New study finds butterflies unharmed by GMO corn

[Chris J. Durden]

Doug,
  I agree that those oily chips are none too good. I always read the
package. If ot has BHT or BHA I reject it. If an oil has a long shelf life
it is hard to digest. I avoid soy and rape-seed oil when I can. My diet
comes close to the eastern Mediterranean diet with a lot of olive oil,
except there is more meat in it. So far cholesterol and blood pressure have
behaved well.
  I sometimes eat chips to be polite but they are not a major part of my diet.
  My note by the way, was just a comment on change in flavor and
digestibility.
.......Chris

At 05:05  7/06/00 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 6/7/00 12:54:20 PM PDT, drdn at mail.utexas.edu writes:
>
>.......> I have, however stopped buying my favorite brand of
>>  commercial tortillas. I have done this not because I think there is
>>  anything wrong with them. They do not look different. There is no
change in
>>  the list of ingredients. I have done this because for the last 3 months
>>  they have not tasted as good and have given me indigestion. Is this a
>>  change in me or the corn? Has anyone else noticed a decline in quality of
>>  corn products recently?
>>  ........Chris
>
>Yes, I noticed the same thing in a number of products I eat.  Before
focusing 
>on the corn, I would consider that a greater flavor impact is from fat.  Fat 
>tastes good to snack food junkies!  Two things here: (1) Fat content and 
>choice and (2) Including non-GMO materials in response to consumer
pressures. 
> If there is a choice between fat and GMO (Said choice hypothetical and only 
>hypothetical at this point!), at least half of the heart disease related 
>deaths probably can be prevented by long term preventitive smart eating......
>
>(1) In many cases, the "nutritional quality" has been improved by replacing 
>yummy good tasting lards, tropical oils and other more saturated fats with 
>more healthy (statistically GMO, since most soy bean and canola mixtures 
>contained the modified stuff).  Too bad saturated fats taste so good.  
>
>A healthy 2,000 calorie diet of 30% max fat = max 66 g fat.  That means a 
>three ounce snack bag of chips has about a third of the fat for the day,
each 
>chip has almost a gram of fat.  
>
>(2) Recently Frito-lay and others has begun to cut down on their GMO
content, 
>buying certified non-GMO corn or soy stuff from producers like Brasil.  The 
>non-GMO stuff ironically may not taste as good since the processes and GMO 
>bred products have received much of the attention have been optimized.    
>Fritos may be taking the lead.  Perhaps Olestra ought to be more popular 
>though it has other problems...
>
>Happy butterflying... Doug Dawn
>Woodland,  CA
>(munching guiltily on Santitas brand tortillas chips which really don't tast 
>as good as before)
>