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Please take the time to read this article and then go to reference:

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What next to take some of the fun out of life.

This is a very good article and one which we all need to pay attention to if

we want to enhance our quality of life in our senior yrs. If we keep eating

this crap we won't have to worry about our senior yrs. Lucky for me I have

a wife who is a little more obsessed with what we eat then I am. Going

grocery shopping is not just walking down the isle throwing things in the

cart. Read the label................

MSG (a slow poison)

MSG The food additive MSG (Mono-Sodium Glutamate) is a slow poison. 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, 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 '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, swore 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, Mc's, '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 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

=f 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. They claim

it's safe to eat in any amount. But how can they claim it's safe when there

are hundreds of scientific studies with titles like these:

" 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.

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 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, 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?

If you are one of the few who can still believe that MSG is good for us and

you don't believe what 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 to this poison. Do your part in sending

this message out by word of mouth, e-mail, or by distribution of this

printout to your friends all over the world and stop this " Slow Poisoning of

Mankind " by the packaged food industry.

Blowing the whistle on MSG is our responsibility, so get the word out.

Don Prohaska

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