Monday, March 20, 2017
Help with the Corn
My topic is about how the government subsidizing crops specifically corn is leading to obesity and other health problems throughout the population. The US government pours billions of dollars into producing crops, which leads to an already overwhelming surplus of the crop. You can find traces of corn in most of the food you consume from most sweets that contain some kind of sweetener derived from corn. The meats you eat are basically made from corn, because that's what they feed to livestock even though their body's weren't made to eat corn. The oil you cook with is also derived from corn, it's really hard to escape this subsidized crop. What I hope to find through the research is how all this corn is affecting us humans that consume enormous amounts of it without really being conscious of it. What our body does to break down the corn and how it uses it throughout our body or maybe it doesn't. My research is falling short on things about how the body reacts to consuming corn and how it digests it and what it does with it does it store it as a fat things along those lines. I need help finding honestly just more articles, videos, or reports about subsidizing corn and how corn affects people, I'm willing to use anything that may help. Have you ever read the back of a something you eat and look at the ingredients in it? If you have, read the back and find which ingredient has originated from corn. Most of the snacks, sweets, beverages, meats, breads, and much more have something that came from corn.
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http://time.com/4393109/food-subsidies-obesity/
ReplyDeleteThis article talks about how the government usually subsidizes unhealthy food, and how that affects the people with lower incomes who buy the cheaper food. I'm not sure if this is what you wanted but here you go!
About your questions, I almost always look at the ingredients list when eating something packaged, and it's truly sad to see high fructose corn syrup as the first ingredient in the thing your consuming. I don't know why they even but corn syrup in bread? Bread isn't supposed to be sweet. It's really off putting, but once I came across a website listing a bunch of food that has no high fructose corn syrup whatsoever, and that was interesting to see.