Posted by bleauberry on January 24, 2014, at 7:48:01
In reply to Re: Psychiatric Diet » bleauberry, posted by SLS on January 23, 2014, at 15:21:00
Non-gmo stands for non genetically modified.
Grains are genetically changed in the lab to produce plants that grow larger yields and have built-in pest control. They are poisonous enough to repel and kill insects. We eat that same stuff all the time. The guilty one is usually corn. It's in everything. One of the problems with corn syrup.
The amount of badness we eat in corn is miniscule and generally assumed by establishment to not be of harm. This I believe is dangerously wrong assumption based on limited or nonexistent evidence. That's because anecdotally there are so many patients who have discovered their symptoms improve and their health is generally better, when they avoid genetically modified grains and instead buy the ones that specify non-gmo on the package.
There was a magazine article I read about a corn plantation in south america where hundreds of field workers came down with mysterious debilitating symptoms resembling the flu, lyme, arthritis, and other stuff. Some of them died.
As it turned out, the major portion of their diet was corn, since it was readily available and free. When the owner suspected the gmo corn, and switched to regular corn the next season, the diseases disappeared. The third season, unable to afford the more expensive non-gmo seeds, workers got sick again.
This is fairly well known already amongst anyone who is a health buff or dealing with a chronic illness. I estimate it will be about 3 to 5 years from now the medical community will be more aware of this. At the moment I believe they have only seen hints or rumors of it. We are still early in the discovering process on this topic. All we really know at this time is that people can and are made sicker by genetically modified corn and grains.
Science is lagging. My prediction would be that since the whole genetically modified thing is seen as an achievement by scientists, they will do everything possible to downplay the reports of ill effects.
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> - Scott
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