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What Happens To Your Body When You Eat Corn Is it as healthy as some claim? We turn to the research. Caroline Thomason, RDN
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Posted on 04/08/2021 4:57:22 PM PDT by mylife

As one of America's top cereal grains, corn is sprinkled into our food system in sneaky ways. Corn has been processed into a sweetener, an oil, a flour, and is used as one of the main feeds for livestock. But if you eat corn by itself, it's still a healthy vegetable, right? While corn is continually portrayed as a healthy food to eat, there are some sneaky upsides and downsides to know if you eat corn regularly.

Here's what you need to know about what happens to your body when you eat corn, and for even more healthy tips, be sure to check out our list of The 7 Healthiest Foods to Eat Right Now.

(Excerpt) Read more at eatthis.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: corn; food; health
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To: MachIV

“For them that refuse it are few”


41 posted on 04/08/2021 6:32:42 PM PDT by Track9 (Dealing with democrats is like living without toilet paper. )
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To: freedumb2003; mylife

There is something strange about a vegetable that passes through the body unaffected.

It can’t be good. The body is politely saying “No, thank you.”


42 posted on 04/08/2021 6:37:20 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (As Patrick Henry once said, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!" Especially now.)
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To: mylife

That being said, there’s nothing more delicious than a hot ear of corn, roasted with the peels still on, with real butter and salt.

Ah, summer...


43 posted on 04/08/2021 6:40:20 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (As Patrick Henry once said, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!" Especially now.)
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To: cuban leaf

I would love to learn how to make moonshine. If you have any tips, please FReepmail me. :)


44 posted on 04/08/2021 6:41:55 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (As Patrick Henry once said, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!" Especially now.)
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To: Magic Fingers

I’m assuming only grain corn was used there for a while. And corn for people wasn’t introduced as part of the regular diet till later. We came here in ‘70 and didn’t eat it till we moved here.


45 posted on 04/08/2021 6:42:20 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Magic Fingers

Your grandparents were American not Spaniards nor in Spain.


46 posted on 04/08/2021 6:43:14 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Third Wheel

Most European countries do.

CC


47 posted on 04/08/2021 6:47:32 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: MHGinTN

Lol. A pressure cooker would have come in handy.

I think you’re the only one here that understands that food is cultural. Ie corn on the cob. It has zero to do with snobbiness. But, your story about food grade - I have a feeling that’s exactly why she didn’t eat it. She had never seen human grade corn before. By the time she came here....she wasn’t interested.


48 posted on 04/08/2021 6:48:22 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: cuban leaf

The classic “make or buy” decision.


49 posted on 04/08/2021 6:52:02 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I still remember that old song! One of my favorites from around 1968.

Nelson Rockefeller suggested changing the name of Capitol Hill to Old Rocky Top.

Clean the Slate in '68--Jim Nesbit

50 posted on 04/08/2021 6:57:27 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: mylife

You don’t eat corn, you rent it.


51 posted on 04/08/2021 7:04:08 PM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: mylife

Corn does NOT like me.


52 posted on 04/08/2021 7:05:41 PM PDT by madison10 (Although the wrong seems oft so strong...God is the Ruler yet!)
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To: HollyB

“Your grandparents were American not Spaniards nor in Spain.”

That’s an assumption, albeit a correct one (they were of English descent). Do you feel that Spanish people digest corn differently from other nationalities, or is it just that their opinion of it is different?


53 posted on 04/08/2021 7:06:31 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Nifster

I know. Pretty silly especially when most of Europe was starving after WW2. The US had an abundance of corn w could hav giv n them but as I understand it, most Europeans wouldn’t eat it.


54 posted on 04/08/2021 7:14:42 PM PDT by Third Wheel
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To: All

when I was a child I was sent out to get corn for dinner,
I picked the biggest yellowest ones and was admonished for it upon return.
brought back feed corn “its for the pigs!”

that is when I learned silver queen rocks


55 posted on 04/08/2021 7:27:22 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Third Wheel

so WTF is the deal with polenta? seriously! $5.99 corn mush?


56 posted on 04/08/2021 7:30:04 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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with EVOO.....


57 posted on 04/08/2021 7:30:50 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

and a bit of basil...


58 posted on 04/08/2021 7:32:52 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

No idea. Never been there. Only know what a neighbor from France told me 20 years ago. She was always revolted seeing people eat corn. For all I know corn could be served at every meal in France. Again, don’t know and don’t care.


59 posted on 04/08/2021 7:34:29 PM PDT by Third Wheel
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To: mylife

Probably what gets piled on top of it.


60 posted on 04/08/2021 7:36:20 PM PDT by crosdaddy
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