After watching the documentary "King Corn", how do you think the corn industry is related to the following trends in obesity.
United States Obesity Rate: 30.6%
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity
The number of obese and overweight children has now climbed to 30% in 30 states
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/hscout/2009/07/01/hscout628636.html
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The people who grow the corn wont even eat it because of all of the chemicals they put in them making them very unhealthy
ReplyDeletethe corn they are growing is very fattening in large amounts, and by feeding the corn to livestock and using them in other foods, the animals and manufactured products become high fattening. Even a healthy diet would mean consuming food containing high fat corn
ReplyDeleteI think obesity is a problem because of corn, mainly because corn is in most of the food we eat and it can be very fatening.
ReplyDeleteEveryone eats corn everyday. Its part of a lifestyle. For example, your hair is made out of corn. Most likely the burgers you eat, is corn-fed beef.
ReplyDeleteI think the reason America is such an obese nation is because of all the corn that is in everything we eat. In the video, they talked about how corn is fed to cows strickly to fatten them up and has no nuitrional value to it at all. They are then slautered and made into the beef that we eat. For example cornfed beef burgers are 65% fat, and you could have grass fed beef burgers but they would be more expensive, and america is all about getting things cheaper, not nesassarily better.
ReplyDeleteYou can even see the effects of corn in the cows that are feed a corn diet.....they're really fat! And then, we humans eat the beef from those cows. Its no wonder obesity has become such a problem.
ReplyDeletethe cows that are fed with grass have very little fat in their steaks, but corn fed cows have 9.6% fat in their steak. so dont eat steak or youll get fat.
ReplyDeletethe people who gro the corn know that what they are doing is so bad for you that they wont even eat it!
ReplyDeleteI dont think that there is one product in the school that does not have a corn produce in it.
ReplyDeleteI think that the the corn industy is related to the American obesity trend beacuse corn is almost everything we eat, from corn syrup, to even cornfed beef. The corn is fed to the cows to make them bigger faster, whenevery thing we eat, there for makeing americans bigger faster.
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