Mark Thorson wrote:
> Skip the peanut butter, and it would much more healthful.
> Peanut butter has more aflatoxins than whole or in-shell
> peanuts (so-called "table peanuts"), because it often
> includes peanuts from batches that have been downgraded
> for toxin-producing mold (segregation 3 peanuts) which
> are then cleaned and regraded. This is completely legal.
>
> Here's an interesting table from
> http://zoology.muohio.edu/oris/ZOO46...s/15b_462.html
>
> Note that conditions which present multiple risks
> are called out separately -- for example, the risk
> from black lung disease and the risk of an accident
> are listed separately for the condition of living in
> a coal mine. Although the benzopyrene risk is
> cited for charcoal broiled steaks, the risk from
> polyaromatic hydrocarbons and polyamines from
> the same steaks is not included in the table.
>
> Note where eating peanut butter is in this list.
> Frankly, I'd rather eat the charcoal broiled steak
> (except that I stopped eating beef three years ago
> due to questions about the occurrence of variant CJD
> in the U.S. and the evasive and extraordinary response
> of the Centers for Disease Control and U.S. Public Health
> Service with regard to my FOIA request and its appeal).
>
> Table 12. Risks which increase chance of death by 0.000001
>
> Smoking 1.4 cigarettes -- Cancer, heart disease
> Drinking ½ litre of wine -- Cirrhosis of the liver
> Spending 1 hour in a coal mine -- Black lung disease
> Spending 3 hours in a coal mine -- Accident
> Living 2 days in New York or Boston -- Air pollution
> Travelling 5 minutes by canoe -- Accident
> Travelling 10 miles by bicycle -- Accident
> Travelling 300 miles by car -- Accident
> Flying 1000 miles by jet -- Accident
> Flying 6000 miles by jet -- Cancer caused by
> cosmic radiation
> Living 2 months in Denver on vacation from
> New York -- Cancer caused by cosmic radiation
> Living 2 months in average stone or brick building
> -- Cancer caused by natural radioactivity
> One chest X-ray taken in a good hospital -- Cancer
> caused by radiation
> Living 2 months with a cigarette smoker -- Cancer,
> heart disease
> Eating 40 tablespoons of peanut butter -- Liver
> cancer caused by aflatoxin B
> Drinking Miami drinking-water for 1 year -- Cancer
> caused by chloroform
> Drinking 30 12 oz. cans of diet soda -- Cancer
> caused by saccharin
> Living 5 years at site boundary of a typical nuclear
> power plant in the open -- Cancer caused by radiation
> Drinking 1000 24 oz. soft drinks from recently banned
> plastic bottles -- Cancer from acrylonitrile monomer
> Living 20 years near PVC plant -- Cancer caused by
> vinyl chloride (1976 standard)
> Living 150 years within 20 miles of a nuclear power
> plant -- Cancer caused by radiation
> Eating 100 charcoal broiled steaks -- Cancer from
> benzopyrene
> Risk of accident by living within 5 miles of a nuclear
> reactor for 50 years -- Cancer caused by radiation

Interesting. I have wondered about that peanut butter. I wonder
whether ANY manufacturers take special pains to use better-quality
peanuts? Is the PB you grind yourself in the store any better?
Or is the only good way to buy the peanuts and then grind them at
home?

--
Jean B.