http://mises.org/daily/3934
This is not new news.
Counter to intuition, ethanol as it is in our current market is not a good idea. Corn is a tasty vegetable, but when it comes to our market, it represents a huge problem. Since the 70's corn has been an influence into politics on an international level, affecting sugar prices, tariffs, taxes, and foreign relations.
I am not proposing an end to the corn industry as a whole, but we should seriously reconsider a reshaping of the current structure of the economics surrounding corn in general.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
You are what you eat!
http://emilie.hermit.net/content/nutrition-diet-you-are-what-you-eat-bites-back
Well actually, this might be more true that you realize. Apparently, some plant DNA survives the digestion process and is absorbed into our bloodstream. Woah!
Its not like any of us or going to start turning green, become solar powered, or mutate into something out of Little Shop of Horrors, but there are apparently some benefits to this. The article cites that the microRNA leftover from the plants we eat actually acts to lower bad cholesterol.
Since this is leftover from the plants we eat, we can assert that it isn't just about getting the nutrients, its about getting the food as a whole, its not just the beta-carotene, its the carrot. This makes some sense as the human body has evolved to not produce some essential amino acids because they can be derived from a healthy diet. Likewise, a healthy, high-plant diet would be beneficial in that an ability to use some of the plants genes to decrease problem chemicals in our body appears to be a healthy adaptive trait.
Well actually, this might be more true that you realize. Apparently, some plant DNA survives the digestion process and is absorbed into our bloodstream. Woah!
Its not like any of us or going to start turning green, become solar powered, or mutate into something out of Little Shop of Horrors, but there are apparently some benefits to this. The article cites that the microRNA leftover from the plants we eat actually acts to lower bad cholesterol.
Since this is leftover from the plants we eat, we can assert that it isn't just about getting the nutrients, its about getting the food as a whole, its not just the beta-carotene, its the carrot. This makes some sense as the human body has evolved to not produce some essential amino acids because they can be derived from a healthy diet. Likewise, a healthy, high-plant diet would be beneficial in that an ability to use some of the plants genes to decrease problem chemicals in our body appears to be a healthy adaptive trait.
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