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Feature articles on corn:

The Biofuels Scam, Food Shortages and the Coming Collapse of the Human Population

4/23/2008 - (NaturalNews) It was one of the dumbest "green" ideas ever proposed: Convert millions of acres of cropland into fields for growing ethanol from corn, then burn fossil fuels to harvest the ethanol, expending more energy to extract the fuel than you get...

Review: Organic Food Bar Offers Exclusive Discount to Natural News Readers on Their Best Food Bars

4/22/2008 - (NaturalNews) I recently met with Dr. Jack Singh, founder and president of the Organic Food Bar company, for an interview. I've been a fan of the organic food bar products for many years, and I even reviewed their original food bar several years ago...

Understanding the Transition From Seed Corn to Biofuels

3/21/2008 - (NaturalNews) We are about to witness and experience the greatest sustained rise in grain prices seen in the last 30 years. This rise will include wheat, rice, and maize; these three comprising over 90% of all grains cultivated on the planet. Let’s do...

High-fructose corn syrup, high fat diet cause severe liver damage

3/13/2008 - (NaturalNews) A diet high in fat and in high fructose corn syrup may cause severe liver problems in people with a sedentary lifestyle, according to a study conducted by researchers from Saint Louis University and presented this year at the Digestive Diseases...

Finding Happiness the Natural Way

3/6/2008 - (NaturalNews) In a blue funk. Apathetic. High-strung. Premenstrual woman from hell. Enervated. Grouchy. Spacey. Turning on the waterworks for no real reason. Swinging from repressed fear to rage like an angst-ridden green monster. Do any of these describe...

Green Tea Nutrient EGCG Blocks Diabetes-Promoting Effects of High Fructose Corn Syrup

2/19/2008 - (NaturalNews) While new research suggests that beverages containing high fructose corn syrup may increase a person's risk of contracting diabetes, the same study has also found evidence that a chemical in tea vastly counterbalances the cell-damaging effect...

New Research Links High Fructose Corn Syrup to Diabetes in Children

1/30/2008 - (NaturalNews) Consuming beverages containing high fructose corn syrup may increase the risk of developing diabetes, particularly among children, according to research presented at the 234th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society. Researchers...

The Truth About Honeybees Provide Clues to Their Disappearance

1/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) Honeybees are disappearing. Searching for likely causes leads us to find out about adulterated honey, poison in beehives and other shocking realities that few of us recognize. By now you’ve probably heard of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)....

Stevia: The FDA's Attack on a Beneficial Supplement

11/14/2007 - (NaturalNews) Let's be honest for a moment. There's no question that over the years I've tweaked the FDA, Canadian, and European regulators for some of the outrageously absurd positions they've taken when it comes to alternative health and supplements....

The greenwashing of toxic consumer products

11/12/2007 - Have you noticed over the last year how virtually every large corporation is trying to make consumers believe their products are "Earth friendly?" Everything from toxic cosmetics to smog-producing cars are now being positioned as "green" products, and...

Surprise Ingredients in Fast Food

11/3/2007 - (NaturalNews) The movie Supersize Me has probably had more of an effect than the producers anticipated. Since then, in the fast food industry, there has been a market trend promoting menu items that appear to be healthy. But most of these menu items have...

Halloween sugar, food additives and the commercialization of holidays

10/30/2007 - This year at the annual sugar-and-food-additives fest for children called "Halloween," I think parents should skip the middle step of handing out candy and just hand out Ritalin directly to the kids. I say this in jest, of course, since I am adamantly...

Innovative dried aloe vera gel product now available from Good Cause Wellness

9/6/2007 - This article introduces a significant new natural health product that has never before existed in the marketplace. It's made of aloe vera, an herb with strong anti-cancer properties that also treats gum disease, high blood sugar, high blood pressure,...

Boom in corn planting as farmers enjoy price spike due to ethanol demand

8/15/2007 - (NaturalNews) Spurred by an explosion in the market for ethanol and the concurrent spike in corn prices, U.S. farmers are planting corn over the largest area since 1944, according to a survey conducted by the Department of Agriculture. Based on the...

After peak oil: Will America survive?

7/21/2007 - (NaturalNews) As public awareness about peak oil continues to grow, and even the big oil companies like Exxon Mobil Corp. are now starting to admit that the future supply of oil looks troublesome (see this Boston Globe article), there's an increasing...

