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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | Diacetyl, a chemical that gives foods a buttery taste, has been linked to a rare, irreversible lung disease. One of the most common foods using this ingredient is microwave popcorn. Bronchiolitis obliterans, a devastating disease that destroys the small airways in the lungs, has been linked to diacetyl.
There has been a public health debate that has reached Congress and has resulted in tens of millions of dollars to settle lawsuits. Although some microwave popcorn companies may eliminate diacetyl, Congress and the flavoring industry are assessing the danger and deciding on what steps, if any, should be implemented. The Bush administration, along with some business groups, alleges that there is not enough scientific evidence to warrant pressing government limits and intervention.
This lung disease was first noticed in a small but alarming number of people who worked in microwave popcorn plants across the nation. But it may go beyond workers since a man who ate microwave popcorn daily for several years developed the same disease found in factory workers.
My advice...make popcorn the old fashioned way. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | I used to eat that microwave crud but when I read about this some years ago, I went and purchased a small, used, old fashioned popcorn popper, the kind they have in Theaters. It makes excellent popcorn and I use real butter  . | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: June 9, 2007 |  Posts: 1,208 |
| | Posted: | | | | Anyone recommend a popcorn maker? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Then again, literally everything has been linked cancer these days. | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 844 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hmmm, the Canadian Tire near me has an air popper selling for $18. I think I may wander over and pick one up. |
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| Registered: April 8, 2007 | | Posts: 1,057 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hi Guys, Check out: SnopesPerhaps not taking a 'big hit' from the just removed bag ( or Gas mask, or something like bob9000's avatar) will keep us safe. Take Care Rico | | | If I felt any better I'd be sick!
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Rico: Quote:
Hi Guys,
Check out: Snopes
Perhaps not taking a 'big hit' from the just removed bag ( or Gas mask, or something like bob9000's avatar) will keep us safe.
Take Care
Rico Cool web site Rico; thank you! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,217 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bob9000: Quote:
Hmmm, the Canadian Tire near me has an air popper selling for $18. I think I may wander over and pick one up. Stay away from those hot air thingies ... the popcorn is almost impossible to sugar (or to salt as you barbarians do  ) so it's very healthy, but also very boring. I bought a machine like this a while back and the popcorn it makes is really great. Something similar should be available in the US or Canada. cya, Mithi | | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 793 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mithi: Quote:
I bought a machine like this a while back and the popcorn it makes is really great. Something similar should be available in the US or Canada.
cya, Mithi I have something like that, and I really like the fact it doubles as the bowl  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is what I use. It was a Christmas present from my wife. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: March 17, 2007 | | Posts: 175 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
This is what I use. It was a Christmas present from my wife. Nice wife. Sounds like a keeper.  | | | | Gotta nip it in the bud, Andy! |
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| Registered: June 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,208 |
| | Posted: | | | | So no-one reccommends the hot air poppers? |
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting MarEll: Quote:
So no-one reccommends the hot air poppers? Hot air poppers are all right. I like mine made in a big pan & popped in a little hot oil. Of course then you have add butter & salt. |
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| Registered: March 16, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 943 |
| | Posted: | | | | Try some of these: CLICK HEREWe use a hot air popper I bought second hand many moons ago. It's a Black & Decker HP-50 | | | Just in from somewhere left of the middle of nowhere
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | If yer gonna have popcorn, have popcorn!
Pop it in coconut oil, use real butter and salt it with popcorn-granule salt.
Or why bother with air-popped, non-buttered, lite salt fluff? That ain't popcorn... | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kathy: Quote:
Diacetyl, a chemical that gives foods a buttery taste, has been linked to a rare, irreversible lung disease. One of the most common foods using this ingredient is microwave popcorn. Bronchiolitis obliterans, a devastating disease that destroys the small airways in the lungs, has been linked to diacetyl.
There has been a public health debate that has reached Congress and has resulted in tens of millions of dollars to settle lawsuits. Although some microwave popcorn companies may eliminate diacetyl, Congress and the flavoring industry are assessing the danger and deciding on what steps, if any, should be implemented. The Bush administration, along with some business groups, alleges that there is not enough scientific evidence to warrant pressing government limits and intervention.
This lung disease was first noticed in a small but alarming number of people who worked in microwave popcorn plants across the nation. But it may go beyond workers since a man who ate microwave popcorn daily for several years developed the same disease found in factory workers.
My advice...make popcorn the old fashioned way. I understand the guy who ate popcorn daily, had a thing with the smell of microwave popcorn and would stick head in the bag to get the maximum effect It wasn't that he liked the popcorn so much as the aroma. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
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