[jim360]

With respect to the actual story, I agree that the risk appears to have been massively exaggerated, but I don't think that's entirely the (expert) scientists' faults.

[jourdain2]

Yesterday we really enjoyed our roast veg. platter - potatoes, parsnips, carrots and cauli. and I fully intend to carry on cooking it! No, I did not turn carefully to avoid brown bits! This sort of nanny-state-ism makes me want to cook it every day - I used lard as well, because I'd run out of goose-fat. Mr. J2 is 83 - and my dad lived until 90, telling me that really burnt toast was charcoal which was good for the digestion. Back in the 70's someone found that lettuce was carcinogenic, too.

[ludwig]

Burnt toast has been associated with cancer for as long as I can remember - ie decades.