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Study: Genetically Modified Corn Increases Body Weight in Rats
We previously reported:
Many crops in the U.S. are now genetically modified. For example, 93 percent of soybeans grown in the US are genetically engineered, as are:
- 86% of all corn
- 93% of canola
- 93% of cottonseed oil
- Between 2008 and 2009, 95% of all sugarbeets planted were genetically engineered to be able to tolerate high doses of the pesticide Roundup
Some allege that Roundup kills healthy gut bacteria, and that genetically modified crops cause other health problems.
Many people claim that genetically modified (GM) foods increase obesity:
But is there any evidence for that claim?
One study implies that there might be.
Scientists tested GM corn at Monsanto laboratories, and found that the GMs increase body weight in rats. Specifically, a paper published in the International Journal of Biological Sciences reported in 2009:
We present for the first time a comparative analysis of blood and organ system data from trials with rats fed three main commercialized genetically modified (GM) maize (NK 603, MON 810, MON 863), which are present in food and feed in the world.
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The three animal feeding studies were conducted in two different laboratories and at two different dates; at Monsanto (Missouri, USA) for NK 603 and MON 810 (June 7, 2000) and at Covance Laboratories Inc. (Virginia, USA) for MON 863 (March 14, 2001) on behalf of Monsanto.
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Crude and relative liver weights are also affected at the end of the maximal (33%) GM maize feeding level as well as that of the heart which for corresponding parameters to a comparable extent, showed up to an 11% weight increase.
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Additional statistically significant differences include … higher … overall body (3.7%) weight …
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Several parameters indicate increases in circulating glucose and triglyceride levels, with liver function parameters disrupted together with a slight increase in total body weight. This physiological state is indicative of a pre-diabetic profile.
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Our data strongly suggests that these GM maize varieties induce a state of hepatorenal [i.e. kidney and liver] toxicity.
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This can be due to the new pesticides (herbicide or insecticide) present specifically in each type of GM maize, although unintended metabolic effects due to the mutagenic properties of the GM transformation process cannot be excluded [Remember that some GM crops are engineered to have the plants produce their own pesticides, some pesticides can cause obesity, and the pesticides are not magically destroyed before making it into our bloodstream]. All three GM maize varieties contain a distinctly different pesticide residue associated with their particular GM event (glyphosate and AMPA in NK 603, modified Cry1Ab in MON 810, modified Cry3Bb1 in MON 863). These substances have never before been an integral part of the human or animal diet and therefore their health consequences for those who consume them, especially over long time periods are currently unknown.
Indeed, even animals are getting fatter … which points to something in the environment.
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I went over to primal eating 5 months ago. That basically means I only eat grass fed meat, fish, eggs, veges and fruit and nuts, oils like olive and coconut, (no grains, no dairy, no factory oils like safflower, etc, alcohol, limited starches). No calorie counting.
Positive physical results appeared within three weeks and have been astonishing. Goodbye love handles. Muscles have become firm again. From man boobs to square chest again with no physical exercise. Pains and physical stiffness (of a bad kind) that I have had for decades have disappeared. I couldn't touch my toes and hadn't for years but inside three months I was doing the splits. In my experience, primal eating is a time machine for your body.
If widely adopted, what would be thel effects of this kind of eating on social organization? Of course it would be the end of the grain industries. It would certainly also be the end of the commercial food and supermarket industry in general as we currently know it. The transport industries would be rocked. The "health care" industry would be down-sized, without a doubt. Big pharma would be secerely damaged. The advertising and television/media industries would be almost destroyed. In short, it would be the end of the current social organization in terms of cities and their bureaucracies and a return to a more decentralized and perhaps even less specialised society, at least in some areas of life.
So the general question is, if everyone chose to eat primal, where would they work, where would they live, and what effects would this have on government, corporations, family and power? The kneejerk impulse is to foresee some kind of Pol Pot Year Zero scenario with a sudden mass depopulation. Of course, we've used grains to centralize and enslave for a long time. How would we live without them? I haven't done the research so I don't know.
Unbelievable that anyone would junk your story ... because the outcomes are the same for anyone who has tried it!
FWIW, homo sapiens rapidly evolved from earlier primates purely because the discovery of fire-cooked meats gave us the amino acid and cholesterol intake that fed brain growth. Those who regress to a vegetarian diet of fruits, nuts, grains, leaves and roots are fighting against their own genetic makeup!
