Sticking with the corn in modern diets theme, this was just published:

A.H. Jahren, R.A. Kraft*. 2008. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in fastfood: Signatures of corn and confinement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(46), 17855-17860. doi: 10.1073 pnas.0809870105.



Dr. Scott Werts
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Winthrop University
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stable Isotope Geochemistry on behalf of Marilyn Fogel
Sent: Thu 1/22/2009 4:58 PM
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Subject: [ISOGEOCHEM] Corn Influenced Diet Shifts?
 
Dear Folks,

I received this message from a colleague who is teaching students  
about the influence of corn. Do any of you alert readers have a  
reference at your fingertips that you could recommend for Charlie?

"Next Tuesday Washington College is hosting a viewing of the movie "King
Corn," which is a critique of the use of corn products in our country  
(see
description below).

One of the most fascinating things I heard about this issue was in one  
of
your talks: The stable isotope evidence that Europeans coming to the US
experience a shift in their carbon isotope ratios in response to the
corn-heavy diet.  Does that data appear in publication anywhere? I would
love to bring that up at the viewing of this movie during the discussion
period."

Marilyn Fogel


Dr. Marilyn L. Fogel
Geophysical Laboratory
Carnegie Institution of Washington
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