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Corn and Violence?

By thunderlips11   Follow   Thu, 27 Dec 2012, 8:33am   272 views   5 comments
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Wild Study looking at the effects of a Corn-based diet and violence; Societies that eat more maize have more violence:
http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1978/pdf/1978-v07n04-p227.pdf

If Correlation equals causation, corn could be it!

In Europe, Asia, the Southern Cone corn is considered animal feed and is seldom on the menu. In North and Central America and Africa, it's a daily staple...

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1. errc Follow Befriend (7) 29 threads 1,203 comments 31 male Premium

   1   8:40am Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   More specifically, id imagine its the sugars from corn HFCS here in the SAD-lands. Sugar is the gateway drug, it primes our young for the litany of addictions they are faced with as they grow older.

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   2   9:40am Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   errc says Sugar is the gateway drug How? This established in scientific literature you can point us to?

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   3   9:53am Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike (1)   They suggest that sweet-eating children don't learn to defer gratification and carry impulsive behaviors into adulthood. They also speculate that big candy eaters are also more likely to eat additive-laden food--which some researchers claim has adverse behavioral effects throughout life. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2009/10/01-03.html

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   4   11:29am Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   thunderlips11 says In Europe, Asia, the Southern Cone corn is considered animal feed and is seldom on the menu. In North and Central America and Africa, it's a daily staple... Hitler Stalin Pol Pot Sarajevo Mussolini

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   5   11:49am Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   errc says They suggest that sweet-eating children don't learn to defer gratification and carry impulsive behaviors into adulthood. They also speculate that big candy eaters are also more likely to eat additive-laden food--which some researchers claim has adverse behavioral effects throughout life. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2009/10/01-03.html Yes and the article says they are also lower educated, which means poorer. Poverty and violence have always been correlated. So which factor is primary and how do you choose? Things are never as simple as a single soundbite. thunderlips11 says Wild Study looking at the effects of a Corn-based diet and violence; Societies that eat more maize have more violence: This is from 1978 based on 1972 data for christ sakes. WTF? Surely there must be more recent research. Sounds like publish or perish to me. You must have been really, really bored over Christmas to come up with this one.