When humans increase their percentage of meat or milk protein intake past a certain point, lots of disease crops up. When they do the same with plant protein, it does not - The China Study.
When we cook food, it goes through a process called leukocytosis and the body actually considers it a foreign substance which triggers all kinds of reactions. Cooked food also loses much of its nutrients and other contents that our body needs. Many nutrition experts have found that a diet with at least 50 percent raw vegetation leads not only to better health but goes a long way to preventing disease and cancer.
There are plants that provide all the amino acids. A wide variety is the key (but see Quinoa - it has them all) B-12 is definitely an issue for vegetarians however. In a permaculutre / organic setting (read primitive) the food is fertilized by many things including animal droppings. This translates the b-12 into the plants. Modern Ag. does not of course. Grains are definitely overplayed and we should avoid them for the most part.
The other BIG problem with grains (and most of modern agriculture) is that our monocrop culture is utterly unsustainable. We should eat like we evolved - out of the forest and wildlife.
I haven't completely made up my mind about meat but I have been vegetarian for about 4 years and have observed the same physical benefits as the "primitive" diet and have much better concentration, sleep paterns, and overall health.
Same here!
I went on a combined Pritkin/Paleo diet and lost twenty pounds in about two weeks. Obviously that was water weight. However, it also brought my systolic blood pressure down from 185 to 112 over the same period of time. Furthermore, I'm starting to see the muscles in my tummy.
Pretty damned amazing.
Look at Rush Retard, he is fat. He is a Monsanto supporter. He is a corn fed GMO eating dude.
I think by eating this stuff it ruins your brain. Look at him. Maybe we need to spread GMO's over in Washington.
I never forget the article that was written about the farmers in India that went out and bought GMO corn to plant as it was to guarentee the crop. The crops failed and they said that the farmers were hanging themselves all over India because they had lost everything.
The managment at Monsanto needs to be fed GMOs for 5 years before they put it out on the market to see what the results will be. That would stop that. We sure would have a Roundup then.
Eat less, consuming food that decreases your body weight eventually leads to starvation.
Bush’s Whitehouse and now Obama’s, serve only organic. The Monsanto cafeteria serves only organic. What does that tell us?
TO SERVE MAN.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIufLRpJYnI
Commercial beekeepers, in an effort to protect their bees from pesticide tainted pollen, have taken to providing them with corn syrup as a food source. The syrup, naturally, is made from GMO corn. I'll bet that's not helping the bees to thrive.
(IIRC) – Field trials were conducted in Iowa about three years ago with BT-107 and BT-109 Corn. One or both were GMO’d with the live Aides virus in them. I kid you not. This was reported by Jeffrey M. Smith, who is pretty much the world authority on what Monsanto and these eugenics freaks/monsters are up to.
I hate corn, But i like pancakes. Does anyone like Pancakes? I like pancakes... And waffles too
92% of Americans want mandatory labeling of GM foods. But the FDA hasn't yet gotten the message.
"92% of Americans want mandatory labeling of GM foods. But the FDA hasn't yet gotten the message".
Alright George,
I'm gonna take issue with this one. You're hyperventilating. 92% of Americans have never agreed on anything and never will. A sampling poll is irrelevant as proven by every BLS report since 2009 ;-)
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Answer the question...who conducted the poll, who were polled and how many? You said millions of Americans affirmed.
And I'm not in the mood to give the saintly, the benevolent, the wonderful, the all knowing "FDA" another dime...for complete bullshit, George.
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Don't answer then.
Here's your wonderful "food police" in action. Keep them thin, not too much salt though (we have "regulations" afterall) keep them coming back for more...
DHS Commissioner Seth Diamond says the ban on food donations is consistent with Mayor Bloomberg’s emphasis on improving nutrition for all New Yorkers. A new interagency document controls what can be served at facilities — dictating serving sizes as well as salt, fat and calorie contents, plus fiber minimums and condiment recommendations.
The city also cites food-safety issues with donations, but it’s clear that the real driver behind the ban is the Bloomberg dietary diktats.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/no_kugel_for_you_N4VuTrqavfOiApSHngxuMJ#ixzz1piAjvNeD
ABC News poll--92%
http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/abc_poll_ge_label.cfm
More recent MSNBC on line poll--96%
http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/96-of-americans-support-labeling-of-gmo-foods
Other polls (Reuters, Wash Post, etc.)--93% to 95%
http://gefoodlabels.org/gmo-labeling/polls-on-gmo-labeling/
ABC and MSNBC? That alone proves it's a BS poll.
