Recent Proliferation of GMO foods and Glyphosates

Up until 6-7 years ago I was exceptionally healthy and could eat virtually anything I wanted without deleterious effects. Then all of a sudden everything hit the fan. Maybe it really is the recent proliferation of GMO foods that is the cause of all these food allergies and chronic diseases.

I am especially disappointed to hear about soybeans. I supplement with lecithin or Phosphatidylcholines (PC) for general health and because PC has been proven to be helpful for ulcerative colitis. No more unless I can find a source derived from non-GMO soy.

Corn: Corn is the No. 1 crop grown in the U.S. and nearly all of it -- 88 percent -- is genetically modified. In addition to being added to innumerable processed foods, genetically modified corn is a staple of animal feed.
Soy: 93 percent of soy is genetically modified. Soy is a staple of processed foods under various names including hydrogenated oils, lecithin, emulsifiers, tocopherol (a vitamin E supplement) and proteins.

articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/10/06/dr-huber-gmo-foods.aspx
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup, used in ever-increasing amounts on genetically engineered (GE) crops...
As Dr. Seneff and Samsel reveal in a recent study conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, glyphosate is probably the most harmful chronic toxin we’ve ever encountered, and could possibly be the most important factor in the development of multiple chronic diseases and conditions that have become prevalent in Westernized societies today—including Alzheimer’s, autism, Crohn’s disease, gluten intolerance, leaky gut and many others.

Besides chelating micronutrients, glyphosate is also patented as an antibiotic...
What's worse, glyphosate preferentially affects beneficial bacteria, allowing pathogens to overgrow and take over...

It’s well worth noting that, on May 1, 2013, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doubled the amount of glyphosate allowed in food... Soybean oil may now contain as much as 40 parts per million (ppm) of glyphosate. Meanwhile, research by Dr. Monika Krueger at Leipzig University shows that a tenth of a part per million is all that it takes to kill your beneficial Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, and Enterococcus faecalis. So soybean oil is now allowed to contain a whopping 400 times the known limit at which it can impact your health...

Post Edited (BabeintheWoods) : 3/8/2014 8:24:47 PM (GMT-7)

I'm not a believer in all this GMO is bad for you stuff. As far as I know there isn't one shred of evidence to prove it. Gene's of everything including people and plants have been "modified" naturally since the dawn of time. People have graduated to combining different varieties of plants through "natural" hybrid technologies. What difference does it make if something is hybrided through natural selection, forced natural selection, or getting in there and literally tinkering with the genes? Using this GMO argument you wouldn't be allowed to eat anything unless it was the very first plant ever formed on the earth and that is ridiculous.

Roundup is in more than the food supply, probably in the groundwater too. It's used by your neighbors and the yard maintenance people.

Back when I lived in an HOA I called and asked them NOT to spray my yard with anything because I was growing some veggies as well as native plants for the butterflies. Oh yes they sprayed until I came running out yelling (had to yell over the noise of the machines). They also broke the law by not putting those little flags down on every yard giving notice of chemicals. Those chemicals are systemic and go right through your skin, your barefoot children's skin and your pets, into your organs and blood.

My husband ended up with a 90% skin breakout because of the overuse of nasty chemicals. It didn't clear up until a year after we moved (never will I live in an HOA again.)

Now I didn't say anything about chemicals sprayed on plants, but that happens with just about all of them, including many that are "organic". I'm strictly saying that just because something has been genetically modified that there isn't one shred of evidence that that is bad for "people" (assuming we're not talking about sprayed on chemicals). That's a whole different discussion. I'm not going to argue with anyone on that.