This is relevant, imho, even to our dogs homemade foods.
Cooking Methods And Cancer
When treating or preventing cancer, just as important as whatyou eat and when you eat, is how you cook your food. High-heat methods are commonly used, such as baking, frying (including air-frying), roasting, grilling, searing, broiling, and toasting. Toxic compounds called advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) are formed when food—especially food high in fat and animal protein—is subjected to temperatures above 300ºF. Under high temperatures, carbohydrates are thermally broken down into monosaccharides and proteins into amino acids. These monosaccharides and amino acids then chemically bind with each other in what is known as the Maillard reaction, and this reaction creates AGEs.
Chronic consumption of high amounts of AGEs can lead to vascular endothelial dysfunction, systemic inflammation, and oxidative damage to cellular lipids and proteins. This in turn accelerates the aging process and increases the risk of cancer, heart attack, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, diabetes, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, cataracts, kidney disease, infertility, erectile dysfunction, degenerative disc disease, arthritis, impaired wound healing, muscle loss, and osteoporosis.
To lessen your exposure to AGEs, avoid frying, roasting, grilling, searing, broiling, toasting, and baking above 300ºF. Stay away from highly-processed foods and utilize lower-temperature cooking methods such as boiling, poaching, steaming, sauteing with water instead of oil, slow-cooking (Crock Pot), pressure-cooking (Instant Pot), and baking below 300ºF using a steam oven. To reduce AGEs in the body, participate in regular exercise. And to reduce the toxic effects of AGEs, incorporate cinnamon, cumin, ginger, rosemary, turmeric, cruciferous vegetables, green tea, onions, and pomegranate into your diet.
Dr. Daniel Thomas, DO, MS
Metabolic & Nutritional Medicine
Integrative Cancer Therapeutics
Mount Dora, Florida
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Disclaimer:
This information is for educational purposes only and not intended or implied to be personal medical advice. That is for your personal physician to provide after he or she carefully studies the references above