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Since we're pretty slow....
how about another HTT?
DH and I watched a documentary, called King Corn, the other day. One of the parts that stuck with me the most is when they tested their hair. The results came back showing that their hair was composed of something like 80% corn.
Here's an article from 2007 that discusses it as well:
Some quotes from the article:
"Dawson tested a strand of my hair: 69 percent of the carbon came from corn.This may seem high, but it is typical for Americans."We're like corn chips walking because we really have a very, very large fraction of corn in our diets, and we actually can't help it because it's an additive in so many of the foods we find on the market shelves," Dawson says.""
"Europeans eat a diet with far fewer processed foods and corn-based sweeteners. Dawson tested his own hair after three months in Italy: 5 percent corn."
Wow! I find this very interesting. Thoughts? Too much corn or no big deal?
Re: Since we're pretty slow....
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lol! That's funny!
I think the corn shows up mostly as cornstarch and high fructose corn syrup. They're also using it for animal feed, so it ends up in meats too.
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Kristen - I always find your research very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I've been trying to get organic things like meat and cheese now. I'd really like to go to a farm that has grass fed beef and split a side of cow. We may do this with some family. It tastes so different...and good!
I need to be better about watching what goes in my mouth!
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well, this explains my DH's sense of humor.
(i'm sorry. i couldn't pass that one up)
Haha!
I have a question. While I personally think we should be working toward more fructose as a sweetener, rather than corn syrup or even sucrose, simply for the reduced calories, did the person conducting these studies explain why having a high corn content in hair is bad? I'm just curious whether it's really just interesting trivia or whether there's some real, identifiable negative to it.
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That's awesome! I can definitely taste a difference in the beefs as well as the chickens also.
mlveynar - LOL! I love it
Larissa - For one, high fructose corn syrup is made using petroleum and other toxins. I didn't know that until the other day and don't really know what the implications of that are, but I don't imagine they can be good. HFCS is also an omega 6 fatty acid, which supposedly increases inflammation and causes other adverse health effects, unlike the good omega 3's.
The bigger negative to it, though, is that most US corn is genetically modified to include the bt toxin (which makes the corn a pesticide in itself), which ends up supposedly getting "stuck" in our gut and there's no way of getting it out.
Here's an article that was just released that explains it better than I can:
http://www.stopagingnow.com/liveinthenow/article/a-scary-side-effect-of-eating-gmo-foods
And some quotes from the article:
"GMO's are causing terrible genetic changes in mammal offspring. Scientists are seeing birth defects, high infant mortality rates, and sterility in hamsters, rats, and livestock fed GMO soy and corn, and some hamster pups even begin growing hair inside their mouths."
"Bt toxins inserted into GM food crops to kill pests are reaching the bloodstreams of 93% of women and 80% of unborn babies because of the consumption of meat, milk, and eggs from livestock fed GE corn. This could turn bacteria in our intestines into pesticide factories."
"Allergies have skyrocketed in the US, and with the introduction of GE soy in the UK, soy related allergies rose to 50%."
This is pretty new info to me. I've only been researching this stuff over the past few months, but I find it completely fascinating.
ITA.
Meghann- LOL!!!!
I really need to do a better job at ensuring our family doesn't buy this crap. I do pretty well when I am grocery shopping, but getting MH to do the same is a different story.
That all makes sense. When they just say "corn," it makes you wonder what the problem is, if there is one. When you're talking about additives, that's a whole 'nother issue.
Personally, I like the movement of making plastics from corn. Keep the farmers going, don't hurt us with the results.
E & I have been growing some veggies ourselves, and the first thing I noticed about the cucumbers was the lack of wax. I honestly had never thought about whether that was man-added or just the nature of a cuke skin. Turns out, it's added to preserve the cukes. (1) Gross. (2) You can't wash it off, which means it's shutting the pesticides in with the cucumbers. Uck. No wonder my mother always peeled our cukes.
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PCOS and Endo
Ovarian drilling and endo removed 1/3/12
BFP - 3/27/12
Beta's 11, 14, 57, 637, 2800
Sono showed no baby and teeny tiny sac. Waiting to M/C naturally.
I didn't realize about the vegetable waxes either until recently, but a lot of them are made from GMO soy, so we have to be especially careful in our house. Soy is a whole other story though and also sneaks it's way into everything. I had to throw out some of our vitamins and medicines, as our vegetable oil. We've since switched from vegetable to Safflower oil, which is pretty cheap and supposed to be really healthy for you also. I found out about that oil because non GMO companies, like Kettle chips, use it.
PCOS and Endo
Ovarian drilling and endo removed 1/3/12
BFP - 3/27/12
Beta's 11, 14, 57, 637, 2800
Sono showed no baby and teeny tiny sac. Waiting to M/C naturally.
Ok, good. I thought EVOO was supposed to be good but now it's kind of like - who do I trust?
my tom's/mozz was very yummy:)
PCOS and Endo
Ovarian drilling and endo removed 1/3/12
BFP - 3/27/12
Beta's 11, 14, 57, 637, 2800
Sono showed no baby and teeny tiny sac. Waiting to M/C naturally.