- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: April 8, 2011
![Americans eat so much corn,](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/anrnews/blogfiles/6677small.jpg)
Americans eat so much corn, "we're like corn chips walking," says a UC Berkeley scientist.
With the possible exception of stone tools and fire, food technologies have done more harm than good to human health, according to an article in yesterday's Los Angeles Times.
The story was based on a research review published by a Boston physician in the current Journal of the American Medical Association, which traced food technology from pre-historic times to the present. The stone tools that made it possible for humans to hunt large animals and the fire that made meat safe allowed humans to evolve large brains.
The development of...
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