Corn and cancer

[moustress]

This is my first post in this forum, and I'm hoping someone will know more about this topic than I do.

I have been breeding fancy mice for about 12 years now and I have observed a cessation in the formation of tumors when I first reduced, and then eliminated corn and all things formulated with corn products. I vaguely remembering someone claiming that corn, when consumed uncooked, mixes with stomach acid, in mice, at least, to form a carcinogen. I suspect that this refers to nitrosamines. I know there are food combinations that can do this in humans.

Does anyone know more, or could someone direct me to a source for this kind of information.?

 

[Brutus04]

Damn...I really don't know. I was looking at some carpet this wknd made out of corn.

 

[brikis98]

Corn does bad things to the stomach of cows as well, making them sick, which is one of the reasons they pump them so full of antiobiotics. Cows were made to eat grass, not corn, and I suspect something similar may be true of mice as well. As for humans, it's not entirely clear. We're omnivores and can handle a much larger variety of food, but with corn, it's the lack of variety that's the problem.The vast majority of the stuff in the supermarket and fast food restaurants is made of or derived from corn these days, so if it is bad for us, we're all in a lot of trouble. If you wanna hear a lot more about corn, industrial farming, and the alternatives, I highly recommend reading Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: moustress
This is my first post in this forum, and I'm hoping someone will know more about this topic than I do.

I have been breeding fancy mice for about 12 years now and I have observed a cessation in the formation of tumors when I first reduced, and then eliminated corn and all things formulated with corn products. I vaguely remembering someone claiming that corn, when consumed uncooked, mixes with stomach acid, in mice, at least, to form a carcinogen. I suspect that this refers to nitrosamines. I know there are food combinations that can do this in humans.

Does anyone know more, or could someone direct me to a source for this kind of information.?

Might want to ask at Goosemoose, they may know more. I know dried corn can have a fungus that's dangerous for rats but I'm not sure about mice.

 

[Harvey]

Different answers for whole kernal corn and various corn products. Google is your friend. 🙂

 

[shubh09]

Cooked sweet corn unleashes a phenolic compound called ferulic acid, which provides health benefits, such as battling cancer. Sweet corn is very high in phenolics. Purple corn has even been shown able to shrink cancerous tumors. As the healing value of purple corn becomes apparent, researchers have jumped in to document its many benefits, and supplement companies have rolled out purple corn extracts.

 

[moustress]

I'm so pleased to get such a variety of replies. It's good old yellow field corn I'm talking about here. I know that most fruits and vegetables and nuts that are dark in color, i.e. brown, purple, black, etc. have tons of antioxidants in them as well as other good things.(I always secretly knew all that strong coffee was good for me!) I've Googled every way I could think of, but the only things I can read without paying, ($36.for one freaking article!!) refer to problems that don't seem to relate. I'm asking because, although I know corn causes cancer in mice, a mouse forum in Finland has an international section that I have posted on, and the Finn that moderates is giving me a hard time about not being able to give references on the subject. I know corn has been a problem for so many reasons, ancient civilizations have fallen because of dependence on corn monoculture due to pestilence, disease, etc. and corn products are indicted in the case of rising diabetes and obesity. I suspect that the problem with whole corn applies only to raw kernel corn, or I'd be dead, because I love popcorn and eat it almost every day. It's interesting and I should have realized that different colors of corn have different dietetic contents.