fried food

We know french fries are bad for our waistlines, but now the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants us to know that there's another reason to cut back on them - a chemical called acrylamide, which forms in foods cooked at a very high temperature and which has been linked to cancer in animal…

The South is called the Stroke Belt because its residents are more likely to have a stroke than are people in other parts of the country. And now University of Alabama researchers think they know why: It's all that fried chicken, bacon, ham, pies and sweet tea.

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