2. Grilled food

When meat is cooked at high temperatures, amino acids react with creatine to form heterocyclic amines, which are believed to cause cancer. Grilling is double trouble as it also exposes food to cancer-causing chemicals contained in smoke from burning coals.

Grilled lamb from a stall. [Photo/IC]

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