Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Facts about corns:

In the article, The consumer, of republic of fat. Richie, Chevat, and Michael Pollan. Are arguing the effect of corn in our diet is negative.
Why do we have so much corn? First “in 1970s this was, of course, the same decade that American embraced a cheap food farm policy”. This cause the over production of corn is being encouraged.
In what way do corns help the country? Corn’s help the country because it is cheat corn can make a lot of thing and it helps the farmer. And also use corns as a good source for many nutrients many people eat corns because most American can afford it, even though corn can make a lot of thing but since 1980s people have been consumed more high-fructose corn syrup for the first time in history. Almost everything we eat have corn for example soda are made of corn, burger made of corn, there are hundreds of things we can do with corn. They can use corn to make everything from chicken nuggets and big Macs to emulsifiers and nutraceuticals.
Where do you think those corn go? “Corn account for most of the surplus calorie we are growing and most of the surplus calorie we are eating It goes to all of food and drink, that’s why we have so many cheat thing for example burger, soda, chicken nuggets big Macs ,etc because all of them has sugar in fact. Since 1985 our consumption of all added sugar cane, beet, HFCS, glucose, honey maple syrup, whatever has climbed from 128 pounds to 158 pounds per person.
How does it affect us? The corn affects our weigh make us get fat, deaf early, diabetes, high cholesterol, and “The president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheat corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest”.

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