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To: chris714 who wrote (6056)	8/18/2008 8:37:11 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 17048

Sybarite's allergy to corn itself is due to the fact that Monsanto GMO corn is most probably is a low grade environmental poison. It can kill rats fed a diet of it. I still believe it may have something to do with SABD..sudden adult bee death.. I am not sure maize falls into the same category. Corn based diets can be deleterious to health despite some corn's beneficial content of inositol hexaphosphate, an anti tumourogenic substance. The North American Indian, when he wasn't out chasing buffalo on horseback, in the popular imagination, subsisted on a staple diet of cultivated corn, beans and squash/vine plants with added plant matter. It is apparent that a group of say 3000 people in one camp could not subsist very long on local birds, rabbits and rodents. Just about everywhere early settlers went they found Indians introducing them to plants that they harvested. Hill corn was the Indian's term for their plantations. They planted there because grassy hills formed natural clearings. In the woods they spread seeds of vine plants like pumpkin and squash. Depending on the environment this lifestyle was found commonly throughout the Americans from the highly organized agriculture of the Pueblos, Cheyenne, Huron, Penobscot, Toltec, Aztec, Maya, Tupac and Queychua. We tend to focus on highly woods dependent groups who followed deer(Caribou) herds like the Chippewayan, Cree and later the Sioux etc.. but these were the exception to the rule. When in certain areas (Southern US) his dependence on corn grew predominant, it became evident that his health waned. He suffered dental caries, bone loss and early death from a variety of diseases. Depletion of the nutrients of and overdependence on ever more nutrient depleted corn, even nixtamilized vitamin enriched corn, led in part to the decline of Mayan civilization. Most Indians were big meat eaters when they had to be. This habit varied widely and depended on their ability to be able to chase certain vast North American herds. When the group wintered they could not depend on meat stores. After the white man came, and the horse was introduced the heyday of the plains Indian and his buffalo meat eating lifestyle began. Before that he lacked the ability to chase and kill enough animals often enough for these animals to become staples. In the SW desert, the Apache had to be a meagre hunter gatherer. They ate what animals they could but could not depend on any one species. Their relatives the Pueblos stayed put and grew vines, corn and beans. Many others did. Our picture of the NA Indian on horseback ranging about the prairie, intercepting bison/buffalo is a post Columbian artifact. EC<:-}