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[arethinn]

So, it appears that many cooked foods (up to 40% of all the foods an average person eats), including bread and coffee but especially starchy and fried things like potato chips and french fries, have been found to contain some level of acrylamide, which is a carcinogenic substance heretofore known best as a chemical for treating sewage. Well no wonder everyone's getting cancer these days. >_<

In other news, what is that big fabric backdrop at the very back of a stage called? You know, the one that's horrendously expensive because it can't have seams in it? The word scrim keeps coming to mind and I know that's something else entirely (big sheet of basically gauze, used for invisibility effects and the like).

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Cyc

[rumpelteaser.livejournal.com]

Pronounced "psyche"
Short for Cyclorama.

Re: Cyc

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

The cyc! I remember now! Thanks.

[illuviel.livejournal.com]

40% you say. Is this due to modern food processing, or is it inherent in all cooked foods? Either way, I'm glad I'm greatly curtailing (like to 0% ifwhen I can help it)the amount of cooked foods I'm eating.

Do you have a citation for this? stonn's greatly interested in disease prevention; I think having numbers would help his scientific mind understand why I'm forgoing the fire. "Man make fire. Fire make food tasty." If fire make food carcinogenic, besides, that's another story.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

It was a fairly brief article (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/8365691.htm) in my local peper today. My feeling is that it's a combination of factors, having to do with the way we cook and process foods, as well as the way we grow them. It doesn't make any mention, for instance, of whether this goes for organic foods as well as conventionally farmed ones.

[illuviel.livejournal.com]

All important to know. Thanks for the headsup, will see what I can find; if it's any more than this, will pass it on.