Jimmy Crack and Corn
Posted by MrG | Filed under Editorial
I too tend to think the ADD/ADHD thing is a condition that we have caused in our children. And I think that the problem lays at the feet – wait for it, wait for it – of corn.
“What?!?” you say. Allow me to explain.
The United States produces 50% of the world’s corn. This is no accident. The government developed a program at the end of World War II that gave farmers incentives to plant at least 80% of their crop as corn. The government guaranteed prices and developed the infrastructure and technology to use this crop outside of the “butter-and-salt” of a backyard Barbaque. This allowed the US to cheaply establish a food reserve in case those lousy Russians tried to invade or we were under siege.Â
The government also developed the current strain of maize that makes it to your dinner table. With this hearty crop, we developed a way to make sugar (Corn syrup) and fed the left-overs to our livestock. Step back and take a look at your typical meal and you’ll start to realize that a large chunk of the vittles in our nation’s cornucopia derive from corn, an amazing 65% of what goes into the typical American diet. Corn metabolizes into sugar quickly and easily. When you eat corn, you are basically eating “sugar-on-the-cob”. When you eat a McDonalds burger, you are eating a cow who spent it’s life eating corn. When you drink your soda or your Budweiser, you are drinking corn.Â
Corn in itself isn’t a bad food. But as with anything, too much and you start to have problems. Add in the effect of technology, economic factors (2 income households:absent parents), and environmental conditions (plastics, chemical exposures, etc.) to a kid jacked up on sugar and you get kids that are hard to handle. You take them to your Pediatrician and describe you problems, the behavior modifications attempted, all with the exhausted eyes of a parent and BAM your kid is on some cocktail of heavy meds.Â
I believe ADHD/ADD are severely over-diagnosed (I’ve heard as much as 95% over diagnosed) and our reliance on little-understood brain medications give me pause. I don’t think that messing with brain chemistry of our children is good idea. I have seen ADHD kids (friends of my son) and they’re frightening to watch and I really don’t want my kid around these 6 year old crackheads. I watch as the parents angrily yell at their kid for some slight indiscretion or promise a sugary snack to bribe the kid to behave. No wonder these parents have wild kids. “If you don’t behave, I’ll beat you and if you do behave, I’ll give you a fix.”Â
Corn is kid crack.
Finally, the blog
Posted by MrG | Filed under Administrative Comment
Welcome to the final home of my production blog for MrGonz Productions. It’s been a busy week, arriving on a final design template for my business website. And finally getting the word press software installed on this sub-domain of forddesign.net.Â
Whew! In the end, I have to give my host some serious props. Initially I had to wait for phone help, but this didn’t take long. And to think that was a Monday! When I got to a support person, not only did he get my SSH questions handled, he steered me in the right direction for installing the WordPress software. In-and-out, the whole episode lasted 5 min according to my phone log. I must recommend Bluehost to anyone looking for a host.
The additional reason I put this here is because I promised my brother that I would help him do the same. I thought it would kill two birds with one stone to go through the steps myself. And it sure did. I’m ready to get my brother’s Wordpress blog up and running.Â
In addition, I have a new production that I will unveiling here soon. It will be an interactive whoopty-woo so you can take part. And as much as I would like it to be a 15 min reel in the can, it’s something a little less involved. I’d love to talk it up more, but I first must copyright the idea. It’s that cool.
Anyway – as I stated before – I will attempt to concentrate on this webpage with all the news you might want to know about the goings on of this intrepid digital media designer.
Oh, one more thing. I will answer tech questions here for anyone interested. The registration here involves very little, so I have set the commenting to registered users only. I will attempt to use the 1st Amendment as a template as far as exercising editorial control. Say what you want, just be respectful. Assume this as a 18+ only blog. Further rules to be posted I see the need arise.
When I finalize the “theme” (or CSS for those in the know) for both websites, I will apply it here. I might change it soon just so it doesn’t look so WordPress-y. Keep an eye out!
MrG
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