Even if families don’t sit down to eat together as frequently as before, millions of Britons will nonetheless have got a share this weekend of one of that nation s great traditions:the Sunday roast. 【B1】___a cold winter’s day, few culinary pleasures can 【B2】___it. Yet as we report now.

The food police are determined our health. That this 【B3】___should be rendered yet another quality pleasure 【B4】to damage our health. The Food Standards Authority (FSA) has 【B5】____ a public worming about the risks of a compound called acrylamide that forms in some foods cooked 【B6】___high temperatures. This means that people should 【B7】___ crisping their roast potatoes, reject thin- crust pizzas and only【B8】___toast their bread. But where is the evidence to support such alarmist advice? 【B9】___ studies have shown that acrylamide can cause neurological damage in mice, there is no 【B10】______ evidence that it causes cancer in humans.

Scientists say the compound is 【B11】___to cause cancer but have no hard scientific proof 【B12】the precautionary principle it could be argued that it is 【B13】to follow the FSA advice. 【B14】, it was rumoured that smoking caused cancer for years before the evidence was found to prove a 【B15】___.

Doubtless a piece of boiled beef can always be 【B16】______ up on Sunday alongside some steamed vegetables, without the Yorkshire pudding and no wine. But would life be worth living? 【B17】___, the FSA says it is not telling people to cut out roast foods 【B18】, but reduce their lifetime intake. However its 【B19】risks coming a cross as being pushy and overprotective. Constant health scares just 【B20】___ with one listening.

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