Health Artificial butter flavoring ingredient linked to key Alzheimer’s disease process

[tom_mai78101]

A new study raises concern about chronic exposure of workers in industry to a food flavoring ingredient used to produce the distinctive buttery flavor and aroma of microwave popcorn, margarines, snack foods, candy, baked goods, pet foods and other products.

It found evidence that the ingredient, diacetyl (DA), intensifies the damaging effects of an abnormal brain protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease. The study appears in ACS’ journal Chemical Research in Toxicology.

Robert Vince and colleagues Swati More and Ashish Vartak explain that DA has been the focus of much research recently because it is linked to respiratory and other problems in workers at microwave popcorn and food-flavoring factories. DA gives microwave popcorn its distinctive buttery taste and aroma. DA also forms naturally in fermented beverages such as beer, and gives some chardonnay wines a buttery taste.

Vince’s team realized that DA has an architecture similar to a substance that makes beta-amyloid proteins clump together in the brain — clumping being a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. So they tested whether DA also could clump those proteins.

Artificial butter flavoring ingredient linked to key Alzheimer's disease process - ScienceBlog.com

A new study raises concern about chronic exposure of workers in industry to a food flavoring ingredient used to produce the distinctive buttery flavor and

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[FireCat]

Artificial food is BAD For You! lol

 

[KaerfNomekop]

Not if it's artificially made to be purely what your body needs.

 

[FireCat]

Not if it's artificially made to be purely what your body needs.

Why?

 

[KaerfNomekop]

If it was made artificially to be nothing bad for you, then how can it be bad for you?

 

[FireCat]

Well, I asked first, so you have to answer me first. LOL

 

[Slapshot136]

If it was made artificially to be nothing bad for you, then how can it be bad for you?

look at all medicines/vaccines and their side effects - they are manufactured to be good for you, yet they do cause harm - they just supposedly do more good than they cause harm, sometimes because of imperfect manufacturing, other times they just weren't designed well enough, but most of the time there is a tradeoff somewhere and being nothing bad for you is lost for something else

 

[KaerfNomekop]

Those medicines/vaccines weren't meant to be purely good for you; they're meant to fix existing problems. That doesn't mean that they won't cause more problems, it just means they're supposed to remove some that you have now.

 

[FireCat]

it just means they're supposed to remove some that you have now.

Yeah well, "there's no guarantee" that it will work anyway.

 

[Fatmankev]

Firecat, your comments on this page have hit an all-time low. Don't comment if you don't have anything to say, man.

 

[FireCat]

Eh? I did had something to say, so I did. But I still want have an answer.
Anyway.. Medicine/vaccines It doesn't always fix everything, It can harm you more than ever.
Like I said "there's no guarantee" And it can be filled with synthetic whatever rubbish thing.

BTW Artificial food are not healthy, there are"loaded with sugar and other stuff thats not natural" naturally food have less sugar, more fiber, and a more balanced diet. Artificial butter and other kind of Artificial food Is Just tons of crap.

 

[KaerfNomekop]

Artificial foods are different from natural foods. Those minor differences could mean life or death for someone who's allergic to a minor component that's found in natural food but not artificial food.

 

[FireCat]

Those minor differences could mean life or death for someone who's allergic to a minor component that's found in natural food but not artificial food.

Or vice versa.

Well, Artificial Food are made in a lab with chemicals derived from petroleum, a crude oil product, which also happens to be used in gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt, and tar.
Does this sound yummy?

Btw: Don't forget the issues with artificial food colorings.

 

[Nyph]

Well, Artificial Food are made in a lab with chemicals derived from petroleum, a crude oil product, which also happens to be used in gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt, and tar.
Does this sound yummy?.

Sounds yummier than eating plants and animals which have spent millions of years adapting various poisons to deter predators.
Oh wait, you mentioned "chemicals" oh shit, everyone panic, there is chemicals in our food! Also, made in a lab! Only toxic things come from labs!

 

[FireCat]

Anyway: Hmm

Reports last week that researchers could be just six months away from producing the world’s first artificial meat, using thousands of stem cells bred in a laboratory, sent a wave of fascination around the world. Yet there is an even more ghoulish prospect ahead: the idea of eating artificial food made from humans.

This may sound like science fiction, yet a new technique for making gelatin from human DNA is attracting “increasing interest from research and industrial circles”, according to a new study by scientists from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. The paper, published recently in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, revealed that successful experiments had been carried out in which human genes were inserted into a strain of yeast to “grow” large amounts of recombinant (genetically engineered) human gelatin

 

[KaerfNomekop]

Finally, some good ideas.

 

[FireCat]

Nah I don't agree with you @KaerfNomekop. The idea is so far beyond stupid "it may even qualify as criminal act"

 

[KaerfNomekop]

How is it criminal? You're not taking a life, you're not even using a corpse. You're simply using human cells.

 

[Nyph]

How is it criminal? You're not taking a life, you're not even using a corpse. You're simply using human cells.

FireCat is so far beyond stupid he may even qualify as a criminal?

 

[Slapshot136]

Those medicines/vaccines weren't meant to be purely good for you; they're meant to fix existing problems. That doesn't mean that they won't cause more problems, it just means they're supposed to remove some that you have now.

ok, so they weren't made to be purely good for you, there was some sort of trade-off at some point - is it even possible to create something purely good for you? and even if it is, it would have to be specific to each individual, would it not? thus making it extremely expensive