He-said-92%-of-Americans.
Do you have any idea how sample polling works?
If I had my pick of 100 people to poll...and in my sample...I had 92 people who agreed with me, would you say 92% of all people agreed with me?
I would hope not...you don't want me or anyone else making decisions on anything on such spurious grounds.
And I would point you to what I'm really saying here...again...the FDA (government) is the last entity you want to decide what you put into your body.
That falls to you...choose wisely.
Many past studies have also shown health and environmental problems from GM foods.
Don't you know that most modern "studies" are made to order depending on the issue TPTB want the sheep to believe.
Tyler:
Fact: Corn Increases Body Weight in <please enter omnivore/herbivore species here>Any questions, omnivore beigns? http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/omega_3_fatty_acids.htm
Just wait till you get a load of the new petri dish meat. Animal tissues cultured in the lab, YUM! Atlantis is said to have been sunk as a consequence of it's own perverted sciences. Time for swimming lessons.
And those GMO seeds are killing the bees:
Honeybee Deaths Linked to Seed Insecticide Exposure
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 12, 2012) — Honeybee populations have been in serious decline for years, and Purdue University scientists may have identified one of the factors that cause bee deaths around agricultural fields.
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Analyses of bees found dead in and around hives from several apiaries over two years in Indiana showed the presence of neonicotinoid insecticides, which are commonly used to coat corn and soybean seeds before planting. The research showed that those insecticides were present at high concentrations in waste talc that is exhausted from farm machinery during planting.
The insecticides clothianidin and thiamethoxam were also consistently found at low levels in soil -- up to two years after treated seed was planted -- on nearby dandelion flowers and in corn pollen gathered by the bees, according to the findings released in the journal PLoS One this month.
"We know that these insecticides are highly toxic to bees; we found them in each sample of dead and dying bees," said Christian Krupke, associate professor of entomology and a co-author of the findings.
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?Shall we see how long 7 billion people can live without bees?
I don't buy any US sourced if I can help it..
I bought some US strawberries a few years ago and they were so weird.. huge and as if they had water and artificial flavouring already injected into them that I would never buy anything US again!
I hate Monsanto, and any other move towards a monopoly of food. It is dangerous and wrong.
But fatter rats from units of corn means you can feed more hungry people. This is good news. In the 19th century people had to use a lot of lard because they often had to consume 5000 cal per day to be able to keep up with the labor they did.
Monsanto's greatest crimes include making sterile GMO seeds which are only good for one year's crop, then using shareholder George Soros' influence to give Monsanto a de facto monopoly making small and independent farmers hostages.
"I hate Monsanto, and any other move towards a monopoly of food. It is dangerous and wrong."
I'm beginning to suspect more than just a few corporate rats in the grainary. I'm beginning to catch a wif of "food & herb regulation for the good of all" for a price.
Trust us.
Perhaps it's just me...but until "regulators" can prove their mettle by not permitting Monsanto to bio-engineer infertile corn seed without a public outcry to stop them...I'll remain a confirmed skeptic.
They've used rats for years...Anniston, Alabama.
probably quixotic, but what the hell http://occupy-monsanto.com/
Lab studies have shown that rats fed GMO corn after three generations produced sterile rats. Leading NWO globalists to conclude that GMO corn must be good for human consumption.
Link?
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/article-gmo-soy-linked-to-sterility
There's some scary stuff on your link Davood:
"The number of hairy mouthed hamsters was much higher among the third generation of GM soy fed animals than anywhere Surov had seen before."
"When Ermakova fed male rats GM soy, their testicles changed from the normal pink to dark blue!"
But the FDA says its all good.
Imagine what this GMO shit is doing inside human beings.
GMO was designed to do two specific things (besides making money for Monsatan et al).
One is to sterilize the human population that eat that shit knowingly or not, but not in the first generation so as to create plausible deniability.
Two it creates obesity leading to morbid obesity as part of what I call "Permacide"--the permaculture of death and disease that is the trademark economy of the United States. Fat and sick people are more prone to diseases who then become willing fodder for the pharmaceutical medical industrial complex. It's a vicious cycle of disease and death.
