Corn's scheme for world domination. A cure for human arrogance

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Permalink Reply by Clement Rhein on May 23, 2008 at 9:59pm

That's real interesting stuff. I shall talk to the ministre de l'agriculture about that :-)

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Permalink Reply by Ronan O'Brien on May 23, 2008 at 11:27pm

Michael Pollen also recently gave a talk at Google where he talked about his current book - "In Defense of Food". It's a great talk with an audience Q&A ~40 minutes in.

A couple of pieces of advice in the book..

Don't eat anything your great grandmother would not recognise as food
Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot
Don't eat anything with more than 5 ingredients
Eat real food - fresh, local, organic
Food that is most perishable is probably most nutritious
Don't eat too much e.g French paradox - smaller plates in france
Eat until you are 80% full rather than respond to external events to indicate stopping
Health is a by product of healthy eating

Good advice I think.. rules out most modern heavily processed foods with the dozens of chemicals in them!

Here's the talk:

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Permalink Reply by Adam Greer on May 24, 2008 at 9:33am

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2007/1969924.htm

Heres a really interesting transcript of a talk by a researcher called Robert Lustig in USA abuot the Corn industry, and how it all came to be the way it is, but also about the impact of fructose-corn syrup on health today, and some surprising information about the impact on of fruit sugars from juices and other fibreless refined foods. Its pretty shocking stuff.

Enjoy.

Take care

Adam x

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Permalink Reply by Adam Greer on May 27, 2008 at 6:22pm

Oops its not totally about how the corn industry had such a big impact on the food industries. I havent read it in a while just had it bookmarked after Id initially read it. Mixed in with a book I read around that time called " Fatland-How America Became the fattest people in the world" by Greg Critser Which is about the corn industry's hold on the food industry. Its really interesting if anyone does wanna take a read, talks about the agreement that was signed over a century ago with the US govt. to always buy corn no matter how much was being produced. Hence the fructose-corn syrup introduction. Also links its introduction with the explosion of obesity, since it doubles the caloric intake of the consumer.

Take Care

Adam x

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Permalink Reply by Ronan O'Brien on October 20, 2008 at 9:44pm

Michael Pollan has an interview on American NPR this week - Food As A National Security Issue

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