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Suya causes cancer, Aproko Doctor opines
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When you burn meat over open flames, it creates chemicals known as polycyclic, aromatic, hydrocarbons or heterocyclic imines. These particular compounds may get activated by certain enzymes in your body that ends up damaging your DNA. Damage to this DNA- cancer, he says.
Twitter doctor Chinonso Egemba also known as Aproko Specialist has guaranteed that perhaps Nigeria’s best delicacy Suya causes disease.
The specialist makes sense of the cycle and instruments utilized in making the bite are unhygienic and terrible for wellbeing when the meat is simmered.
Utilizing elaborate clinical wordings, he made sense of how and why the harms are caused.
He tweeted: “I know you think I’m here to remove the last piece of joy in your life but there is no easy way to do this. Suya can give you cancer.
“When you burn meat over open flames, it creates chemicals known as polycyclic, aromatic, hydrocarbons or heterocyclic imines. These particular compounds may get activated by certain enzymes in your body that ends up damaging your DNA. Damage to this DNA- cancer.”
On more secure ways of eating meat, he said: “Ensure that your meat is not cooked over open flames. You can air fry your met, or grill it in the oven when it is not over open flames.
“Remove the burnt side of the meat because they are exposed. They contain higher concentration of these compounds. Eat smaller portions of grilled meat.”
