Is Corn Making Us Fat?

Fritz,Sandy

Junior Scholastic

February 8th, 2010

National

Pg.5

Dose corn Make us fat? Almost all of the food that we eat has corn in it."There are some 45,000 items in the average supermarket","More than a quarter of them contain corn." writes author Michael Pollan. A meal from Mc.Donald's is Fast Food, The beef has been corn-fed and the soda has high Fructose corn syrup,and the french fries have been fried in corn syrup. Because of Reproduced corns high sugar and calories 60% of Americans are Obese and Overweight. Since corn makes us obese and overweight so it can be deadly.Obesity can lead to heart disease, high blood pressure,and diabetes. In the early 1970s , the government told the farmers to tried to convince farmers to grow more corn to make it cheep.Humans can't eat the cheapest corn,but they can feed it to cows,pigs,and chicken. Fast food chains and Food marketers now maximize profits by supervising portions. "Americans demand cheep food,and that's what they're getting. Americans are looking at the advantage of Eating healthy for example the White House has a vegetable and Ian kimmle,16,of Linwood,New Jersey,is teaching kids how to cook with fresh ingredients.

I fell that This article is completely correct corn is making us fat. It's different when we east corn on the cob or just corn off the cob, than when you eat fast food. I think that it's better for us in the long run if we don't eat so much corn. I also think that the government should not tell farmers to grow so much cheep corn because when they say we cant eat cheep corn so then they feed it to the animals that we eat and we are still technically eating cheep corn, and that they farmers should have the animals be grass fed because it is better for the animal and it is better for humans.The more people start to eat healthy the less likely they will not become obese and or overweight.

1. When you read this article dose it make you want to cut back on your corn intake and eat healthier?
2. Do you think that animals should be corn-fed or grass-fed?
   

Romeo and juliet

Capulet Thou Art To Blameth!

Capulet's control issues and mixed messages were the reasons for Romeo and Juliet's death. In the beginning of the book Paris came to Capulet and asked him if he could have Juliet's hand in marriage and my first thought when Paris said that"younger than she are happy than mothers made."line#13 pg.27 was that Capulet would make Juliet marry Paris and not care if she liked him or not. But he didn't he said "And too soon marred are those so early made, Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she; she's the hopeful lady of my earth. And my will to her consent is but a part." This means that he feels that she is too young to get married and he doesn't want Juliet to marry too soon and that his permission is only part of her decision,and he just wants her to be happy with whoever she would like to be with.

Capulet also did not do anything bad to Romeo when he came to the masked ball party at his house and when Tybalt wanted to kick him out hurt and or kill him, Capulet's said "Content thee, gentle coz. Let him alone, He bears him like a portly gentleman,And, to say truth, Verona brags of him to be a virtuous and well-governed youth." Capulet's telling Tybalt to calm down and tells him that he seems like a gentleman and that his reputation in Verona is that he is a well behaved, nice, young man.

Then things start to change after Tybalt killed Mercutio, then Romeo killed Tybalt.Then Capulet's did not like Romeo any more, because he killed his cousin. He also changed his mind from letting Juliet choose who she wanted to be with to not caring at all. For example Capulet Say's "Things have falling out, sir, so unluckily,hath we have had no time to move our daughter. Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,And so did I. Well, we were born to die. 'Tis very late. She’ll not come down tonight. I promise you, but for your company,I would have been abed an hour ago." This means that Capulet is telling Paris that they want her to marry Paris and that they haven't convinced her yet and that he promises her to him.

Now Capulet has made it so his daughter is miserable because he is now not letting her choose, not asking her what she wants to do but commanding her and threatening her. For example Capulet says, "Thank me no thinking's, nor proud me no proud, But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next to go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church,or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither out, you green sickness, carrion! Out, you baggage! You tallow face!" Capulet is saying that Juliet is ungrateful for what he has done for her and that she is going to marry Paris and he will drag her there and then he calls her all of these horrible names.

Over all Capulet made it so Juliet wanted to kill herself because he threatened to kick her out of their house and kill her if she didn't marry Paris even though he had already said that she could marry the man that she wanted to marry. Capulet is to blame for the death of Mercutio and Tybalt and Romeos banishment was because of him, because during Capulet's party Tybalt was trying to make Romeo leave and Capulet was saying that if he said one more thing that he would kill him so that made Tybalt want to kill Romeo which made Mercutio want to kill Tybalt and then it turned out being that two people were dead and Romeo was banished all because of Capulet.

~Lily