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May you live a long and prosperous life!

 

i was sent this article in an email and i thought it was appropriate to send it out in my blog…hope you liked it as much as i did.  reading it was making my body break out in hives like i do when i get too much of that stuff in my chinese takeout.

i am weaning myself of my addiction to yummy pho and shanghai noodle.  i remember coming back to the city 12 years ago and fearful of the amount of asian restaurants in vancouver bc.  i was right, i surcomed to the easy and tasty foods…my body had told me many times that it is not liking my habit of cheap asian foods.   here is what happens to me when i eat too much msg…

 

Below is an article that sent to me…i cannot verify that it is true…so lets pretend that it is a story… seriously.

Interesting reading makes one think what is going

into our mouths.. I had no idea that Hydrolyzed

Vegetable Protein was MSG!

Just goes to show, you have to be knowledgeable

and conscious of everything!

I’m especially interested in the part about headaches.

MSG hides behind 25 or more names, such as

Natural Flavoring.  MSG is even in your favorite

coffee from Tim Horton’s and Starbucks

coffee shops!I wondered if there could be an actual

chemical causing the massive obesity

epidemic, and so did a friend of mine,

John Erb. He was a research assistant

at the University of Waterloo in

Ontario, Canada, and spent years working

for the government. He made an amazing

discovery while going through scientific

journals for a book he was writing called

“The Slow Poisoning of America”.

In hundreds of studies around the world,

scientists were creating obese mice and

rats to use in diet or diabetes test studies.

No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese,

so scientists have to create them.

They make these creatures morbidly

obese by injecting them with MSG

when they are first born.

The MSG triples the amount of insulin

the pancreas creates, causing rats

(and perhaps humans) to become obese.

They even have a name for the fat rodents

they create: ‘MSG-Treated Rats.’

When I heard this, I was shocked.

I went into my kitchen and checked the

cupboards and the refrigerator.

MSG was in everything — the Campbell’s soups,

the Hostess Doritos, the Lays flavored potato

chips, Top Ramen, Betty Crocker Hamburger

Helper, Heinz canned gravy, Swanson frozen

prepared meals, and Kraft salad dressings,

especially the ‘healthy low-fat’ ones.

The items that didn’t have MSG marked

on the product label had something

called ‘Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein’

which is just another name for

Monosodium Glutamate.

It was shocking to see just how many of the

foods we feed our children everyday are filled

with this stuff. MSG is hidden under many

different names in order to fool those who

read the ingredient list, so that they

don’t catch on. (Other names for MSG are

‘Accent’, ‘Aginomoto’, ‘Natural Meat

Tenderizer,’ etc.) But it didn’t stop there.

 

When our family went out to eat,

we started asking at the restaurants

what menu items contained MSG.

Many employees, even the managers, s

wore they didn’t use MSG. But when

we ask for the ingredient list, which

they grudgingly provided,

sure enough, MSG and Hydrolyzed

Vegetable Protein were everywhere.

Burger King, McDonald’s, Wendy’s,

Taco Bell, every restaurant — even

the sit-down eateries like TGIF,

Chili’s, Applebee’s, and Denny’s —

use MSG in abundance.

Kentucky Fried Chicken seemed

to be the WORST offender: MSG was

in every chicken dish, salad dressing

and gravy. No wonder I loved to eat

that coating on the skin –

their secret spice was MSG!

So why is MSG in so many of the

foods we eat? Is it a preservative,

or a vitamin?

Not according to my friend John Erb.

In his book “The Slow Poisoning of

America”, he said that MSG is added

to food for the addictive effect it has

on the human body.

Even the propaganda website

sponsored by the food manufacturers

lobby group supporting MSG explains

that the reason they add it to food is to

make people eat more.A study of the elderly showed that

older people eat more of the foods

that it is added to. The Glutamate

Association lobbying group says

eating more is a benefit to the elderly,

but what does it do to the rest of us?

‘Betcha can’t eat [just] one,’ takes on

a whole new meaning where MSG is

concerned! And we wonder why the

nation is overweight!

