Yet another thing on the cancerogenic pile sigh At some point you have to ask yourself if everything but water gives us cancer.
If I couldn't grow it or raise it 100 years ago, I don't want to eat it. Open to being convinced otherwise.
Palm oil favors tumor expansion
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Re: Palm oil favors tumor expansion
#12Interesting article. One thing to note is that this study seemed to (correct me if I'm wrong) focus on palmitic acid, which can be found primarily in palm oil, but can also be found in meat, cheese, and butter, to name a few other sources.
Well that's the most horrifying sentence I've read in the past few months.
Re: Palm oil favors tumor expansion
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gotta watch out for lead in the water too!
But if my veins aren't lead lined, what will protect me from banana radiation?
A plantain vest. The rows of plantains attach to all of the body's normal banana receptors before the lethally radioactive bananas can, leaving you unscathed.
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#14Well, this study passes the "we dumped a bunch of X on cancer cells in a petri dish and they did a funny thing" red flag test. Xenographs (implanting human cancer cells into mice) have their own caveats (the immune system is almost always severely compromised), but this seems like a cool study. I'm no expert on oral cancers however. Curious to see the implication of the neuronal cells here, I'm looking forward to rea…
Is nerve growth commonly considered critical in tumor growth and metastasis?
So much of this sounds weird to me and I'm not sure if it's my ignorance or if this is some wacky theory.
Re: Palm oil favors tumor expansion
#15Title is bad.
The article says palmitic acid, formally hexadecanoic acid, which is one of the most common — if not the most common — saturated fatty acids. It's named for palm oil, where it is predominant, but it is also found in coconut oil, lard, butter, cacao, and in smaller amounts in practically all liquid oils, with higher concentrations generally in solid fats.
Better to say "Palmitic acid favors tumor expansion" or even just "Common saturated fat favors tumor expansion".
Re: Palm oil favors tumor expansion
#16Yet another thing on the cancerogenic pile sigh At some point you have to ask yourself if everything but water gives us cancer.
If I couldn't grow it or raise it 100 years ago, I don't want to eat it. Open to being convinced otherwise.
What happened in 1921? Or is this one of those baseless "before we had cancer" comments?
Re: Palm oil favors tumor expansion
#17Interesting article. One thing to note is that this study seemed to (correct me if I'm wrong) focus on palmitic acid, which can be found primarily in palm oil, but can also be found in meat, cheese, and butter, to name a few other sources.
Palm oil seems to be in everything.
It's a cheap oil in Asia due to a bunch of countries trying to develop their agriculture by planting palm (Indonesia etc.)
Makes me think twice about having yan yan snacks and pocky's.
Re: Palm oil favors tumor expansion
#18Yet another thing on the cancerogenic pile sigh At some point you have to ask yourself if everything but water gives us cancer.
If I couldn't grow it or raise it 100 years ago, I don't want to eat it. Open to being convinced otherwise.
Not the worst place to start, but considering palm oil has been used in cooking for thousands of years it's not clear what that principle has to do with this story.
Re: Palm oil favors tumor expansion
#19Yet another thing on the cancerogenic pile sigh At some point you have to ask yourself if everything but water gives us cancer.
being alive gives you cancer
Re: Palm oil favors tumor expansion
#20Yet another thing on the cancerogenic pile sigh At some point you have to ask yourself if everything but water gives us cancer.
If I couldn't grow it or raise it 100 years ago, I don't want to eat it. Open to being convinced otherwise.
You do realise palm oil is older than 100 years, right? Used literally for thousands of years.
"Humans used oil palms as far back as 5,000 years. In the late 1800s, archaeologists discovered a substance that they concluded was originally palm oil in a tomb at Abydos dating back to 3,000 BCE.[4] It is believed that traders brought oil palm to Egypt"