Word: corns
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...food pyramid with a reduction of calories and an increase in exercise. They aren't getting many book contracts. "Most Americans don't eat enough fruits and vegetables, and now you have diets like Atkins that say don't eat sweet potatoes, don't eat carrots, don't eat corn," says Franca Alphin, administrative director of the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center. "Those foods are so beneficial. It's really frustrating." The low-carb diets, they insist, eventually fail. "The more unusual a diet is, the more different from the standard of what people normally eat and find around...
PHILOSOPHY Cut out the carbs (no more than 20g a day, or what's found in one corn muffin) so you burn off your stored...
...battle over genetically engineered "frankenfoods" that has taken Europe by storm in recent months appears to be headed across the Atlantic. After a Cornell researcher reported in May that genetically altered corn crops were killing off the monarch butterfly, now comes an article in a top British medical journal, The Lancet, that links modified potatoes to intestinal problems in lab rats. Although the article is accompanied by an editor's note describing the findings as "preliminary" and cautions that they should not be used to make generalizations about genetically modified (GM) crops, they are being seized upon...
...that renders seeds sterile after the plant has ended its growth cycle. The boys down in the Monsanto accounting department saw this as an ingenious way to protect the company's investment by forcing farmers to buy new bags of their super-productive seeds ? such as the bioengineered Bt corn ? instead of planting seeds culled from the previous year's crop...
...tariff on some E.U. food exports. Coming in the midst of such a catfight, the GM ban looks like vengeance as much as prudence. What's more, if Europe is so worried about GM foods, why is it growing them? France produces its own small crop of GM corn and uses more of the stuff than any other country in Europe...