A new study shows that eating meat cooked at high temperature can increase the risk of having cancer.
Long before, charred meat is already known as carcinogenic in nature. A recent study suggests that eating this kind of food can offer a higher risk of kidney cancer. As what the researchers have found out, eating foods cooked in an extremely high temperature increases the risk of having colon, pancreatic, and prostate cancer.
The study was conducted by examining and comparing the genetic data of 659 people diagnosed with renal cancer and 699 people who are considered healthy. The whole research was made successful through the help of a research team coming from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Throughout the examination, it was found out that those who were diagnosed with renal cancer were associated in eating foods cooked at a very high temperature like grilled and pan fried meats. For those individuals who are healthy, a very minimal association with charred food was found.
Dr. Xifeng Wu explained the result of the research and also gives some advice to prevent the development of cancer.
"We found elevated RCC risk associated with both meat intake and meat-cooking mutagens, suggesting independent effect of meat-cooking mutagens on RCC risk. Limit the amount of time the meat is cooked at really high temperatures or over an open flame resulting in burning, smoking, or charring of the meat," stated by the senior study author who is also an epidemiology professor.
Kidney cancer is considered as one of the most common cancer suffered by American men and women. According to The American Cancer Society, 61,000 Americans were diagnosed with renal cancer this year in which 14,000 of them will eventually die from it.
Furthermore, the research also indicates that red meat is not the only food that should be considered dangerous. White meat like chicken was also associated with the development renal cancer.
