Hmmm. This is news to me.
Why is corn such a problem?
I'm not being a smart aleck. I've always thought of calories being calories. Too many calories is the problem, not the source of them. Right?
If you were to manage to eat the perfect diet, all healthy foods, getting all the vitamins, minerals, nutrients, micronutrients, etc. the right number of servings of vegetables, fruit, fiber, omega 3 oils, fatty acids, etc. etc. your supposed to get in a day... you would end up eating more calories than the average person burns in a day. So you would also have to get in a good amount of exercise. Which, in a perfect world would be what we would all do anyway.
Every time you eat something that is devoid of nutrition and has calories, those calories are going to be too many. But what often happens is even worse. People eat the twinkie INSTEAD of the servings of fruit for instance. So what you end up with is your body not getting the nutrients it needs to function, yet being asked to process crap (literally and figuratively lol). The building blocks of your body are weakened and unable to function optimally (lacking the nutrients), yet are asked to do more work (processing the chemicals, dyes, various and sundry manufactured "food" products, extra calories, etc. that are in HFCS or plain ol sugary, fake foods) .
Aaaand, on top of that things like sodas, the carbonic acid actually leaches minerals and such out of your body (and off your teeth). They not only dont add anything good, and add bad, but also take away good stuff from you. Plus, you should be drinking tea "unsweetened lol". There are a myriad of health benefits from drinking tea. New study just out shows its likely to reduce strokes by 20%, and the more tea you drink, the higher that percentage. But even here, there is only so much liquid (milk, wine, tea,) that your likely to drink in a day, so anything bad, like sodas, means your even more likely to leave out something good. Heck, I am almost convinced that you should leave out plain water lol. Any time you would drink water, drink tea instead.
Asaand, on top of that, many nutrients need their "counterparts" in order to be effective. There are fat soluble and water soluble vitamins for instance. The fat soluble vitamins in order to work, need the right amounts and types of dietary fats to latch on to or they are worthless. Banannas go with milk, each has a complimentary amino acid that the body uses to make a certain protein. Corn and Beans are a complimentary food that native Americans have put together for ages because together, they are more nutritious than apart. They each have components that when eaten together the body can take and make important building blocks from. White rice is missing lysine, add beans or peas and your body has both the amino acids it needs to build an essential protein.
Legume + whole grain = rice and beans
Legume + dairy product = chili and cheese
Whole grain + diary product = pasta with cheese
Dairy product + nuts/seeds = yogurt with sunflower seeds
We even try to remedy inbalances or play up potential "complimentary nutrients" by adding things to certain foods.
Calcium and vitamin D in Orange juice (vitamin D helps regulate calcium and phosphorous), folate in breads, iodine in salt, probiotics in yogurt.
Many foods you need to eat to get good nutrients from, also have some potential negatives. But when balanced with its "opposite", the negative is cancelled out. Fiber can reduce bad cholesterol. The "French Paradox" creme broule balanced out with a glass of wine lol. The Chili and Cheese combo above balanced out with some fruit.
Those are just some examples of the "balance" in a balanced diet. Fake food with HFCS unbalance, that balance. No one food has all the nutrients your body needs. Replacing good foods with bad creates several negative synergies.
Btw, does anyone know why we put lemon juice on fish?
