{"id":3641,"date":"2010-08-03T05:12:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T10:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2021-09-12T10:09:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T15:09:30","slug":"you-are-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/you-are-corn","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You Are Corn&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since you\u2019ll never find the film King Corn in theatres, I strongly urge you to rent this important independent documentary (netflix has it here). It certainly was an eye opener for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d always known that high fructose corn syrup is bad for us, but King Corn reassured me the problem was actually much worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.netflix.com\/Movie\/King_Corn\/70080822?strkid=1709467108_0_0\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>King Corn follows two friends who become interested in corn when they learn from a food scientist that because they\u2019ve been unknowingly eating so many corn-derived products, they themselves are now largely corn. The scientist performs a hair analysis on one of them and says something like, \u201cYes, you are corn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the friends\u2019 surprise, each of their great grandfathers had farmed corn in the same Iowa county decades ago, so they head to the Midwest, where they rent a single acre of a corn field, grow corn, and follow their crop\u2019s travels after the harvest. Along the way, we all learn a great deal about America\u2019s single largest agricultural commodity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s some of the cheerless data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Most of our immense government-subsidized corn crop is inedible to humans, used mainly for animal feed and to make high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).<\/li><li>Corn-fed beef is the fattiest and least nutritious. A visual comparison between corn-fed and grass-fed beef makes you squirm. Plus, corn is so bad for cattle that one rancher remarks: it\u2019s a good thing we slaughter them&#8211;they\u2019d be dead from this diet in six months anyway. The food scientist reminds us that a hamburger is just a \u201cslab of grilled fat,\u201d as the protagonists nervously chow down a bacon cheeseburger.<\/li><li>The original species of corn grown in the US (from Mexico) was a rich protein source and actually good for us. The corn currently grown is a high-glycemic (read: sugary) simple carbohydrate with minimal nutritional value.<\/li><li>Because we have so much corn and because HFCS is so cheap to make, it\u2019s replaced cane sugar as our sweetener. Food manufacturers use it in bizarre ways (to \u201cbrown\u201d a loaf of bread or sweeten cole slaw).<\/li><li>If you shop the aisles of a grocery store (as opposed to the healthier outside ring), it\u2019s hard to find products <em>without<\/em> HFCS.<\/li><li>It\u2019s our soaring intake of high fructose corn syrup that\u2019s likely responsible for our epidemics of obesity and diabetes. HFCS actually tricks the body into storing more fat.<\/li><li>If you think ethanol is a good idea, the film shows that the amount of overall work needed to produce ethanol from corn ends up actually burning more energy sources than it creates.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Your best bet? Eliminate HFCS from your life. The single largest source is sweetened drinks, including soft drinks and sweetened fruit drinks. I must admit it was a real challenge for me to find even a breakfast cereal without any sweetener&#8211;the two were shredded wheat and puffed rice. (Homemade oatmeal remains one of your best choices.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re a beef eater, stick to grass-fed beef. It runs a bit more, but you can offset the extra cost by reducing the amount you eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/\/Users\/paulrubin\/Library\/Caches\/TemporaryItems\/moz-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/\/Users\/paulrubin\/Library\/Caches\/TemporaryItems\/moz-screenshot-1.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/\/Users\/paulrubin\/Library\/Caches\/TemporaryItems\/moz-screenshot-2.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/\/Users\/paulrubin\/Library\/Caches\/TemporaryItems\/moz-screenshot-3.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since you\u2019ll never find the film King Corn in theatres, I strongly urge you to rent this important independent documentary (netflix has it here). 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