news.mongabay.com — Corn meal, corn starch, hydrologized corn protein, and high fructose corn syrup fuel a multitude of products, from soft drinks to hamburgers. Of 160 food products we purchased at Wendy's throughout the United States, not 1 item could be traced back to a non-corn source.
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marksvenNov 11, 2008
If you hadn't noticed, 60% of Americans are obese and diabetes rates are skyrocketing exactly because unhealthy food is so cheap and plentiful. A lack of calories isn't exactly our biggest problem.
zenforlunchNov 11, 2008
Anyone else find it amusing one of the researchers' names is Kraft?
bobjrn2Nov 11, 2008
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mujokanNov 12, 2008
"Of 160 food products we purchased at Wendy's throughout the United States, not 1 item could be traced back to a noncorn source. Our work also identified corn feed as the overwhelming source of food for tissue growth, hence for beef and chicken meat, at fast food restaurants." The point isn't that everything is "made of corn", it's that relying so heavily on corn can have a downside in many different ways.
mujokanNov 12, 2008
Damn that Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences!
burrgrinderNov 12, 2008
It's doesn't "require" processing, it could be eaten unprocessed, it's just that since it's going to be processed anyways, they can breed/modify out qualities such as taste and texture and promote things such as growth rate and crop yield. The worst health info I've read about is that some people are allergic to the GM insecticide corn, but it's not meant for human consumption anyways."hydrogenated oils/trans-fats" are completely irrelevant but I'll indulge you, as you can hydrogenate any fatty acid, not just corn oil. Additionally, while they are a heath risk, they also have valid uses. Hydrogenated oils are much more stable and have a longer shelf life if that's important to your product, and they have a higher melting point, so you can cook at higher temperatures with them. I agree you should include their usage on your product package, but they have their purpose.Sure, approach everything with a bit of skepticism, but you're going overboard with the paranoia without really having much knowledge of the topics outside what you read in digg comments. If you feel I'm wrong, please, please, please go out and find actual peer-reviewed studies and published results to prove me wrong. It won't hurt you.
lostangelNov 12, 2008
It also allows that land that might better be used to farm something else be used for only Corn and thereby driving the price of other products up. This also has a horrible affect on third world countries where they might be better equiped to farm corn than we are, but can't offer it on the global market because ours is so heavily subsidized that no one else can compete.But we're helping third world countries and bringing democracy to the world... right?
whiledoNov 12, 2008
You seem to be unclear on how the digestive tract works. Though I suppose I can't be too surprised, based on your lack of mastery of the caps lock key.
iancgiNov 12, 2008
Yea don't blame the companies who put artificial, unnatural, and genetically modified ingredients in our food without telling us. They deserve no blame. They are only doing it to make more money off their product without having to use real ingredients.Its all the fat asses fault who cant afford organic cause their job was just shipped to china by the same company to make more profit.
cddict1Nov 13, 2008
Allergy can be from almost anything. so nothing unique or bad in this.
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greatme2Mar 4, 2009
Fast Food is very not good for health. it is Fat food.<a class="user" href="http://www.articleslide.com/articledetail.php?artid=113576&amp;catid=67&amp;title=Fast-Foods-Don't-Have-to-be-Fat-Foods">http://www.articleslide.com/articledetail.php?arti ...</a>