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#104774 - 09/06/07 12:34 AM popcorn butter smell cause lung illness !
picard120 Offline
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Registered: 07/10/05
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Recent medical study found people who eat frequent microwave popcorn suffer from lung disease due to the butter chemical, diaceytl.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070904/health/health_popcorn_lung_consumer

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#104784 - 09/06/07 02:05 AM Re: popcorn butter smell cause lung illness ! [Re: picard120]
xbanker Offline
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Registered: 04/21/05
Posts: 484
Loc: Anthem, AZ USA
When I first read the headlines on Google News this morning, thought for sure I'd be giving up yet another vice. But was heartened to read this on the AP newsfeed:

"Microwave popcorn fans worried about the potential for lung disease from butter flavoring fumes should know this: The sole reported case of the disease in a non-factory worker involves a man who popped the corn every day and inhaled from the bag [emphasis mine].

"He really liked microwave popcorn. He made two or three bags every day for 10 years," said William Allstetter, a spokesman for National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver where the man's respiratory illness was diagnosed.

"He told us he liked the smell of popcorn, so he would open and inhale from freshly popped bags," Allstetter said. And the patient said he did this for a decade.

This fact from popcorn.org: Americans consume 17 billion quarts of popped popcorn annually or 54 quarts per man, woman and child. So after the ten years this guy gorged himself on popcorn, the folks who consumed the other nearly-200 billion quarts are apparently doing OK. I wish half the things I ate came with those kinds of odds.

You sniff/snort anything three times a day for ten years, you're likely to get sick.

Believe our medical- and health-related resources and "policing" are better utilized elsewhere ... say E. coli and produce (yeah, I still buy and eat produce).

Full Disclosure: No popcorn industry affiliation of any kind, unless you count the 32-pack of Redenbacher's Movie Theater Butter microwave popcorn I bought at Costco today. smile
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#104791 - 09/06/07 02:53 AM Re: popcorn butter smell cause lung illness ! [Re: picard120]
OldBaldGuy Offline
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You pound enough of anything down the throat (or other orifice) of a lab rat, or couch potato, it will make him sick. Next someone is gonna say that too much sex is bad for you....
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#104793 - 09/06/07 03:16 AM Re: popcorn butter smell cause lung illness ! [Re: picard120]
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Hey Ironraven, I won this bet.

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#104802 - 09/06/07 09:13 AM Re: popcorn butter smell cause lung illness ! [Re: Blast]
ScouterMan Offline
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Registered: 08/19/07
Posts: 65
Loc: Massachusetts, USA
A totally shameless plug, but the Boy Scouts are staring their annual Trails End popcorn sales. This is the only microwave popcorn that doesn't use this chemical. They actually use butter (go figure), so keep an eye open for your local scouts if you're interested.

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#104813 - 09/06/07 02:00 PM Re: popcorn butter smell cause lung illness ! [Re: picard120]
AROTC Offline
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Stove popped tastes so much better anyway. With fine grained salt and real butter (maybe a few spices or finely grated cheese), makes my mouth water just thinking about it. Can't wait until I'm free this evening.
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#104816 - 09/06/07 02:13 PM Re: popcorn butter smell cause lung illness ! [Re: OldBaldGuy]
GarlyDog Offline
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Registered: 04/05/07
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Loc: The People's Republic of IL
Originally Posted By: OldBaldGuy
Next someone is gonna say that too much sex is bad for you....


It's tough, but you get used to it.
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#104825 - 09/06/07 03:37 PM Re: popcorn butter smell cause lung illness ! [Re: GarlyDog]
MichaelJ07 Offline
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Registered: 12/19/06
Posts: 101
Loc: Michigan, USA
I guess you're gonna have to live til ya die, so I figure "life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body. But rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming ~ "WOO HOO what a ride!"

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#104829 - 09/06/07 03:51 PM Re: popcorn butter smell cause lung illness ! [Re: MichaelJ07]
Russ Offline
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Registered: 06/02/06
Posts: 5357
Loc: SOCAL
That's a neat quote, but eating popcorn is hardly skidding in sideways. More likely it just means that later in life instead of being really energetic and living life to the fullest, you'll already have had a minor heart attack and you'll be living life carefully in order to ensure you can enjoy that next bag of Orville Redenbacher's Kettle Korn.
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#104846 - 09/06/07 06:14 PM Re: popcorn butter smell cause lung illness ! [Re: AROTC]
GarlyDog Offline
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Registered: 04/05/07
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Originally Posted By: AROTC
Stove popped tastes so much better anyway.


Fresh from the farm....stove popped...mmmmmmm.

BTW, I remember from SCUBA training a long time back that there is a disorder you can get if your air tanks happen to get oil in them. I think it is called lipid pneumonia.

I wonder if these are related conditions... the popping oil mixed in heavy concentration in the air day after day.
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