Fear of a Corn Planet Final draft Robert Ridley Comp 2 Fear of a Corn Planet For some time now corn has been an energy source and an enemy to all of America. Unbeknownst to us it has been secretly added to everything a normal American ingests on a daily bases. Products such as Soda pop‚ Energy bars‚ Red bull energy drinks‚ and most processed foods. Though corn does have its practical applications in fuel production as well as industrial
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We are all made of corn. Take a strand of your hair. A recent study proved that if you are like the average American consumer today‚ your hair is 69% made of corn carbon. This is in contrast to the 5% of corn carbon that is in the hair of Europeans. Americans use more corn in their diet than anyone else‚ and the corn content of the American diet is partially responsible for our country’s widespread obesity and the prevalence of diabetes. America’s over-production of corn has serious consequences
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High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a fructose-glucose liquid sweetener alternative to sucrose (common table sugar) first introduced to the food and beverage industry in the 1970s. It is not meaningfully different in composition or metabolism from other fructose-glucose sweeteners like sucrose‚ honey‚ and fruit juice concentrates. HFCS was widely embraced by food formulators‚ and its use grew between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s‚ principally as a replacement for sucrose. This was primarily because
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The Sugar Ad a) The target audience at a first glance seems to be mothers who are deciding food for their children. The title of the advertisement asks‚ “Which would you rather put on your kids’ cereal?” This question is in large bold letters which is directed towards mothers because‚ generally speaking‚ mothers are often the ones to prepare meals‚ buy groceries‚ and set the table for the family. Consequently‚ mothers are more often concerned than fathers with what their children eat. However
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Before watching this movie‚ I thought corn farms would be produced through plantation agriculture since corn is usually produced in large quantities on monoculture farms‚ or intensive agriculture because farmers want more crops using less amount of land so they are able to make more profit from their harvested crops. I imagined corn farms to be hundreds‚ maybe even thousands‚ of rows of green husks stretching for miles. Once the corns were in seasons and ready to be harvested‚ there would be tractors
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Rock Solid Future From corn High- Fructose Corn Syrup is formed. High-fructose Corn syrup is now used in the products we see all over the home and grocery store. Farmers know that this is a guarantee profit for as much as they are able to distribute. Items all around us can be found to have High-Fructose Corn Syrup in them‚ from the most basic forms of food to the most complex of pesticides. Even more disturbing is how children are being affected by High-Fructose Corn Syrup while parents and professionals
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the cause and affect of the industrialized corn crop. I decided on this subject after my own battle with illness. This battle‚ ended up changing my diet‚ and my life as it turns out. I have almost completely removed any corn derived product from my life (all-be-it difficult sometimes) and am a proponent of a purely organic vegetarian diet. One Nation Under Corn? Chad Cribb DeVry University One Nation Under Corn One of the many freedoms we enjoy
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Sugar is sucrose that is extracted from sugar beets and sugarcane. Sucrose‚ or table sugar‚ is the most common added sugar‚ and is found in the form of high fructose corn syrup. Americans consume up to 60 pounds of sugar in one year‚ that is 76.7 grams of sugar per day‚ which equals 19 teaspoons or 306 calories! This number is much larger for people that eat more processed foods or drink soda beverages on a regular basis. No sugar is healthy‚ but an average amount of sugar for men‚ should be around
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define syrup as “1. any of various thick‚ sweet liquids prepared for table use from molasses‚ glucose‚ etc.‚ water‚ and often a flavoring agent. 2. any of various preparations consisting of fruit juice‚ water‚ etc.‚ boiled with sugar 3. Pharmocology. A concentrated sugar solution that contains medication or flavoring.” This means that a syrup is a sugar and a liquid (most often water but can be fruit juice). A simple syrup is water and sugar boiled together until the sugar melts. The sugar can
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At first‚ Dr. Lustig provides us the facts of sugar and obesity in our country. Fructose has increased in the past 30 years‚ coinciding with the obesity epidemic. Nowadays‚ no matter children or adults‚ we all eat more than 20 years ago. And Dr. Lustig points out that there is something wrong with our body feedback system and makes us keep eating more and more. And they are not in fat but Carbs. The secular trend in fructose keeps increasing every single year. For example‚ people consume more soft
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