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Every generation has some product/ingredient that they didn’t know was dangerous at the time: tobacco, lead, asbestos, etc. What is that item for this generation? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Jpopy@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's also the fact people have been eating corn as a staple for millennia.

[–] Cozy@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Yes and no. Corn is nothing new but the corn we use is kinda new. It is one of the biggest GMO there is. That's a big part in research right now within those studies. And it's not against GMO per se but the changes corn made. Maybe it's really just sugar and fructose semms to be worse as glucose. So yeah, maybe sugar, but right now it seems to be more.

[–] Shikadi@wirebase.org 2 points 1 year ago

Worth noting US corn is quite different than corn of the past due to selective breeding and such