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This really depressed me.  One of my favorite foods is one of the three you should never eat, according to a new study . It's microwave popcorn.  Apparently, there's some chemical in it that causes respiratory problems, along with other distressing illnesses.  " Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) lines the popcorn bag and is part of a class of compounds that may be linked to infertility in humans,  according to a UCLA study . In animal testing, the chemicals caused liver, testicular and pancreatic cancer – and once the popcorn is microwaved, the chemicals can get into the popcorn," yahoo.com reports.  But it's the fumes from the bag that are most toxic.  A man who loved to inhale the steam rising from the bag after popping the stuff developed a rare but serious lung condition -- after doing it twice a day for 20 years!  He even earned a new disease name -- " popcorn lung ," according to the Huffington Post.   Supposedly, if you don't inhale ...

So now we know.   Air pollution does cause cancer.  At least, in China and other rapidly developing countries like Addis Ababa, where the fumes from bulldozers to minibuses creating all this growth daily "pump out black plumes" according to Tyler Falk of smartplanet.com. And these plumes -- the outdoor air pollution that "plagues urban areas from Ethiopia to China -- are causing lung cancer. The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has officially labeled outdoor air pollution as a leading cause of cancer [PDF] after reviewing 1,000 scientific papers on the subject from five continents," writes Falk. And it kills 223,000 people a year, who die from lung cancer as a result of breathing in the polluted air. “The air we breathe has become polluted with a mixture of cancer-causing substances,” Falk quotes Kurt Straif, head of IARC's Monographs Section. “We now know that outdoor air pollution is not only a major risk to ...