Just jumping in briefly, to point you towards a new study that has shown corn affects some patients dealing with coeliacs and gluten intolerances.
The full study is here – it’s written in medicalese and you will need to register to read it.
A good summary as well as some information about corn and it’s effects can be found here.
Personally I recommend the second link, but beware, if you’re dealing with a gluten intolerance or coeliacs disease, reading that link may leave you with a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, as small things start to add up.
It would explain why Amy reacts to some things, even when I know they are gluten free and artificial colouring free.
Sigh.
(If you’re looking for this morning’s post – that is here.)
Thanks very much to Tiff, who passed these links along to me via The Gluten Free Review
I clicked over and read the article, point number 7 seems a little odd.
7. It is being used as a staple food for our cattle, fish, chickens, and cars.
CARS?? Cars eat corn??
It’s being turned into biofuel to power cars 🙂
Veronica,
Thank you for posting the above article on corn. I wanted to inform you that http://www.glutenfreesociety.org is a new website that will be posting very critical scientific updates in the ongoing field of gluten and grain research.
River,
10% of the fuel in the US is mandated to come from corn.
In good health,
Dr. O
Well that’s a bit of a slap in the face to put it mildly. What a bugger, I’m so sorry. Here’s hoping you find a gluten substitute substitue (iyswim).
Michael Pollan was on Oprah this week – I usually don’t watch that crap, but Food Inc. is definitely something I need to watch. He was saying if you buy meats or dairy to make sure they come from grass-fed animals. I wonder if any taint of the feed, if the milk or meat comes from a corn-fed animal, makes it into the end product? Its worth thinking about. I just hate that its so expensive to buy anything that isn’t made either from eleventy billion chemical additives (Curse you Red Dye #40!) or has a primary ingredient of “Corn by-product.” Blurgh. Reading your blog I am feeling fortunate not to have a celiac or gluten intolerance issue to deal with, though I think with my kids behavioral issues that it is still worth limiting these products in their diets.
Fuel can be made from corn, yet the oil barons still have us over a barrel. Something to think about.
As a person with celiac I’m always interested in this sort of thing. I have to note that this is not really a new study though (the date says it was published in 2005). Also, you might be interested to know that there was a similarish thing done way back http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/371884 which noted that celiac patients had a much higher incidence of maize antibodies. Celiac disease is an auto-immune disorder which tends to cluster with other auto-immune disorders (you are 10x more likely to have at least one other auto-immune disorder if you have celiac disease), and apparently other grain sensitivities such as corn, oats and rice can go hand in hand even if not part of the celiac disease itself.
I’ve opened all the other links and am heading that way now! Thank you Veronica, you are an awesome resource. What Mary said about eating the grass fed beef I’ve read over and over, but it’s extremely difficult to find grass fed beef (even though I’m 20 miles from cattle) because everybody in the US is lulled into believing that “grain fed beef” is the most healthy there is, regardless that a cow would never go on the hunt for corn, but would rather graze in a pasture. Whatever.
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