When I was a child, we cherished hot dogs! It was an incredible simple snack that we could simply pop into the microwave after school. On evenings when our mother was working, my father used to make our top choice – hot dogs cut up in Mac & Cheese. Gracious man, those were past times worth remembering.

There are those incredible picnics like on the fourth of July when father would heat up the barbecue. The Fourth of July is the greatest sausage occasion of the year, with Americans bringing down an expected 155 million hot dogs.

Despite the fact that Americans consume hot dogs throughout the entire year, we consume an expected seven billion between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

Yes, so what’s the major problem?

As indicated by a L.A. Times article:

“Children who eat more than 12 hot dogs per month have nine times the normal risk of developing childhood leukemia, a USC epidemiologist has reported in a cancer research journal. Two other reports in the same issue of Cancer Causes and Control suggest that children born to mothers who eat at least one hot dog per week during pregnancy have double the normal risk of developing brain tumors, as do children whose fathers ate hot dogs before conception.”

Nitrates in Hot Dogs

Concerned? You ought to be.

Q: What’s the issue with hot dogs?

A: Nitrite additives in hotdogs structure cancer-causing agents.

Request to boycott nitrites. Three separate studies have turned out in the previous year, finding that the utilization of hot dogs can be a danger element for childhood cancer.

Peters et al. considered the relationship between the admission of specific food and the danger of leukemia in youngsters from conception to age 10 in Los Angeles County somewhere around 1980 and 1987.

The study found that youngsters consuming more than 12 hot dogs every month have nine times the typical danger of creating youth leukemia. A solid danger for adolescence leukemia likewise existed for those kids whose fathers’ admission of hot dogs was 12 or more every month.

Specialists Sarusua and Savitz concentrated on adolescence disease cases in Denver and found that kids born to moms who used to eat hot dogs one or more times each week amid pregnancy has pretty nearly twofold the danger of creating brain tumors. Youngsters who consumed hot dogs one or more times each week were additionally at higher danger of brain cancer.

Bunin et al, likewise found that maternal utilization of hot dogs amid pregnancy was connected with an overabundance danger of childhood brain tumor.

Q: How could hot dogs cause cancer?

A: Hot dogs contain nitrites which are utilized as additives, essentially to battle botulism. Amid the cooking methodology, nitrites join with amines characteristically shown in meat to structure cancer-causing N-nitroso mixes. It is likewise suspected that nitrites can join with amines in the human stomach to structure N-nitroso mixes. These mixes are known cancer-causing agents and have been connected with tumor of the oral cavity, urinary bladder, throat, stomach and cerebrum.

Q: A few vegetables contain nitrites, do they cause disease as well?

A: Nitrites are usually found in numerous green vegetables, particularly spinach, celery and green lettuce. Be that as it may, the utilization of vegetables has all the earmarks of being successful in lessening the danger of tumor. How is this possible? The clarification lies in the arrangement of N-nitroso mixes from nitrites and amines. Nitrite containing vegetables additionally have Vitamin C and D, which serve to repress the arrangement of N-nitroso mixes. Therefore, vegetables are truly sheltered and solid, and serve to lessen your malignancy hazard.

Q: Do other food products contain nitrites?

A: Yes, all cured meats contain nitrites. These incorporate bacon and fish.

Q: Are all hot dogs a danger for childhood cancer?

A: No. Not all hot dogs available contain nitrites. In light of present day refrigeration techniques, nitrites are currently utilized more for the red color they create (which is connected with freshness) than for safeguarding. Nitrite-free hot dogs taste the same as nitrite hot dogs, but they have an earthy color that has restricted their fame among buyers. At the point when cooked, nitrite-free hot dogs are splendidly protected and solid.

Hare are 4 things that you can do:

1. Don’t purchase hot dogs containing nitrite. It is particularly vital that youngsters and parents don’t eat 12 or more of these hot dogs a month.
2. Demand that your grocery store has nitrite-free hot dogs available.
3. Contact your nearby school board and figure out whether youngsters are being served nitrite hot dogs in the cafeteria. Request that they utilize nitrite-free hot dogs.
4. Write the FDA and express your worry that nitrite-hot dogs are not marked for their cancer danger to kids. You can mention PC’s petition on hot dogs, docket #: 95P 0112/CP1.

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