OK, as athletes we all work hard to stay in great shape. Lets face it, regardless of who you are sooner or later someone will kick your arse!! So for **me **the pursuit of this lifestyle and my priorities are Health and Longevity above Fitness and Speed.
So I just got my latest newsletter from Mercola.com and wanted to share this with the community. What importance do you place on making sure you are eating foods from a good source? How do you avoid GM foods?
WARNING!!! this is a looong video, I am about half way through it. It is really compelling stuff and scary as shit! I have to say Jeffrey Smith is a superb presenter.
I haven’t seen the video. My mother gave me a book called “seeds of deception” I read a few chapters and went from not worrying at all about GM foods to trying to avoid them completely. I think they are probably VERY bad stuff! GM potatoes damaged the immune systems of rats in the study done. They also had smaller brains, testes, and livers. When they went off the GM diet they were sick for the equivalent of 10 human years. So the damage continued for a very long time. In addition the nutritional content of the potatoes was less than a normal potato. These potatoes were GM in the same way that most of our soy and corn is. They changed the DNA so they are not eaten by pests. GM potatoes have their own pesticide in them. Some animals won’t even eat them. Monsanto’s goal is to make all of our food supplied from their GM seeds.
There’s some really good, free audio clips out there on the topic. If you go the Seeds of Deception website, there’s a 1 hour free audio lecture called “Don’t Put That In Your Mouth”. Good listen for your next run.
I have no direct or relevant knowledge about GM foods and would put myself in the “don’t think about it and not concerned about it” group.
That being said giving it 30 seconds thought right now would I trust an agra-firm to put my general wellbeing above market share? Hell no. I assume they will do the minimum required and possibly less if they think they can get away with it or the penalty is not commensurate with the benefit.
Guess I’ll be reading more on the subject in the near future. Thanks for poking another hole in my warm blanket of ignorance!
I don’t believe that consuming GM foods is dangerous in any way. However, I do have concerns with our food in a general sense because the nutritional content has decreased in favour of food that is uniform in size, easy to transport and ripens at the same time. Varieties have been bred, selected or GMed to meet this criteria without any regard to flavour or nutritional content. I’ve found over the past 20y that the fresh food available in the groceries stores has started to taste very bland. I thought that it was just me but then I read “The End of Food” by T. Pawlick. He explains how and why this has happened.
From an environmental perspective, I would prefer to eat only local, organic and non-GMO but that’s not entirely practical. I think that the quality of our soil is a serious problem that is only being made worse by fertilizers and high-yield crops. I’m not sure that we have enough soil or water to sustain the population of the planet and we’re in for a major collapse.
Be careful with GM foods. Nature is how God intended us to eat. Not saying that we can’t improve food production, but best not to mess with the actual chemical structure of foods.
Isn’t all food GM? Even before they knew anything about genetics, people used breeding techniques to isolate traits that they wanted in foods. It seems to me that classification of foods as GM or non-GM is arbitrary.
And to the person that talked about mice being sick for the equivalent of 10 human years, I just want to say that doesn’t make any sense. Chemical reactions don’t happen faster just because the animal has a shorter lifespan. Mouse years are the same as human years. Mice just get fewer of them.
No, you need to watch the video. Around 21-30 min in they explain how a GM is created, so it is far from arbitrary. What we do *naturally *is selective breeding but we are not messing with the essence of the DNA itself in doing so. If you are trying to breed a fast racehorse for instance you make sure you only mate in the champions bloodlines. That does not at all change the DNA called “horse”, it just selectively chooses the DNA in that species that is FAST.
These bastards are blasting modified DNA from bacteria into corn and then growing those cells. In the process about 2-4% of the DNA mutates and there is a 5% change in the DNA expression itself . So then what you are eating may look like corn BUT it is something else and as you will see in that video, that SOMETHING ELSE has some pretty devastating effects.
Mice have smaller organs so the devastation that would happen in a mouse liver would take a significantly shorter amount of time than it would in a human liver. Small animals are used in lab tests to highlight the effects faster that is why coal miners used to carry canaries into the mines to test for methane.