MSG manufacturers themselves

admit that it addicts people to their

products. It makes people choose

their product over others, and makes

people eat more of it than they would

if MSG wasn’t added. Not only is MSG

scientifically proven to cause obesity,

it is an addictive substance.

Since its introduction into the

American food supply fifty years ago,

MSG has been added in larger and

larger doses to the pre-packaged

meals, soups, snacks, and fast foods

we are tempted to eat everyday.

The FDA has set no limits on how

much of it can be added to food.

”The monosodium glutamate (MSG) obese rat as a model for the study of exercise in obesity.” Gobatto CA, Mello MA, Souza CT , Ribeiro IA. Res Commun Mol Pathol Pharmacol. 2002.

”Adrenalectomy abolishes the food-induced hypothalamic serotonin release in both normal and monosodium glutamate-obese rats.”

Guimaraes RB, Telles MM, Coelho VB, Mori C, Nascimento CM, Ribeiro. Brain Res Bull. 2002 Aug.

”Obesity induced by neonatal monosodium glutamate treatment in spontaneously hypertensive rats: An animal model of multiple risk factors.” Iwase M, Yamamoto M, Iino K, Ichikawa K, Shinohara N, Yoshinari Fujishima Hypertens Res. 1998 Mar.

”Hypothalamic lesion induced by injection of monosodium glutamate in suckling period and subsequent development of obesity.” Tanaka K, Shimada M, Nakao K Kusunoki. Exp Neurol. 1978 Oct.

(Hypothalamic dysfunction is a problem with the region of the brain called the hypothalamus, which helps control the pituitary gland and regulate many body functions, particularly in response to stress. The pituitary, in turn, controls the:

*Adrenal glands,

*Ovaries

*Testes

*Thyroid gland)

No, the date of that last study was not a

typo; it was published in 1978. Both the

”medical research community” and

”food manufacturers” have known

about the side effects of MSG for decades.

Many more of the studies mentioned

in John Erb’s book link MSG to diabetes,

migraines and headaches, autism,

ADHD, and even Alzheimer’s.

So what can we do to stop the food

manufactures from dumping this

fattening and addictive MSG into

our food supply and causing the

obesity epidemic we now see?

Several months ago, John Erb took

his book and his concerns to one of

the highest government health

officials in Canada . While he was

sitting in the government office,

the official told him, ‘Sure, I know

how bad MSG is. I wouldn’t touch

the stuff.’ But this top-level

government official refuses to tell

the public what he knows.

The big media doesn’t want to tell

the public either, fearing issues

with their advertisers. It seems

that the fallout on the fast food

industry may hurt their profit margin.

The food producers and restaurants

have been addicting us to their

products for years, and now we are

paying the price for it. Our children

should not be cursed with obesity

caused by an addictive food additive.

But what can I do about it? I’m just

one voice! What can I do to stop the

poisoning of our children, while our

governments are insuring financial

protection for the industry that

is poisoning us?

This message is going out to everyone

I know in an attempt to tell you the

truth that the corporate-owned

politicians and media won’t tell you.

The best way you can help to save

yourself and your children from

this drug-induced epidemic is to

forward this article to everyone.

With any luck, it will circle the

globe before politicians can pass

the legislation protecting those

who are poisoning us.

The food industry learned a lot from the

tobacco industry. Imagine if big tobacco

had a bill like this in place before someone

blew the whistle on nicotine and the

thousands of chemicals that were or

are still in the wrapper?

If you are one of the few who can

still believe that MSG is good for

us and you don’t believe what

John Erb has to say, see for yourself.

Go to the National Library of Medicine

at www.pubmed.com.. Type in the

words ‘MSG Obese’ and read a few

of the 115 medical studies that appear.

We the public do not want to be rats

in one giant experiment, and we do

not approve of food that makes us

into a nation of obese, lethargic,

addicted sheep, feeding the food

industry’s bottom line while

waiting for the heart transplant,

the diabetic induced amputation,

blindness, or other obesity-induced,

life-threatening disorders.

With your help we can put an end

so there you have it…just spread this info out!