Good points. Possibly three specific things. (3) through patent, herbicide specific alteration and suicide genes, control the entire food supply
Just because there is correlation does not necessarily imply causation. Yes GMO foods were introduced in USA big time from 1996, and yes obesity rates went up substantially from then (and I'm talking strictly here about obesity). But you could also argue that today people exercise less because so many more things are automated, mechanized and so forth (think PS3, Wii, Internet, social networking sites, mobile phone apps to automatically turn on gadgets and stuff...). More and more of our hobbies can be done with a computer or TV and all you have to do is sit on a chair pushing some buttons on a TV controller or click a mouse or something. With each passing year the average lazy joe blogs exerts (any sort of movement really) less and less of his body, so burns up less calories.
Meanwhile you have the double whammy of more snacks, ready meals (the scourge of noughties) and stuff; so that you can quickly eat. All of which are high in calories and not very satisfying in that your body becomes addicted to the high salt, sugar and fats and wants more (even though you do not need that extra food).
This is one nasty thing, with people consuming more calories, exercising less and moving their bodies less. So its no surprise that waistlines are expanding and obesity is on the increase. Another important factor here is stress; if you're feeling down you are more inclined to eat to try to life your mood. Everyone has done it, and with jobs becoming more stressful, incomes of the 99% getting squeezed, and more burdensome government rules, laws and regulations being passed each year, people will just get more stressed.
Maybe there is a grain of truth in GMO foods having unwarranted side effects; increased chances of obesity, autism (even cancer?)... However the easiest way to lose weight is to calorie count. You eat 500 calories less than what your metabolism needs per day, and in one week you WILL lose one pound of fat. The body HAST to raid its fat stores to fill in the short fall. Throw in exercise and the short fall increases even more. Problem is you will feel really hungry, and in a culture of instant gratification, so many people find it hard to resist the temptation of eating a bit more. Throw in stress as well and its no surprise that so many overweight and obese people struggled to lose those pounds. As Fat Bastard so memorably said: I eat because I'm unhappy, and I'm unhappy because I eat. It's a vicious cycle.
I think the biggest crime of all is how calorie counting has been quietly hushed up. Every diet, weight-loss program and 'miracle' cure always glosses over calories counting. Please! Raise your middle finger to all of that crap designed to reach for your wallets (healthy food is pricey and an absolute rip-off when you can have the cheap pea instead to fill your vitamin needs). Calorie counting is the hardest thing to implement but it is the best way of losing weight. If the government was really serious about tackling this obesity epidemic it would BRAINWASH us into calorie counting, but it doesn't. Why? Because when you calorie count you eat what you need and a bit less, and not pig out or snack. This flies in the face of blatant consumerism and would cause retail sales to plummet.
Just imagine people eating very simply, rarely snacking and rarely going out to restaurants for fancy food. Most food stores (except for the essential ones like supermarkets) would go out of business, people would use their cars less (due to drive-thrus, trips to food stories, so forth...). Food and petrol consumption would go down (with the former remarkably so), and we would be in a depression. Government's would lose tax revenues... There is one word for the current crazy status quo; Koyaanisqatsi (the Hopi word for crazy life, life in turmoil, etc...)
You are right on,Frastic!! I am a physician in an area where obesity is rampant. When I talk with patients about their obesity the most common response is:" but I exercise 15minutes per day day(or 30 or 45) and I still can't lose weight". Virtually everyone of my patients, who truly have been struggling all their lives with weight, would love to lose weight, but say they can"t. Few realize that one has to walk/run 40 miles to lose ONE pound of fat.Diet is the most important way to lose weight, or not gain weight.
It is simple thermodynamics: if you take in more calories than you burn, you will gain weight. If you burn more than you take in, you lose weight. Yes, appetite can be influenced in a positive or negative way; but this is probably not what GMO foods do.
Encourage individuals to take responsibility and step on the scale on a weekly basis and adjust their diet and activity. No excuse!!
The state with the lowest BMI is Colorado. The reason is that Coloradans exercise more and eat less. GMO foods are as available in Colorado as in other states. They have just as much access to GMO foods as those in Missouri or West Virginia. Suck it up and watch your diet and don't use the excuse that you have a "glandular" condition or the devil made me eat GMO foods.
Let's put the responsibility back on the individual and lets not blame glands, McDonalds or GMO foods. When you sit down to eat, cut your burger in half and send the other half back!!
"lets not blame glands, McDonalds or GMO foods"
Lets.
Cite some solid studies showing that pink slime and GMOs are "substantially equivalent" to real food and I might entertain your point of view, but I don't think your visceral reactions to the people who come in to your practice, and the preconceived ideas that you obviously hold about them have any bearing on this question.
