On Thu, January 29, 2009 3:01 pm, Mark Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:51 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, corn in and of itself is the first genetically engineered food, >> and it sustained many millions of people over the course several >> thousand years. I'm not sure that actual corn is to blame rather than >> the highly processed and refine crap they make out of it. > > The processing certainly doesn't make it better, but, in fact, corn > does look (through the currently fashionable dietary looking glass) as > though it is intrinsically unhealthy.
Well, unhealthy is relative. The cultures which originally thrived on corn were otherwise significantly malnourished - in fact, it took an extremely long time for corn to domesticate into its current form, so even saying those cultures were sustained on corn begs for clarification on what is corn - even a thousand years ago it had very little nutritional similarity to modern corn, so they had very little chance to get obese on it - not only were they very limited in their food sources besides corn, but the corn was not as potent. It's quite possible the mix of modern, high-potent corn, and the rich food supply full of tons of other stuff, is not good for us... the fact that other cultures 1000 years ago didn't get obese from it is not really comparable. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
