FISH and chips and other fried foods are taking yet another battering.
Last week Swedish researchers raised the alarm that fried, grilled or baked foods, such as French fries, contain unexpectedly high concentrations of acrylamide, a known carcinogen (staging.newscientistbeta.com). Now health conscious eaters face another alarm. A food researcher in Cyprus is warning that food fried in vegetable oil may clot your blood and clog up arteries.
Ioannis Patrikios of the Cypriot government’s Institute of Neurology and Genetics was shocked to find human red blood cells clotting after he’d mixed them in a test tube with a range of…
