MSG epidemic

[Guest guest]

Slow Poison – MSG is in Coffee and Nearly Everything!

I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the

massive obesity epidemic. 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 the scientists have to create them. They make these

morbidly obese creatures by injecting them with MSG when they are first

born. The MSG triples the amount of insulin the pancreas creates;

causing rats (and humans?) to become obese. They even have a title for

the fat rodents they create: MSG-Treated Rats.

I was shocked. I went to my kitchen, checking the cupboards

and the fridge. 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, 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. They hide MSG under many different names in order to fool those

who carefully read the ingredient list, so they don't catch on. (Other

names for MSG: '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 had 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, Mcs, 's,

Taco Bell, every restaurant, even the sit down ones like TGIF, Chilis',

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 may of the foods we eat? Is it a

preservative or a vitamin? Not according to my friend, . In the

book he wrote, an expose' of the food additive industry called The

Slow Poisoning of America , he said that MSG is added to food for

the addictive effect it has on the human body. (http://www.spof

america.com) 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 people eat more of the

foods to which MSG is added. The Glutamate Association lobby group says

eating more benefits 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?

The 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 can be added to food.

They claim it's safe to eat in any amount. How can they claim it 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.)

Yes, that last study was not a typo, it WAS written in 1978.

Both the medical research community and food manufacturers

have known about MSG's side effects for decades! Many more studies

mentioned in Erb's book link MSG to diabetes, migraines and

headaches, autism, ADHD and even alzheimer's.

What can we do to stop the food manufacturers from dumping

fattening and addictive MSG into our food supply and causing the

obesity epidemic we now see? 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!

Several months ago, Erb took his book and his concerns

to one of the highest government health officials in Canada. While

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 refused to tell the public what he knew.

The big media doesn't want to tell the public either, fearing legal

issues with their advertisers. It seems that the fallout on 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!

The best way you can help to save yourself and your children

from this drug-induced epidemic, is to forward this email 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?

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, 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 print-out to all 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, get the word

out.

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 and read a few of the 115 medical studies that

appear.

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Ilanit

Ms Ilanit Tof

B.A. (Psychophysiology/Psychology)

Advanced Diploma Healing with Wholefoods

PhD Holistic Nutrition (candidate)

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