MSG....Re: Mindset of treating our health problems..

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Vanadeux wrote:

>I am guilty of this too!

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>We sometimes think that we can do our cleansings and then return to standard

american or English diet..which tends to have a fair amount of junk content.

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I've been assuming for years that food companies put something fattening

and addictive in the food and low and behold it's good old fashiong

monosodium glutmate (MSG) aka Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein. Search for

other articles and backing for this... After my first attack I cut down

on my major offender - milk products -- 90%, and have lost 40 lbs, with

another 40 to good for good health. Now that I know this my gall

bladder and my weight will benefit!

Carol

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www.citizenshealth.org

Slow Poisoning of America

by Donna

I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive

obesity epidemic, so did Erb, a friend of mine. He was a research

assistant at the University of Waterloo, 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 race of fat rodents they create: " MSG-Treated Rats " .

MSG? I was shocked too. I went to my kitchen, checking the cupboards and

the ridge. 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 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 catch on.

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', Applebees 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!

Why is MSG in so many 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.

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 elderly people showed that people eat

more of the foods once 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 prepackaged 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. How can they claim it is 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 RC, Nascimento CM, RibeiroBrain

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, written in 1978, was not a typo. Both the medical

research community and food manufacturers have known MSG's side effects

for decades! [Does MSG cross the placental barrier or become a

constituent of breast milk?]

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: http://www.pubmed.com. Type in the

words " MSG Obese " , and read a few of the 115 medical studies that appear.

Many studies mentioned in Erb's book link MSG to diabetes,

migraines and other headaches, autism, ADD/HD and even Alzheimer's.

But what can we do to stop the food manufactures from dumping fattening,

addictive and brain damaging MSG into our food supply and causing the

obesity epidemic we now see? And, perhaps causing or contributing to the

coinciding epidemic of depression?(Remember the studies above that

mentions serotonin and hypothalamic lesions.

Even as you read this, W. Bush and his corporate supporters are

pushing a bill through Congress. Called the " Personal Responsibility in

Food Consumption Act " , also known as the " Cheeseburger Bill " . This

sweeping law bans anyone from suing food manufacturers, sellers, and

distributors, even if it comes out that they purposely added an

addictive chemical to their foods.

The bill has already been rushed through the House of Representatives,

and is due for the same rubber stamp at Senate level. It is important

that Bush and his corporate supporters get it through before the media

lets everyone know about MSG, the intentional Nicotine for food.

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 the fast

food industry may hurt their profit margin.

So what do we do? 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, and maybe brain damage

causing depression, 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 guys like Bush are insuring

financial protection for the industry that is poisoning us? Blow the

whistle on MSG.

I am sending this email out to everyone I know in an attempt to show you

the truth that the corporate-owned politicians and media won't tell you,

and hope that enough people are successful in forwarding it to those who

can expose this insidious evil before Bush can pass the bill protecting

those who have knowingly poisoned us.

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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 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, depressed,

addicted sheep, waiting for the slaughter.

With your help we can put an end to this, and stop the Slow Poisoning of

America. Let's save our children.

Donna , Legislative Advocate

donna@...

California Citizens for Health Freedom

8048 Mamie Avenue, Oroville CA 95966-8412

Phone: 1.530.534.9758

www.citizenshealth.org

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