Well, there are two issues here- one definitional issue and one health issue.
According to the dictionary high heat open flame cooking can indeed be barbecue- and in the West it's pretty much the only kind of barbecue. No matter how much people from the South love their other kinds of barbecue, grilling, according to the dictionary, is barbecuing. That soppy meat in the red sauces probably causes cancer as well, but perhaps not the same kinds. The cancer in question with the blackened meat was prostate, but if the slow cooked barbecue has smoke flavoring in it, then it also would be carcinogenic, and of course all meat is implicated in colon cancer.
If you want to be really healthy, you minimize the red meats and carbs, eat almost no sugar, eat very little meat in general of all kinds, lots of fruits and veggies (without pesticides), and drink plenty of clean filtered water.
We know what the best diets are, everything else is just about what you can get away with before your diet causes you a serious chronic disease, or kills you. And it's fine to try to get away with eating badly, but with all the really tasty good for you foods out there, I'm not sure I see the point. |
