When carbs attack!

[sophiaserpentia]

First it was acrylamide in potato chips and french fries... now it's diacetyl in popcorn. From johns_weight:

Microwave popcorn chemicals under scrutiny: Vapors may be linked to lung disease in factory workers

The Environmental Protection Agency is studying the chemicals released into the air when a bag of microwave popcorn is popped or opened.

Exposure to vapors from butter flavoring in microwave popcorn has been linked to a rare lung disease contracted by factory workers in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has said it suspects the chemical diacetyl caused the illnesses.

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Yep... I never cared for that artificial butter flavoring anyway.

Whenever I hear about something like this, it makes me think of this entry I wrote a long time ago:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sophiaserpentia/22206.html

"And the archons took him [Adam] and placed him in paradise. And they said to him, 'Eat, that is at leisure,' for their luxury is bitter and their beauty is depraved. And their luxury is deception and their trees are godlessness and their fruit is deadly poison and their promise is death." -- from the Secret Book of John, Nag Hammadi codex 4