Reading response

Chapter 6: Processed food
   Summary: How much corn americans take in per year thats not real corn but processed corn. Different types of corn can be used to make the stuff we love to eat every day. Regular corn can make pop corn,  livestock feed, snack foods, taco shells etc. Wet milled corn can make baby food, chewing gum, salad dressing, chocolate beverages etc. Corn is mostly in all sweeteners like fructose, glucose, sucrose and any syrup products. What was interesting to me is how corn can be used in chemical that are used to clean. The main question I have is HOW, is it possible for corn to be used in all these products?
Chapter 7: Fat from Corn
  Summary: That corn is causing obesity in children an adults. Its causing health care systems billion of dollars each year to help out with this. Ever since 1976 childhood obesity has been on rise. The cause of this rise in obesity is mostly because of the extra calories. That is mostly from the syrup, "Every year approximately 500 million bushels of corn are turned into high fructose corn syrup"The question that i have  is how can corn be a good and bad ingredient?
Chapter 8: Ominvore's Dilemma
  Summary: Explains how animals don't have dilemma in their eating habits, basically how a animal can just eat one food and get all its nutrition from it and does not need to eat different foods to stay healthy. It's different for humans because different foods give us certain vitamins. Humans have built a way to figure out what foods are good and what foods are bad. By people not eating meat every meal and having leafy greens and fresh fruits on a daily bases thats how people solved the omnivores dilemma. Americans just go by what taste good so people usually will eat sweet, salty, and greasy foods instead of bitter. Foods that are usually bitter are plants so human taste buds avoid avoid vegetables because of the taste. Something that i read that was interesting was "Standing in our giant supermarkets we feel more lost in a forest ten thousands years ago. we no longer know for sure which foods are good and which aren't". The question I have is how come Americans know what foods are healthy and good to eat but choose to eat the bad stuff and put themselves in health issues later on in life?
Chapter 9: My Fast Food Meal
  Summary: The rise of the chicken nugget and how it became so popular. Basically how mcdonalds nuggets, fries, and burgers are made to all taste the same. The author explains how corn is used in different meals at mcdonald's. That chicken nuggets are filled with tons of chemicals that can cause multiple health problems such as cancer. later on in the chapter breaks down the graph on childhood obesity and how we should all eat low on the food chain instead of high because it's more healthier.
An interesting fact was that 6 chicken nuggets from mcdonald's has twice as much fat as a regular hamburger. Question is what are chicken nuggets really made of? and how did they become so popular?
Chapter 10: Big Organic
   Summary: Companies are trying their best to no buy corn or any type of processed food. The companies are trying to which to organic foods because that is what people are mostly eating nowadays. They explain that people shop at farmers markets and places like whole foods because they claim that the food is better and more healthier for you. Something interesting that i read was how the author was in the store checking the labels of foods and reading the ingredients. the author believed that each food had a story to tell where it came from and what it is made out of. A good question that comes to mind while reading this is Why do stores like whole foods hold such a prestigious name? and Is the food really that good for you?