Corned

Whenever my husband is watching baseball, usually the Yankees, and someone hits a easy fly ball, he says, "Its a can of corn". I had never heard of this prior to our matrimonial union. Now I hear it at least twenty times every baseball season.

Corn was one of the 'three sisters' (corn, beans and squash) of our Native American's supporting and sustaining life. Now, we have corn coming out of our ears. Corn is everywhere and in everything.

The next time you walk into a grocery store, look around. Take it all in. Most everything you are seeing can be traced back to corn, save produce. Livestock is corn fed because it is cheaper and produces fatter animals. Our juices and drinks contain high fructose corn syrup. Even our prepackaged items contain at least two forms of corn. Corn is in everything.....YUCK. Do you know corn is America's number one crop above all others. Do we need that much corn?

Now I am not a doctor or a scientist but it seems odd that we are seeing a huge increase in food allergies, digestive disorders and asthma in almost epidemic proportions in children? When I adopted my daughter from Ethiopia, I asked if she had any allergies like any American Mom would ask. They told me that children in Ethiopia very rarely have food allergies. It is something they do not see. They also don't eat corn or any corn based foods.....hmmmm, interesting.

Read your labels and get familiar with what is in your food, www.cornallergens.com. Try and eat meats that are free range and grass fed. They are even force feeding corn to farmed fish these days. In the words of my ten year old daughter Diana, 'That is just wrong".