According to !SCIENCE!, two of my favorite foods are dangerous:
Croissants, baguettes and even breakfast cereals could be exposing millions to a cancer-linked toxic metal, French health chiefs have warned.
A major report has raised alarm over levels of cadmium in everyday foods, with experts saying nearly half of the French population may be consuming ‘concerning’ amounts through their diet alone.
The heavy metal, which is found in fertilizers used in modern farming, can build up in soil and enter staple foods eaten daily by millions.
Scientists say products ranging from bread and pastries to pasta, rice and potatoes are among the biggest sources of exposure, with diet accounting for up to 98 per cent of intake in non-smokers.
The findings, published by France’s food safety agency ANSES, have been described as ‘worrying’, with warnings the risks could grow if no action is taken.
Cadmium has been linked to a range of cancers, including those affecting the pancreas, bladder, prostate and breast. It has also been associated with brittle bones, kidney damage and cardiovascular disease.
Géraldine Carne, an expertise coordinator at the agency, warned that long-term health impacts are likely to increase if exposure is not reduced.
Okay, so it’s not just croissants and baguettes that could be dangerous because of this cadmium stuff, but just about every agricultural product we eat.
So in essence, we’re all gonna DIIIIEEEEE from eating because #CadmiumBadShit.
Phew… for a moment I thought I was going to have to cut down on baguettes and croissants.
Just for the record: French baguette — as made by my local grocery store, Market Street — is the only bread I eat, except when I’m eating croissants (usually from Kroger or Dunkin Donuts) for Saturday/Sunday brekkie. I seldom put any other breads in my mouth, unless I’m feeling rich and happen to be close to a Central Market store, in which case I get a Batard loaf. (I wrote about my love of bread back in 2019, in case anyone’s interested, and very little has changed since then. #SetInMyWays #SurpriseSurprise)
Anyway, that reminds me: I’m running low on baguette, so if you’ll excuse me…
…I’m going to get some on my way back from the range.
HTF is cadmium getting into fertiliser? Fertiliser should be nitrates & stuff, not heavy metals.
A new study spanning 10,000 years has shown that just about all foods will kill everyone eventually.
This proven by the fact that virtually every living creature eats something and then on varying timescales they eventually die. Strange, no?
I’m in the last eighth of my life and I see no reason to make any major changes, but that method itself is susceptable to change without warning. shrug
As George Carlin observed years ago: “The surgeon general announced today that saliva causes stomach cancer. However, only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.”
I’ve worked in healthcare and I’m stunned when older people are put on restrictive diets. After a life time of red meats, processed deli meats, high dairy consumption, sugar in and on everything etc etc. will a restrictive diet really have any impact on the health of an older person? At some point just write your own ticket and enjoy your food. Remember, no one gets out of this life alive.
This.
Even if you are 40 or 50. Shit. Eat a few things you like.
Not saying to eat fast food every day for breakfast lunch and dinner but eat some bad stuff.
# YOLO
# veggies are good but gotta have some junk now and again
# ever notice the same people telling us that some foods are bad told people to get an rushed to market and not well tested vaccine for the chi com virus? “Safe and effective”
“A major report has raised alarm …”
If this is true, the publisher will gleefully congratulate the editor and writer.
“The heavy metal [cadmium], which is found in fertilizers used in modern farming,…”
Could that have anything to do with ammonia-based fertilizers for Europe come from shitholia – the Middle East?
Allegedly according to some research bacon takes time away from life.
What’s my take?
I’ll have extra bacon and red meat please.
Oh and double up on the coffee and tea please. Caffeinated only.
# Fuck stupidity
# Eat natural real food
# People Eating Tasty animals and of course a side of sugars and carbs once in a while.
Gotta love it. “A great many people who ate carrots in 1881, died”. Hint — pretty much guaranteed that everybody who lived in 1881 has died.
At our age, more likely we will die with it, not from it. Enjoy.
I’m reminded of the Joe Jackson song “Everything Gives You Cancer”, especially since I just lost about 2′ of small intestine and 8″ of Colon, plus some other stuff to surgery for cancer in January. Restricted diet for now, but I can eat bread and I love baguettes too.
I wanna know how Cadmium is getting into food too.
And !SCIENCE! remnds me of Thoams Dolby’s “She Blinded Me With Science”, so now I’ve got two earworms in my head!