- and even if you use what may be safe natural ingredients, the cooking processes creates conditions much like may be used in a chemical plant, new harmful compounds may be created, such as formation of acrylamide and glutaraldehyde in starchy food prepared with polyunsaturated oils, nitrosamine , HCA, and PAH formed from grilling meat.

Of course when something very commonly eaten and popular, like the bacon/processed meat example above in the thread, gets singled out because there's extremely good evidence that consuming it causes disease, people will bury their heads in the sand and continue to eat it anyway.  Einstein apparently used to go out and collect discarded cigarette butts from the street to smoke when his Dr confiscated his pipe.