I recently headed out to the supermarket; check the labels on about 15 to 20 products. All the products contained some sort of corn sweetener ingredient. Corn is being fed to livestock: dairy cows, pigs, chicken and even salmon at all farms nationwide. Corn is cheaper, and less of a hassle to retrieve animals from the fields. All the available, soft drinks and juices for kids contain corn byproducts.
Industrial Corn May Be Linked to America’s Obesity Epidemic Industrial Corn May Be Linked to America’s Obesity Epidemic Imagine for a moment and picture Americans as huge walking genetically modified stalks of corn. Every corn stalk contains various ears of corn hanging as limbs. Each ear of corn is filled with abundant kernels. Each kernel filled with starch. Well, welcome to the new bodies of Americans, because it has been said “you are what you eat.” With the mass yield production of industrial corn, which has been genetically modified, corn can be found in virtually every food item in the local American grocery store.
Nevertheless, if we studied the American industry, we would find that there is one basic ingredient that seems to be in just about everything: - corn. Our food industry here in America is strongly based on corn, and as the author points out, it is used in countless forms, from being fed to livestock, to being used in processed items such as yogurt or beer. Mr. Pollan also explains just how corn came to govern the American markets and industrial food chain due to a number of factors. He also pays a visit to George Naylor’s farm in
The Fast Food Industry is responsible for obesity in America as they have many fast food restaurants typically many within a small radius providing cheap easy solutions to societies hunger. David Zinczenko, a writer for The New York Times, describes marketing powers in his assessment "Don't Blame the Eater" he states that just about all fast food restaurants falsely advertise their foods and pass to many as a "healthy" meal choice but little do people know is that they are still extremely unhealthy foods that should not be included in anybody's diet what so ever. There has been many varieties of marketing techniques developed over the years of the fast food industry's attempts to persuade others to eat at their establishments. The fact that the foods they are extremely unhealthy for people of all ages from kids to adults is helping to cause obesity throughout America although some may be aware of the risks the average American still continues to eat out at fast food establishments along with the family giving the fast food industry a chance to get the entire family hooked for life. Going to fast food restaurants to prove his theory about how horrible fast food restaurants are for the human body.
Even though popular demand for corn is dated back to the Mayan era, Pollan answers this question when he states, “A great many of the health and environmental problems created by our food system owe to our oversimplify nature’s complexities, at both the growing and eating ends of our food chain” (6). Through scientific studies we have found ways in which we can manipulate corn into becoming a byproduct or base for practically anything. This then means that when its molecules are broken down, additives are created, such as fructose corn syrup, and it is then infused into food, and drinks. This is what he means by the eating end of the spectrum. As for the growing end of the spectrum, Pollan then goes on to say that “It (corn) had to adapt itself not just to humans but to their machines” (30).
These problems can be fixed by doing some things like restrictions, monitoring, and SNAP rules and regulations be revised. First off, food stamps allows more people to become obese. Food stamps does not have any guide lines on nutrition. This means that families can by unhealthy foods like cookies, donuts, and soda. Also food stamp participants can use there food stamps to buy food from McDonald's.
The article, "The battle against fast food begins in the home" by Daniel Weintraub, explains how people are blaming McDonalds and other fast food restaurants such as Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Starbucks, and Pizza Hut for their obesity. The author disagrees with the blaming that people are doing. I also disagree. People are blaming and sueing the fast food restaurants for the decision they have made of being unhealthy. They are making comments such as, "The problem of obesity is so staggering, so out of control, that we have to do something."
It is rare for people with peanut allergy to react to other legumes, but many react to tree nuts e.g. brazil or hazel nuts. Reactions to peanuts can be life threatening. Once diagnosed it is important that nuts and all sources of nuts are excluded from the diet at all times unless your allergy specialist has said otherwise. Always check labels and avoid any foods you are unsure about, ALWAYS ask a chef when eating out.
Genetically modified organisms are the forefront of scientifically modified crops in the food industry today. Genetically modified means organisms that has had it genetic makeup altered using genetic engineering. This type of genetic engineering has mixed response with the food industry and people who are involved in sustainable development, meaning there are people who think that it is the forefront for the next generation and there are also people who think that it is the worst thing to do for our generation. In today’s society there is many different views on the matter especially when it involves the big chain supermarkets such as Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Waitrose, Marks and Spencer’s etc. Big supermarkets like Tesco, Waitrose has expressed that GM crops are banned in their supermarkets due to their customers wanting the purest products available on the market therefore their customers will not buy their products if they sell GM products.
Of the eighty million acres of corn in the United States only about 380,000 acres of it is sweet corn. The world’s population is around seven billion. 5) Field corn, also called dent corn, is used to make many foodstuffs. Examples of these are cereals, tortillas, cornmeal, and cornbread. Field corn is used to make High Fructose corn syrup, which is found in many different, often unhealthy, foods such as soda and icecream.