Look what we have said,
"Everything that we like or are expensive or fattening or is sin."
But man, one clings to traces of naivety to believe that there will be some silver lining in this absurd rule. No, eventually we come to the penance in the form of love handles, reporting bank or, worse, the threat of cancer, contemporary presentation of purgatory.
And that's what happens to the chips, that modest food that catches our will as we tested. Cheap, nutritious, easy to prepare ... but with many killjoys bent on punishing the palate. Two or three years ago showed the presence of acrylamide, a dangerous substance that is usually formed in high-temperature treatment of foods with starch in the presence of fat, such as by frying potatoes.
Well, not only generates heat carcinogens in potato. Also years ago and jumped the alarm in the United States to find the exponent of the "sophisticated" national cuisine, barbecue, caused the appearance of cancer in areas scorched meat-yes, the tastiest, if you have already been saying ...-, also by high temperature in the contact area.
But the chips have been accumulating more and more evidence against him, as the Reuters news of this August that linked the high consumption of crisps in children with a higher incidence of breast cancer to become adults .
And that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just not be clear.
"Acrylamide can cause cancer in laboratory animals at high doses, but it is not clear that low levels in foods can cause cancer in humans."
By the way, some have put the cart before the horse and has been to regulate the matter. Well, the thing is that Californians, led by the astute leadership of Arnold Schwazennager, soon find themselves in all kinds of bags of chips messages that warn of potential danger of this food .
Knowing the Governor, I imagine to be subtle messages, like those found on the packages of snuff:
"Eat potatoes can kill."
And the potatoes with the snuff share that point of addiction. Once you make the first, because no one stops to finish the bag. It is to take a joke, that one thing is acrylamide and other more serious are the Americans. I do not dislike them to tell us the risks, what worries me is that sooner or later want to save.
I'm already seeing: areas reserved for eaters of chips, consumer clinics worms coupled with the obligation to serve chips and hot dogs with carrot sticks. Anyway, I am eating eggs with boiled potatoes. If at least give the budget to accompany cachelos with "octopus ..."
