Eating hot dogs increases your risk of developing cancer. In 2009, the American Institute for cancer research issued a precedent - setting report. Basing their findings on 7000 scientific studies, researchers declared that for every 50 grams of processed meat - that's just one hot dog - you increase your risk for developing colorectal cancer by 21%. Studies have also found, children who consume more than 12 hot dogs per month have nine times the normal risk of developing childhood leukemia.
Hot dogs pose such a great risk because they are loaded with carcinogenic ingredients. Of particular notoriety are nitrates and nitrites, two chemicals that, when heated, combine with amines to form nitrosamines, which have been proven to cause cancer.
To clarify, nitrates aren’t intrinsically harmful. Many vegetables contain nitrates that convert into nitrites in the body. These nitrites are the building block of nitric oxide, which helps lower blood pressure and heals with anti-inflammatory properties. The nitrates found in processed meat, however, are synthetic, added merely to provide that attractive pink effect people like so much in a hot dog. When heated at high temperatures, a part of the manufacturing process of hot dogs, these nitrates create nitrosamines that inflict cellular damage and instigate cancer, especially stomach, colon, bladder, and pancreas cancers. Processed meats are also much higher in amines (the component needed to form carcinogenic nitrosamines) than are vegetables.
Nitrosamines aren’t the only carcinogenic compound to be leery of. Meat cooked at high temperatures also forms other cancer-causing chemicals, like heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and advanced glycation end products (AGEs). Not to mention, what hot dogs are actually made of!
Your typical hot dog is made from a ground-up mishmash of animal carcass, featuring animal feet, heads, entrails, fatty tissues, skins, and other slaughter by-products. To make the hot dog edible, food manufacturers add fillers, binders, flavorings, and preservatives that stimulate the carcinogenic effect. These ingredients hail from Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) that keep the animals in deplorable, unsanitary conditions, greatly compromising food quality.
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