Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Some tribes referred to corn as "giver of life." Today corn is still a popular grain; it is eaten on its own and is used to make corn oil, cornmeal, polenta, popcorn, corn syrup, and a multitude of other food products.
Other Uses
Corn silk can be added to smoking mixtures for its mildly sweet flavor. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Ethanol from corn is so energy inefficient that it takes almost exactly one barrel of oil from somewhere else to farm, harvest, process and produce one barrel of oil equivalent energy from corn. In other words, it's just a massive U.S. energy shell game with absolutely no net gain in energy production, but a huge net loss in food production. corn prices are already skyrocketing because of the ramp up in ethanol production from corn.
The only people promoting ethanol production from corn are corn farmers, politicians or complete idiots. Some people are all three. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| Today corn is still a popular grain; it is eaten on its own and is used to make corn oil, cornmeal, polenta, popcorn, corn syrup, and a multitude of other food products.
Other Uses
Corn silk can be added to smoking mixtures for its mildly sweet flavor. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But the American settlers, not understanding how to prepare corn, would simply grind up their corn and consume it as corn flour (corn meal). By the way, that's how most people eat corn today: as ground up cornmeal ingredients in chips and foods.
In more modern times, we know very well about what happens when you're deficient in folic acid and you are a pregnant woman: your baby may be born with serious spinal cord defects or even be stillborn. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In other words, people who work for the corn Refiners Association are insisting that high-fructose corn syrup doesn't promote diabetes. And yet, here we have research that followed 50,000 nurses showing an 80% increased risk of type 2 diabetes when people consumed either sugar or high-fructose corn syrup. And not in huge doses, by the way, all it took was one soft drink or one fruit drink a day to boost this risk of diabetes.
To make all this more interesting, we also have a person from the Harvard School of Public Health named Walter C. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Similarly, whole grain corn is a healthful, nutritious food. But when you refined that corn and extract the sugars to make high-fructose corn syrup, you now have a blatantly unnatural ingredient that contributes to obesity and type-II diabetes. Yet the corn associations insist that high-fructose corn syrup is "all natural" because it comes from a plant.
The point is that a food manufacturer can take anything that occurs somewhere in nature and refine it to increase the potency by a factor of 1000 times or more, and then claim that their product is "all natural. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Corn prices are already skyrocketing because of the ramp up in ethanol production from corn.
The only people promoting ethanol production from corn are corn farmers, politicians or complete idiots. Some people are all three.
But let's face it: Consumers like to buy products that they think are "green" in some way, even if the green-ness of those products is highly exaggerated or even entirely fictitious. Why? Because it removes their guilt for driving SUVs, eating meat products and spraying pesticides on their lawns. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A muffin was once actually a muffin, and corn bread once tasted sort of like corn. Today, muffins are just cake in the shape of muffins, and corn bread is just corn-flavored cake. Even our bagels don't taste like bagels anymore; they're just bagel-shaped cake. And what do I mean by cake? I mean a bread-based product loaded with sugar and white flour. When it comes to bagels, you also get some hydrogenated oils in there, just to make sure your cardiovascular health takes a beating, too.
Everywhere you go, you're inundated with these salts and sugars. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Eating whole leaf aloe would be like eating whole-plant corn: The stalk, the husk, the cob... everything! But you don't want the whole corn plant, you only want the corn kernels, right? With aloe vera, you only want the inner gel.
How to get this low-temperature dried aloe vera gel
Right now, the only company I know of that's offering this product is Good Cause Wellness (www.GoodCauseWellness.com) which also donates 10% of sales to natural health causes and non-profits. Alan Friedman, the founder of GCW, has just launched this line of 100% aloe vera gel flakes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I've already mentioned some of these healing foods, like corn silk. Most people buy corn and then throw away the corn silk, thinking, "Oh well, that's not going to be any good. It's just garbage. I'll throw it away." Keep it instead, and boil the corn silk and drink that tea. That's what American Indians did. They knew how to use plants medicinally, whether they were plants from the desert, plains, forest or mountains. They knew what plants to look for in their local region and how to use them to encourage a healing response. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| A muffin was once actually a muffin, and corn bread once tasted sort of like corn. Today, muffins are just cake in the shape of muffins, and corn bread is just corn-flavored cake. Even our bagels don't taste like bagels anymore; they're just bagel-shaped cake. And what do I mean by cake? I mean a bread-based product loaded with sugar and white flour. When it comes to bagels, you also get some hydrogenated oils in there, just to make sure your cardiovascular health takes a beating, too.
