06....But Not The Year

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06....But Not The Year

JoAnn Guest

Aug 30, 2006 14:56 PDT

 

 

06....But Not The Year

 

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Omega-6 is a plentiful polyunsaturated fatty acid that is important

for brain and overall health. It is found in most terrestrial plants

and animals that eat those plants.

 

What has happened lately is that corn has been grown in immense

quantities and is being fed to our cows, chickens and

pigs and is ultimately being saturated through the

industrial refining process.

 

Ironically the excess of corn is ruining American health and even

causing starvation elsewhere in Mexico.

 

The human brain has a 1:1 ratio of Omega-3 to Omega-6, however, our

diet is at least 20:1 in favor of Omega-6.

 

We have been seduced by agribusinesses into eating a single plant

(corn) that has been rendered and processed into thousands of foods

from corn flakes,

starches, sweeteners, resins, glues, meats, dairy products, soft

drinks, fruit juices, hydrogenated oils and other items of trans

fats.

 

As the price of corn goes down, the farmer must cultivate more

acreage at the expense of other crops; therefore, we end up with a

monoculture of food because other products are displaced. Add the

nitrogen as fertilizer and pesticides that come along with this gift

and the soils are depleted and the run off contaminates streams and

rivers.

 

Ultimately the excess corn is fed to ruminants and other animals who

are used to eating grass. They often get sick, require antibiotics

which becomes spread in their flesh and effluent. (pasture fed

animals have less saturated fat and more Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty

acids than the items served at fast food chains).

 

Obesity and diabetes are a natural outcome of the outpouring of

corn-related products.

 

This corn production has been sponsored by the federal government,

paid for by you and me, and is bankrupting the farmer.

 

The Aztecs worship corn but we are making an even greater sacrifice

to it.

 

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JoAnn Guest

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