Topic: Weird Shit
Researchers from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha have discovered a link between hot dog consumption and altered DNA in people, which could lead to a strange form of cancer. Specifically, colon cancer, which we kind of expected, since everytime we've eaten more than one hot dog, our colon has felt like a train was smashing through it.
Scientists believed this link to be valid even before the study because of the preservative sodium nitrate which is used in high quantities in the weiners and can also contain N-nitroso compounds that have been a direct cause of cancer in lab rats.
However, the scientists still aren't going to conclude that eating hot dogs will turn you into some sort of strange cancer-ridding freak who lumbers across the Earth looking for brains or something. They're just saying their could be a link. So good news for Nathan's, which can continue to hold their annual July 4th hot dog eating competition. We wouldn't want to take away from those fine athletes or anything...
