{"id":15819,"date":"2002-06-26T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-26T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/26\/the-who-world-health-organization-is\/"},"modified":"2002-06-26T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-26T11:20:00","slug":"the-who-world-health-organization-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/26\/the-who-world-health-organization-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WHO (World Health Organization) is investigating whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/stories\/2002\/06\/24\/Consumers\/cancerfries_020624\" target=\"_blank\">potato chips and french fries cause cancer<\/a>.  Apparently, a study found that high levels of acrylamide, which is present in some starch-based foods, were carcinogenic in mice.  I saw a news story last night that said that the levels would have to be very high to affect humans, but wouldn&rsquo;t it figure if this was true?  Next they&rsquo;ll be telling me that pizza dough causes brain tumors&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> A FoxNews story reveals that <a href=\"http:\/\/foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,51186,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">the cancer scare is a bit premature<\/a>, as a human would have to eat 35,000 potato chips (about 62.5 pounds) per day for life to receive the same dose of acrylamides as the lab animals did.  Whew!  Good thing I only eat half that much fried potato product per day&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-78218304?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WHO (World Health Organization) is investigating whether potato chips and french fries cause cancer. Apparently, a study found that high levels of acrylamide, which is present in some starch-based foods, were carcinogenic in mice. I saw a news story last night that said that the levels would have to be very high to affect &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/26\/the-who-world-health-organization-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}