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3/18/04 - Hidden MSG causes Obesity

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Alert (please pass on)

How processed foods will make you fat even if you don't overeat!

It made me really sad when I heard recently that the House had passed a billed

making it illegal to sue fast food restaurants for obesity and all the related

ills that come from it. We have been sold down the river and this is going to

directly affect you, your kids, your grand kids and just about all of the people

we know and love. They are in effect circling the wagons.

Here is what is at stake. 350,000 people die each year from obesity related

illnesses. 450,000 die from smoking. But as our level of health deteriorates

soon obesity related deaths will outstrip the smoking deaths. We are reaching a

point at which the future generation will not live as long as their grandparents

did in spite of all the marvels of scientific medical advancement.

At the core of this obesity problem is MSG. MSG is not an herb nor is it a

spice; it is a drug designed to addict us to junk foods. MSG is shorthand for

processed free glutamic acic, i.e., glutamic acid that has been manufactured or

freed from protein through processing or bacterial fermentation. It is a toxic

substance. It can be used without disclosure. If you have not read the lab

reports on MSG then you will probably not be aware that it is present in most of

the processed foods and meats that we eat. It is present in everything from baby

foods to most of the foods that we eat in restaurants.

On the corporate level the people who engineer processed foods have read the

lab reports and they know just what a deadly poison MSG is. They know the

devastating effect that it has on brain chemistry. They know what it does to the

pancreas and they have studies showing the results that MSG has had on lab

animals resulting in everything from diabetes and obesity to uncontrollable

violence. Instead of stopping the use of MSG they have lobbied to change the

labeling laws. They now have over 15 different names that they can put on the

label to mislead you so that you don't even know that you are eating MSG. These

include " natural flavors " , " glutamic acid " and " glutamate " .

The active ingredient in MSG is Glutamic Acid which is an amino acid (protein)

present naturally in a lot of foods including fruits and vegetables. It is also

present in our brain chemistry where it acts as a neuro transmitter carrying

messages from the brain to neuro receptors throughout our body. The processed

form of Glutamic Acid, a form of MSG, is an excitotoxin. It is so concentrated

that it over-stimulates the neuro pathways to the point of literally burning

them out.

The reason that the processed food industry is so in love with this drug is

that it makes even cheap food taste irresistible. If you had two food products

and they both had the same exact ingredients in them but only one had MSG and

the other didn't you would choose the one with MSG saying that it tasted better.

In short no one in the processed food industry can afford to stop using MSG and

stay in business unless everybody stops using it.

In America we have two lines of defense that are supposed to protect us from

this type of corporate greed. One is the doctors. Through the AMA and the FDA

they have a huge amount of power. They have basically sold us down the river.

There is no limit as to how much MSG a company can put in our food. And the

foods with the highest levels of MSG are the foods that are marketed to our

kids. And if you do a chart showing the rise of Childhood Diabetes you will see

that as our level of consumption of MSG-loaded food increases so has the rate of

Childhood Diabetes.

Here is a brief overview of how MSG relates directly to Childhood Diabetes and

Diabetes in general. In the pancreas there are many Glutamic Acid neuro

receptors. When we have an excess of Glutamic Acid in our system then the

pancreas starts working overtime. At first it creates an excess of insulin which

then races through the body rounding up all of the blood sugar and turning it

into fat deposits. This form of obesity is the first stage of Childhood

Diabetes. Then the pancreas which is totally overworked just burns out. Now you

have full blown Childhood Diabetes. Diabetes is not a disease it is a multi

billion dollar industry. And it is totally preventable.

I have a friend who is obese and yet he eats less than I do. He is a starving

student living on Top Ramen (loaded with MSG). So many people are becoming obese

without even overeating, just from consuming foods high in MSG on a daily basis.

How can we take " personal responsibility " for our weight when we are being

deceived and lied to by the processed food industry? By the way, Kraft Foods and

many other major foods companies are now owned by , the tobacco

industry giant. These are companies that specialize in making fortunes through

addicting the public to their products. It is their business model.

I totally believe that in the current political, medical, corporate climate,

the best interests of a whole generation have been sold out. This is not rocket

science. All you have to to is look around you. Half of all US adults are

overweight and so are a third of all US children and youth. So many people have

been robbed of their quality of life by those who were placed in positions to

protect them.

The second line of defense is the lawyers who are like the watch dogs of

corporate greed. And that is why I was so upset today when they passed that

bogus law, because they are trying to make sure that the lawyers can't even

begin to bring about the law suits that should be being filed all over the

country as we speak.

And the issue of Glutamic Acid has never even been brought up. The agencies

who are supposed to help us know how to eat better are pushing low fat processed

foods as the answer. They are barking up the totally wrong tree. Fats are one of

the main nutrients that our foods supply us with. Without Omega Fatty Acids our

brains cannot function. Eating raw healthy fats does not make us overweight. In

order for us to have a well balanced diet we need Fats, Proteins, and

Carbohydrates. Plus water. If you mess with any of these basic food groups then

you have an imbalance in your diet that will manifest itself as a serious

illness sooner or later; an imbalance which the doctors will then treat with

drugs and surgery.

The thing that upsets me more than anything else is the fact that they were

putting MSG in baby foods in the 1950s and Congress passed a law making it

illegal to put MSG in baby foods. So that means that they have known about the

horrendous side effects of MSG since the 1950s. So why didn't they make it

illegal to put it in all of the nation's food supply? What the baby food

companies did was start putting Glutamic Acid in the baby food using different

labeling because they noticed that when the baby food had Glutamic Acid in it

that the babies would eat one spoon after another. And when they would add the

Glutamic Acid in different forms they would print on the label " NO MSG ADDED " .

(Perhaps cooked food tastes so bad to us when we start out fresh in life that we

need to add MSG to get babies to eat it at all).

When we find ourselves under attack by this type of Machiavellian Processed

Food Industry that has not only poisoned but drugged our nation's food supply

then we must one and all answer the Clarion's Call.

The below is from truthinlabeling.org

These are some of the ways of hiding MSG in a product label:

Glutamate Glutamic acid Gelatin

Monosodium glutamate Calcium caseinate Textured protein

Monopotassium glutamate Sodium caseinate Yeast nutrient

Yeast extract Yeast food Autolyzed yeast Hydrolyzed protein

(any protein that is hydrolyzed) Hydrolyzed corn gluten

These OFTEN contain MSG or create MSG during processing:

Carrageenan Maltodextrin Malt extract

Natural pork flavoring Citric acid Malt flavoring

Bouillon and Broth Natural chicken flavoring Soy protein isolate

Natural beef flavoring Ultra-pasteurized Soy sauce

Stock Barley malt Soy sauce extract

Whey protein concentrate Pectin Soy protein

Whey protein Protease Soy protein concentrate

Whey protein isolate Protease enzymes Anything protein fortified

Flavors(s) & Flavoring(s) Anything enzyme modified Anything fermented

Natural flavor(s)

& flavoring(s) Enzymes anything Seasonings

(the word " seasonings " )

Please feel free to pass this on to the people you care about.

In Health,

Jinjee and Storm

http://www.thegardendiet.com

Eat Raw and Thrive

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