Monsanto's GM corn MON863 shows kidney, liver toxicity in animal studies

4/10/2007 - A variety of genetically modified corn that was approved for human consumption in 2006 caused signs of liver and kidney toxicity as well as hormonal changes in rats in a study performed by researchers from the independent Committee for Independent Research...

Termites may hold the answer to cheap, efficient ethanol fuel production

3/28/2007 - Scientists and several companies are currently experimenting with using termites to convert wood, corn stalks and other plant waste into ethanol in an effective and economic way. The hope is that through the study of a termite's unique digestive processes...

Ethanol demand spikes U.S. corn prices

1/19/2007 - (NaturalNews) The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced last week that the price of corn was at a 10-year high, after crop-damaging droughts left worldwide supplies short as ethanol fuel and livestock feed demands increased. Corn prices have...

7UP drops "all natural" claim after CSPI threatens lawsuit

1/17/2007 - (NaturalNews) Cadbury-Schweppes announced last week that it would stop marketing its lemon-lime 7UP soda -- which contains high-fructose corn syrup -- as "All Natural," after consumer watchdog Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) threatened...

Fast-Growing Trees Could Take Root as Future Energy Source (press release)

10/16/2006 - A tree that can reach 90 feet in six years and be grown as a row crop on fallow farmland could represent a major replacement for fossil fuels. Purdue University researchers...

Global grain supplies plummet to 25-year low due to severe drought

10/13/2006 - (NaturalNews) On Thursday, the USDA lowered the amount it forecasted for global wheat and corn production due in part to a severe drought in Australia, which will put levels of world wheat stockpiles at their lowest in more than 25 years. According...

Pigments in corn, squash and other vegetables may help protect against age-related vision loss (press release)

10/10/2006 - Women younger than age 75 years who eat diets rich in the yellow plant pigments lutein and zeaxanthin may have a reduced risk of developing the eye disease age-related macular degeneration, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Ophthalmology,...

Many "natural" foods contain questionable taste additives like yeast extract

9/14/2006 - The food industry is always trying to come up with a new way to add chemical taste enhancers to their foods without alerting the consumers. They used to rely heavily on MSG (monosodium glutamate), but when the public began to learn about the dangers...

Researchers identify energy gains and environmental impacts of corn ethanol and soybean biodiesel (press release)

9/12/2006 - The first comprehensive analysis of the full life cycles of soybean biodiesel and corn grain ethanol shows that biodiesel has much less of an impact on the environment and a much higher net energy benefit than corn ethanol, but that neither can do much...

Crops being engineered for biofuels production, but ecological concerns persist

9/11/2006 - (NaturalNews) Biofuels are just one renewable energy source being considered as the price of fossil fuels continues to soar, but a group of scientists has taken the idea one step further by developing genetically engineered crops for use as biofuels. The...

Corn supply crisis looms as demand outstrips growing capacity

8/14/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to analysts for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, America's third-largest corn crop ever -- 10.98 billion bushels -- is expected this Fall, but U.S. demand for the corn is threatening to outstrip supply. The expected demand...

How to build a pharmaceutical factory in your back yard and grow your medicine for free

1/24/2006 - I have just completed construction on a massive pharmaceutical factory in my own back yard. I'm not making this up. This is absolutely true. Right now, this factory is turning out pharmaceuticals that prevent prostate cancer, nervous system degeneration,...

Interview: Ricardo Ayerza on the healing nutrition of chia seeds

12/4/2005 - Mike:I'm here today with Ricardo Ayerza, an advisor to the Omega Tree. Ayerza: That's right. We are advising people where to find good seeds, and, of course, our main job is to advise the grower on how to produce the seeds. Mike: And for the readers...

Interview with Dr. Gabriel Cousens, raw foods pioneer and founder of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center

11/29/2005 - Mike: Thank you, Dr. Gabriel Cousens, for taking the time to participate in this interview. You have a tremendous amount of valuable information on health and life transformation to share with people. In addition to being the founder of the Tree of Life...

Taste inflation revealed: why sugar, salt and fragrance make you stupid

10/18/2005 - America is a nation that suffers from "taste inflation." Virtually all prepared foods in this country, whether they're restaurant foods or convenience foods, are made with such outrageous levels of salt, sugar and MSG that they can only be called extreme...

Sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and type II diabetes

7/7/2005 - Sugar and refined carbohydrates are undeniably linked to diabetes. Researchers around the world have come to the conclusion that the consumption of refined sugar is detrimental to the health of people without diabetes and disastrous for those with it....

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