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Does eating burnt food increase your risk of cancer? does overcooking food with oil in turn into hydrogenated fat?
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Possibly: There is a fair amount of research on overcooking of meat and correlation with cancer, in particular colon cancer. You can search for such articles on www.pubmed.org but one example of a review article is: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/100/Supplement_1/386S.long Sorry I cannot answer your other question.
Answered 7/9/2015
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