Everywhere you go, you're inundated with these salts and sugars. |
Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier
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 Note: corn germ oil is obtained from the embryos of the corn fruits (kernels). According to [4], corn germ oil is more economical than wheat germ oil. It is produced in large amounts since the oil content of corn is about 5 % higher and the embryo makes up a greater weight portion of the whole kernel. The total fatty acids consist mostly of linoleic-and oleic acids. The unsaponifiable fraction of corn oil constitutes about 1—3% of the total oil content with three isomeric sitosterins and dihydrositosterin as the main components.
Literature
[1] Hager 4th ed., vol. 6, 550-552 (1979).
[2] R. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| But when you refined that corn and extract the sugars to make high-fructose corn syrup, you now have a blatantly unnatural ingredient that contributes to obesity and type-II diabetes. Yet the corn associations insist that high-fructose corn syrup is "all natural" because it comes from a plant.
The point is that a food manufacturer can take anything that occurs somewhere in nature and refine it to increase the potency by a factor of 1000 times or more, and then claim that their product is "all natural. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So it's really no surprise that there are some doctors on the payroll of the corn Refiners Association who are going to stand up and deny that high-fructose corn syrup causes diabetes in the same way that tobacco executives deny nicotine is addictive. |
| Now, there may be extremely rare people like that, and maybe the corn Refiners Association can find one or two such people, but by and large, the average person doesn't have anything close to that sort of physiology.
Saying that high-fructose corn syrup causes diabetes and obesity takes about as much of a leap of faith as saying one plus one equals two. This is well proven. Heck, we even have doctors from Yale University Center backing this study and saying, yep, this is an obvious conclusion. |
| What is the corn Refiners Association afraid of happening here? They're afraid that all of the anti high-fructose corn syrup research and information is going to turn this ingredient into the next big tobacco debate. They're afraid that junk food companies and fast-food companies (and especially soft drink manufacturers) are going to be blamed for the nation's obesity crisis in the same way big tobacco companies are blamed for lung cancer.
And it's sort of hard to tell where most doctors are going to fall on this issue. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Amazake
• Carob powder
• corn Syrup
• Dextrose
• High fructose corn syrup
• Maple syrup
Molasses
Processed Fructose Sorbitol Sucrose Turbinado White Sugar
PIP YOU KNOW. . . ONE OF THE MANY STEPS FOR REFINING SUGAR INCLUOES BLEACHING (TO OBTAIN THAT *PURE* WHITE COLOR) WITH ANIMAL CHARCOAL FROM OEGREASED COW BONES?
Fig. Ill
In 1957, Dr. William Coda Martin offered the following definition of a poison. "Medically: Any substance applied to the body, ingested or developed within the body, which causes or may cause disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Virtually ALL of the Halloween candy being given away to children on this bizarre holiday is made of these three primary ingredients:
SUGAR (sucrose, corn syrup or high-fructose corn syrup)
COLOR (chemical food coloring additives, including the ones that cause ADHD)
FLAVOR (artificial chemical flavors)
Slap a blob of this nutritious mixture into a plastic wrapper, stamp a fun-looking logo on the outside, and you've got candy!
If you want to manufacture a different kind of candy, simply change the chemicals you're using to have a "bubble gum" flavor or a "tangy" color. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The only people promoting ethanol production from corn are corn farmers, politicians or complete idiots. Some people are all three.
But let's face it: Consumers like to buy products that they think are "green" in some way, even if the green-ness of those products is highly exaggerated or even entirely fictitious. Why? Because it removes their guilt for driving SUVs, eating meat products and spraying pesticides on their lawns. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 The average American now consumes over 100 pounds of sucrose and 40 pounds of corn syrup each year. This sugar addiction probably plays a major role in the high prevalence of poor health and chronic disease in the United States.
Research in the past three decades has provided an ever-increasing amount of new information on the role that both refined carbohydrates (sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and low-fiber starchy foods) and faulty blood sugar control play in many disease processes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Liers: Vitamin C actually is extracted and produced from corn, from potatoes -- some people say sago palm, but there are probably not enough sago palms in the world for all those people who make those claims -- beets are another one. So mostly, it is potatoes, beets, and corn and at different times of the year, it is made differently. A fermentation process goes on. It is crystallized and recrystallized so that the material we use is pharmaceutical grade vitamin C.
To start with, it is 99.93 percent pure ascorbic acid, with maybe a few minerals. |
Erich Grotewold
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 Feeding responses of the corn ear worm larvae
(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on corn silks of varying flavone content, J Econ Entomol 89: 1040-1044. Wisman, E., Hartmann, U., Sagasser, M., Baumann, E., Palme, K., Hahlbrock, K., Saedler, H. and
Weisshaar, B., 1998, Knock-out mutants from an En-1 mutagenized Arabidopsis thaliana population generate phenylpropanoid biosynthesis phenotypes, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95: 12432-12437. Xie, D. Y., Sharma, S. B., Paiva, N. L., Ferreira, D. and Dixon, R. A. |
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