How to Make Grilled Meat Safer

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Leonid Kim MD

Cooking food at high heat, like grilling or frying, creates chemicals that can damage your DNA and lead to cancer.

When you grill meat, chemicals called PAHs can form from the smoke and flames. Eating these chemicals might raise your chances of getting cancer.

You can make grilled meat safer by cutting off burnt parts, stopping fat from dripping and burning, using marinades with vinegar or lemon juice, or picking leaner meat to reduce harmful chemicals.

Certain things like how you cook, what kind of meat you use, and what you add to it can lower the amount of harmful chemicals that form when you barbecue.