There is acrylamide in biscuits, crackers, potato chips, breakfast cereals.....and many others. Potato chips is almost the national dish of Belgians. I have never heard there were more PWPs in Belgium... Maryse cg John 73,13 > Hi! > I have raised this question before. > The recent finding is that acrylamide (a highly neurotoxic chemical) is > formed when we bake or cook potato in high heat. For some reason, people > thought that this might cause cancer. I understand that a recent study > has given the good news - "this does not cause cancer in humans". But, > nobody seems to worry about the neurotoxic effect of potato chips as a > possible causative agent of PD. > Anyway, I have stopped eating french fries until some study finds out > about its effect on the nervous sysem. > Raj > [log in to unmask] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn