Theblessed:

Yes, that's absolutely correct! It can and not only tongue cancer but all sorts of cancers due to the Carbon content in the food. 

Smoked foods are toxic and carcinogenic therefore, people should be careful especially, those with history (i.e. hereditary) of ca. in their family. This is because, carbon can easily reactivate or trigger dormant ca cells in their bodies thereby causing this horrible disease.

Hope people understand and, try to keep away from such foods especially when there's a history in your family. We know it's tough/difficult to do when most of our foods are smoked based e.g. smoked dry fish/crayfish, smoked bush meat, smoke yams/plantains, goat meat (burnt skin), cow legs, kpomo, suya etc but for your life, you have to try and keep away from them as there are other satisfying foods one could eat.

davidylan:

lol the problem with smoked foods is not the carbon content (afterall all your amino acids and sugars in your body are made up of a carbon-backbone!) but the oxygen and lipid radicals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons like dioxins which can induce genetic changes or cause the production of more toxic metabolites in the body.

@ topic . . . this professor needs to be taken to task. What is luciferin? Is he aware this is NOT FOUND in the body or smoked foods but in fireflies or some dinoflagellates and is simply a substance oxidized by luciferase enzymes to produce oxyluciferin and light?

davidylan:

lol the problem with smoked foods is not the carbon content (afterall all your amino acids and sugars in your body are made up of a carbon-backbone!) but the oxygen and lipid radicals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons like dioxins which can induce genetic changes or cause the production of more toxic metabolites in the body.

@ topic . . . this professor needs to be taken to task. What is luciferin? Is he aware this is NOT FOUND in the body or smoked foods but in fireflies or some dinoflagellates and is simply a substance oxidized by luciferase enzymes to produce oxyluciferin and light?

Jarus:

Are you sure this can also not cause cancer of the eyes

chuqudy:

People need to be aware of the reasons why many young people die early these days. Cancer cases are on the increase. Smoked foods, fried foods, junk food all are bad to health. They are the major causes of colon cancer. Colon cancer is the number one killer disease in the world today. 95 percent of deaths in the world today are as a result of colon cancer. So, run away from smoked, fried, roasted, baked, salted foods.

chuqudy:

People need to be aware of the reasons why many young people die early these days. Cancer cases are on the increase. Smoked foods, fried foods, junk food all are bad to health. They are the major causes of colon cancer. Colon cancer is the number one killer disease in the world today. 95 percent of deaths in the world today are as a result of colon cancer. So, run away from smoked, fried, roasted, baked, salted foods.

ElRazur:


I think you need to slow down on your claims. Any food technically can be said to be toxic as your body have to rid of it waste via your kidney. So on that note all food can be labelled as Toxin. Yes, smoked food can be carcinogenic - have potentials to cause cancer - but there are other factors one have to take into consideration. Even a genetic predisposition do not necessarily mean that one will have a full blown cancer.

Carbon? Activate cancer cells? Lol You are one funny dude.  Cancers have several factors, and not all the time do just one of them triggers it. In fact, most cancer are a result of combined factors from environment, immune system, stress, down to toxins in the water we drink that get accumulated over the years. (Abi you go scare people not to drink water again?)

Also it may be worth that a few races are just "almost resistant" to things that cause cancer in others. So while our diet may be composed of smoked foods, we may not be susceptible to it due to generation of forefathers eating same diet. Just a thought.


On balance, you are right, these smoked foods are carcinogenic.

Exactly what I was thinking Cheesy Smoked turkey all the way!