Republished study: GMO Corn Can Cause Damage to Liver and Kidneys, and Severe Hormonal Disruption

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47. Soda is GMO corn (HFCS) which is designed to be loaded with most easily absorbed sugar -- fructose

GMO corn was designed to fatten cattle for slaughter and it does.

Bloomberg wasn't totally crazy when he went after soda -- it wasn't a political winner but the data is there. Bloomberg made his billions -- he didn't inherit it. The guy gets the best data and acts on it. He asked a panel to look into healthcare costs in the City and they found that it cost the City $217,000 for every NYer that develops morbid obesity. The City spend $4.7 bil on obesity related medical treatment every year and the number is rising. Obesity correlates strongly with diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and cancers. Kidney failure is one of the ways that diabetes kills people -- in other words you don't die of being overweight you die because your kidneys lose the ability to get toxins out of your body effectively. The panel recommended a couple things that would make the biggest dent in the problem. One rec was to wean people off of soda. Another was to reduce the incidence of smoking tobacco.

The science is there, the numbers are there. Bloomberg wasn't relying on "Natural News" here. Diet has a huge impact on quality of life and the cost, for the individual and the community, of health care. Bloomberg made a lot of headway on smoking but not on soda. IMHO that is because people accept that smoking is very unhealthy but that took decades. So it will take time on the soda and other GMO foods. Bloomberg was too far ahead of the public perception of this problem.

Perhaps appropriately, the talking points now being used to defend GMO are being called "cigarette science" as many see the similarities. GMO is on trial in Vermont with the burden of proof on the GMO industry to prove that GMO has no significantly different health consequences than conventional seed.

And that may be tough because:

GMO corn was designed to fatten cattle for slaughter and it does.