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This kind of corn sweeteners largely replaced natural sugar in soft drinks and processed food. In tremendous quantities, such diet of high-fructose corn syrup and refined carbohydrates leads to an augment of insulin secretion. It would result in a wearing down of the metabolic system by catabolism of elevated amount of glucose in blood. On a more sophisticated fact, there is much likelihood that such astonishing intake of high-fructose corn syrup could also bring about diabetes. Diabetes patients have typically higher risk of developing long term complications like retinal damage, kidney damage and heart failure. Worse still, complications like necrosis on feet may even require amputation. Even though diabetes is treatable, it cannot be fully cured. Since the medication cost of diabetes is extremely expensive, patients would suffer from heavy and chronic financial pressure. The prevalence of diabetes has turned epidemic. Recently, it is having an increasing trend to affect not only adult but also children at an epidemic proportion as
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In the States, cattle are fed on corn and thus be cheaply fattened before slaughter. Nonetheless, this would affect nutrition value of end products. Research suggest that, in contrary to cattle fed on grass, those fed on corn tend to have more artery-clogging saturated fat and contain less healthy substances like Omega3 fatty acid. In addition, the practice of feeding corn to cattle would also incur food safety problems. Cows, by evolution, are designed to eat grass instead of corn. However, corn is still widely used as feeding ingredient for its inexpensiveness. Corn actually does not agree with the cattle’s digestive system. It can acidify their pH-neutral tract. This thus fosters the survival and even mutation of bacteria. E-coli0157:H7, an acid resistant strain from E-coli, which is one of the numerous species of bacteria survived due to high-corn diet. E-coli0157:H7 is much more virulent and problematic than E-coli. Studies reveal that corn-fed cattle contain much more of this strain in their guts than their grass-fed counterparts. If consumers ingest such kind of contaminated beef, a large number of this strain would be able to survive in stomachs for months, causing an infection followed by acute kidney failures. In short, feeding cattle corn has profound implications on food
In the States, cattle are fed on corn and thus be cheaply fattened before slaughter. Nonetheless, this would affect nutrition value of end products. Research suggest that, in contrary to cattle fed on grass, those fed on corn tend to have more artery-clogging saturated fat and contain less healthy substances like Omega3 fatty acid. In addition, the practice of feeding corn to cattle would also incur food safety problems. Cows, by evolution, are designed to eat grass instead of corn. However, corn is still widely used as feeding ingredient for its inexpensiveness. Corn actually does not agree with the cattle’s digestive system. It can acidify their pH-neutral tract. This thus fosters the survival and even mutation of bacteria. E-coli0157:H7, an acid resistant strain from E-coli, which is one of the numerous species of bacteria survived due to high-corn diet. E-coli0157:H7 is much more virulent and problematic than E-coli. Studies reveal that corn-fed cattle contain much more of this strain in their guts than their grass-fed counterparts. If consumers ingest such kind of contaminated beef, a large number of this strain would be able to survive in stomachs for months, causing an infection followed by acute kidney failures. In short, feeding cattle corn has profound implications on food