{"id":124414,"date":"2021-06-29T09:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/6-tips-to-reduce-carcinogenic-barbecue-health-risks"},"modified":"2021-06-29T09:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:22:49","slug":"6-tips-to-reduce-carcinogenic-barbecue-health-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/6-tips-to-reduce-carcinogenic-barbecue-health-risks","title":{"rendered":"6 Tips to Reduce Carcinogenic Barbecue Health Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/6-tips-to-reduce-carcinogenic-barbecue-health-risks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Short of ceasing your grilling activity, there\u2019s no way to completely avoid AGEs, PAH, and HCA when enjoying a summer barbecue. That said, there\u2019s plenty you can do to reduce your carcinogen risk while enjoying smokey flavors over the summer.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Affiliate Disclaimer:<\/em><\/strong><em> Longevity Advice is reader-supported. When you buy something using links on our site, we may earn a few bucks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hickory and oak wood and charcoal are the scents of summer. I associate that campfire smell with fireworks, screaming with neighborhood kids while jumping through a lawn sprinkler, and Dad at the grill with a Blue Moon in hand. Barbeque is a wonderful pastime. So help me, nothing will pry it out of my red-blooded American hands, especially not on the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s a bit of a problem, as I\u2019m also pursuing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevityadvice.com\/human-life-extension\/\">human life extension<\/a>. I\u2019m not talking about the potential fire hazard that grilling is (or the associated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usfa.fema.gov\/downloads\/pdf\/statistics\/v11i1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$37 million of property damage<\/a> they cause every year). The trouble is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevityadvice.com\/detect-cancer\/\">carcinogens<\/a>. There are a lot of well-established barbecue health risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short of ceasing your grilling activity, there\u2019s no way to completely avoid AGEs, PAH, and HCA when enjoying a summer barbecue. That said, there\u2019s plenty you can do to reduce your carcinogen risk while enjoying smokey flavors over the summer. Affiliate Disclaimer: Longevity Advice is reader-supported. When you buy something using links on our site, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}