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Summer cookout tips to help you avoid cancer

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Summer cookout tips to help you avoid cancer

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Grilling red meat, poultry and fish can create cancer-causing carcinogens called heterocyclic amines, also called HCAs. Robin Miller, MD, explains how you can reduce your risk of HCAs.

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