Our lives are surrounded by a cancer-triggering substances. There formalin, borax, and other chemical substances, various compounds in food, various pollutants and more. Recognize that substances and avoid its use, for our long-lasting healthy.
Carelessness and ignorance are often endanger our own health. Already know that formaldehyde is a preservative corpses, desperate people still wear them, preserve soy milk, accelerate the drying of salted fish and so forth. Dignakan also dye clothes for mempercerah appearance wet clams, shrimp paste, and various kinds of snacks. While borax is used for food preservatives such as noodles, meatballs, and crackers. “Let chewy, Mas,” said meatball seller at a market in South Jakarta to SENIOR.
In the formalin contained formaldehyde in water, which according to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, United States, serves as a disinfectant (penyuci or pest control).
This material should be used for industrial plastics, foam, resin for paper, carpet, textile, paint and furniture. This substance is highly irritating and can cause burns, even deadly.
Borax is also an antibacterial and antifungal material commonly used for matters outside of the body. This material is usually used for industrial wood preservative on the toilet and antiseptic products.
Can we imagine if the material enters the body, then spread through the blood vessels. The organs of the body would be poisoned and especially kidney and liver must work extra hard. As a result, these organs can be damaged. Fuss again, the body’s cells mutating due to foreign compounds and cancer emerged.
It took a long time
Research on the effects of mutagens and carcinogens (cause cancer), various chemical substances added to foods that have been ongoing since 1949 in the United States proves, about 98 percent of mutagens are also carcinogenic compounds.
Now indeed roam compounds trigger cell mutations or mutagenic compounds that could turn into cancer cells in the food we eat, but not cell mutations as fast as imagined. Therefore, no occur cancer symptoms in an instant. Prof. Ali Khomsan professor IPB Family Nutrition Programs, said that the cancer is growing very slowly in the human body. We need at least 5-10 years after a person exposed to carcinogens (cancer-triggering).
Changing the genetic nature of a cell caused by the changes, the molecular structure, or sequence of nucleotides that make up genes or mutations are occur once in a million occurrence. In addition take a long time, according to Dr. Asrul Harsal, Sp, PD-KHOM, from Dharmais Cancer Hospital, the cause was cancer are complex. Most cancers arise due to external environmental conditions such as cigarette smoke, air pollution, ultraviolet rays, pesticides and other contaminants. Therefore, Prof. firm, Ali, was to indicate whether a substance causes cancer is not easy. Need to experiment on animals first, at least until two-three years. Only then, can we be sure that these substances cause cancer.
However, it could be on certain animals such substances cause cancer, while the other animals do not. Similarly, in humans. Not necessarily in animals a substance causes cancer, then in humans by itself will lead to similar conditions.
For example, acrylamide compounds which can be found in potato chips, cereals, dried bread (food is processed with high temperature). Based on animal studies, acrylamide can be categorized as a cause of cancer. But the research results to researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, published in the British, Journak edition of Cancer Tuesday, January 28, 2003, there has been no valid fata showing that acrylamide in foods has the potential to trigger cancer in humans, even if consumed in large quantities.
Rancidity
Although several additional compounds that do not necessarily cause cancer to humans, Prof. Ali suggested that we should remain cautious with the potential karsinogennya. We also need to recognize it because of the long-term consumption still harm the body.
Several cancer-triggering compounds could arise because it is added to foods, such as borax and formaldehyde case, should we also must be vigilant because the cancer-triggering compounds can be contained naturally in foods. Various natural cancer-triggering compounds which we are aware of such worthy hydrazine in fungi (mushroom, mushroom, etc.). Also on champignon mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) or fungus kancung agaritine containing 300 mg or 4-hydroxymethylphenylhydrazine per 100 gram.
In the process metabolsime, agaritine transformed into diazonium derivative and is highly carcinogenic. In a trial, agaritine of 400 nanograms per 100 grams can cause 30 percent of gastric tumors in mice. On the green potatoes contain glikoalkaloid, there are two compounds that bersifaat carcinogens, namely solanine and chaconine. Both these compounds cause the potatoes to be poisonous. We do not know is the emergence of hydrogen peroxide (H202), generated by Quinon and some phenol precursors of apples, bananas, toast and other foods that have been colored brown because it was too long kept. This resulted in the occurrence of oxides of fat in cell membranes and cause DNA damage. Contamination of other mutagens that often arise when the old food is not used is a compound aflatoxin. These compounds arise from food contaminated with a fungus Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus, and free fatty acid oxidation results in fat (or mixed with certain fungi). The signs of the emergence of this compound is rancid ash, for example in maize, peanuts, cheese, seasonings pecel and peanut butter. If you have this, remove all the food, do not ever eat them. Some types of fungi that produce toxins karsiogenik usually brightly colored, blue or red. The smell was oppressive.
Natural course
It may be that there are many other foods that contain carcinogenic compounds, according to Jus’at Idrus Programme MSc, Ph, D, Head of Nutrition Science Program, University of Indonesia Esa Unggul, avoid processed foods (which was packed) was the best step to reduce the risk of exposure to substances trigger cancer. You can mengasup simple foods that are processed and prepared himself if want to be healthy. Consumption of natural ingredients such as vegetables and fruits need to be copied. Penglahan most simple and very good, ie, boiling less darilima minutes without any additional. “That’s the safest step,” said Idrus. Although it seems no favors, vegetables have a sense that could help improve appetite. Squash for example, if only boiled without any additional, sweet.
Another step that can be taken is to avoid high fat foods such as meat. Our bodies are basically designed to enjoy vegetables and fruit, meat bukang. Evident from the length of our intestines. Carnivorous animals have a shorter intestine than humans. Just as important, should avoid foods berpengawet, berpewarna, and perpenguat taste. All that is easy to find on instant food and other packaged foods. “Consumption of natural foods, more healthful,” he said.