All that matters is the evidence, and there are two things that can be said about that: 1) there is very little of it, because Monsanto and other biopharma companies release virtually no data to the public, and 2) the evidence that does exist shows problems as highlighted by GW and many many others. If you have counter-evidence, by all means bring it forth.
Data from "The China Study," the biggest nutrition study ever performed might disagree. It is not just calories, it is the very nature of the food we take in. It makes sense if you think about it, certain foods require more energy for our bodies to break down. Our food creates thousands of chemical reactions. Exercise is definitely a big component BUT not the only one.
lol, physician.
AMA member?
Speaking of correlation, I wonder if some of the average weight gain cannot also be attributed to the lower prevalence of smoking in the general population- I remember when I quit smoking I gained a bunch of weight and replaced cigarettes with food at times.
I'm certainly not dismissing the finding of the noted experiments as they do appear to be well run, but just posing the question....
I have a lot a respect fo GW, but these food articles are getting little outside his true expertise.
First, we've been eating genetically modified foods for thousands of years. Virtually every food we grow on farms has been bred and cross bred countless times. I know its not the exactly the same thing.
As for all the crazy chemicals they put in highly processed food, we've been doing that for a long time too. If you're worried about it, eat natrual products, organic vegetables and meats. They usually taste better anyway.
As far as Obesity, just take a good look in a Safeway sometime. 70% of food in there is pure carb based. Just in case you don't know, carbs are starches, which are sugar chains that turn to pure sugar when they hit your stomache. We have kids and people eating nothgin but soda, potato chips, candy, microwave popcorn, pizza, cread, crackers etc. Their diet is nothing but sugar, so of course they're fat. Some poeple consider the low-carb diet to be a crze (which it's not), so just consider eating a balanced diet (remember that?) Get 1/3 of your calories from carbs, protiens and fats, keep clean and unprocessed adn you'll end up being pretty healthy without going paranoid about evything you eat.
You are literally speaking out of your ass: ". . . we've been eating genetically modified foods for thousands of years."
GMO wasn't invented until the early 1980s and started getting into the food chain in the early 1990s. Cross-breeding and GMO are completely different animals.
"Calories" are what the sheeple are sold on by the FDA et al to hide the real causes of obesity and morbid obesity which was never a problem until recently.
corporate government revolving door syndrome
Former Former Monsanto Exec. Appointed to the Head of the F.D.A.!http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/01/21/former-monsanto-exec-appointed-t...
good for connecting the dots between our corporate fud supply and Michael Taylor.
MIchael Taylor is indeed the man but only one of many who rotated in and out of Monsanto and the FDA numerous times
And how the hell does any of that explain animals and 6 month olds getting fatter?
Hey GW, you are on a roll.... 3 in a row...
Very good comments on the most part as well...
Not to mention that the commercial beef is force fed this corn slop and people eat beef not even realizing that the corn bi-products are in the meat. I can't ever remember having an obese classmate. I do remember we had one fat lady who sat in front in church every week and she stood out as an exception. Imagine what complications will arise in the future with people eating GMO crap from birth. Scary.
http://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Roulette-Documented-Genetically-Engineered/dp/0972966528
Exactly.
Just go to any college or university and take a good hard look at the class photos from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, etc. and then compare them to today's photos since 90s. There is something very very wrong with the health and waistline of modern Americans.
George Washington can not tell a lie. Shorted Monsanto and wrote this article. Then I chopped down that hybrid cherry tree to save my people from obesity
Thanks, GW.
Unintended consequences displayed, every action has an equal opposite reaction proved again.
Always an interesting perspective from your posts.
I'm a PhD Biometrician (That is a biologist and statistician).
The statistical methods used in this paper are excellent.
Near the bottom of the paper you will find its authors' biographies. Their credentials are impressive.
Here is the link to the paper www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm
The very fact that they openly address the power of the study and the size of the detectable change was nice to see. It's pretty rare from what I've seen.
This was an interesting passage in the section discussing the statistical power relative to the experimental design:
"In particular, sex differences were frequently used [by Monsanto] to reject pathological significance, despite the fact that this was without measuring effects on sex hormone levels. They also used the lack of linear dose-related effects, which is almost inevitable given that only two feeding doses were measured, to declare the diet as safe, as proposed for MON 863 GM maize."
I'm curious: as a Biometrician, do you think Monsanto was justified in their interpretation of the data and the experimental design (two doses only), or was this more of an exercise in "Lying with Statistics?"