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[Michaelangelica]

The Shocking Dangers of MSG You Don’t Know - Articles

The Shocking Dangers of MSG You Don’t Know

POSTED BY
Dr. Mercola
August 28 2007

A silent killer that’s worse than alcohol, nicotine, and drugs is likely lurking your kitchen cabinets and even your child’s school cafeteria. It’s monosodium glutamate (MSG), a flavor enhancer that’s known widely as an addition to Chinese food, but that’s actually added to thousands of the foods you eat.

In this telling three-part video series, you’ll find out why Dr. Russell Blaylock, a board-certified neurosurgeon, describes MSG as a dangerous excitotoxin, and learn how this toxin could be making you fat.
Part 1
Part 2
FucoTHIN
Part 3
Dr. Mercola
MSG is used in countless foods in your supermarket, local restaurants, school cafeterias, and more. Everything from soup to crackers to meats may contain it because MSG, as dangerous as it is, makes food taste good and it is dirt cheap, just like sugar.

Incredibly, even infant formulas and baby food contain this poison, even though babies and infants, who are four times more sensitive than adults to the toxic effects of this chemical, are the most at risk.

There are a couple of main reasons why MSG is one of the worst food additives on the market. First, as Dr. Blaylock, author of the highly recommended Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills, says in the video, MSG is an excitotoxin, which means that it overexcites your cells to the point of damage, acting as a poison. The second part of the equation is that MSG can be literally hidden in food labels, under names like broth, casein, hydrolyzed, autolyzed, and more, making it extremely difficult to identify.

MSG is also a probable cause contributing to the obesity epidemic. As the FDA continues to vouch for its safety, scientists have known that MSG causes obesity since the 1960s!

It is clearly not worth a few bites of tasty junk food to give your body the green light to produce visceral fat, the most dangerous type that surrounds your organs and increases your risk of heart attack, stroke, insomnia, type 2 diabetes, and more.

Yet, that is exactly what you’re doing when you eat foods that contain MSG.

Eliminating MSG from your diet is a wise choice for everyone, including pregnant women. To do so, stick to natural, unprocessed foods. And, if you do eat processed foods, be on the lookout for the many hidden names for MSG on food labels. They include (but are far from limited to):

* Gelatin
* Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP)
* Yeast Extract
* Malted Barley
* Rice Syrup or Brown Rice Syrup

The dangers surrounding MSG are, perhaps, most concerning for new moms who are unable to breastfeed, and are looking for an alternative to the MSG-laden infant formulas on the market. Fortunately, women who are unable to breastfeed can make an extremely nutritious, MSG-free infant formula for their baby using raw milk.

nergymaster
said:
August 30, 2007
Allow me to give a brief history of how MSG came to be discovered and perverted into what it now is.

MSG, the sodium salt of the amino acid glutamic acid and a form of glutamate, has no distinct taste of its own, and how it adds flavor to other foods is not fully understood.

Asians had originally used the “kombu” seaweed’s broth as a flavor enhancer, without understanding that glutamic acid was its flavor-enhancing component. In 1908, a multi-million-dollar industry was born when Professor Kikunae Ikeda of the University of Tokyo isolated monosodium glutamate using kombu. He noted that the Glutamate had a distinctive taste, different from sweet, sour, bitter and salty; he gave this taste the name “umami”. Umami, translates roughly to savory or meaty in the English language.

In 1909 MSG entered the marketplace as Aji-no-moto, a product so successful the company reorganized itself around the substance. At this point MSG was not poisonious. .

A slow and costly extraction process was used to produce MSG until 1956, when the Japanese succeeded in producing glutamic acid by means of fermentation, and large-scale production of MSG began.

This is the excitotoxin we now know as MSG....different than the original seaweed extractive originally discovered.

Today, the Ajinomoto Group’s 15 factories supply about one third of the 1.5 million-tons of MSG sold annually.

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I have personally witnessed people having a MSG reaction, don't believe the FDA,

[Michaelangelica]

A well written comprehensive article on the MSG problem
AFPA Articles and Newsletters » MSG: Food For Though But Not For Eating

MSG: Food For Though But Not For Eating
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One of the things that makes diagnosis of MSG sensitivity extremely difficult is the different reaction times experienced by different people. Some people eat MSG and react immediately. Some react as late as 48 hours after ingesting MSG.
A second consideration is the fact that reactions are dose related. Jeannette can not tolerate even the smallest amount of MSG without having a reaction. However, Pat tolerates small amounts, but reacts to MSG when she ingests four grams or more in any one meal.
How many people are sensitive to MSG? H. Schaumburg, writing in the late 60’s and early 70’s, estimated that approximately 30% of our population suffered adverse reactions when fed MSG in an ordinary diet at levels readily available on a given day.

Other independent researchers confirmed his observations.

[freeztar]

The last two times I've eaten asian food (chinese and Japanese), I had a reaction about 1 hour later. My ears turned red and hot. My face felt flush. Worst of all, my breathing was constricted. It felt as though I could not take in enough air. The symptoms continued all the way to bedtime.

So I think I may have MSG sensitivity, but I'm going to do a few more trials before I accept that. Japanese food is my favorite.
If I am allergic to it, then I guess I'll just have to deal with it because there's no way I could deprive myself of Japanese food.

[DougF]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

A well written comprehensive article on the MSG problem
AFPA Articles and Newsletters » MSG: Food For Though But Not For Eating

Thanks for this link Michaelangelica,
I'm amazed that this is still in the food products we eat.

How many people are sensitive to MSG? H. Schaumburg, writing in the late 60’s and early 70’s, estimated that approximately 30% of our population suffered adverse reactions when fed MSG in an ordinary diet at levels readily available on a given day.

But that’s not the half of it. Under FDA regulation, hydrolyzed protein may be included in various products with no mention of the hydrolyzed protein. The information we have at this time tells us that broth, bouillon, stock, flavoring, natural flavoring, natural flavors, and a whole host of products called natural chicken flavoring, natural turkey flavoring, etc. contain MSG insinuated into the product through the use of some form of hydrolyzed protein. So MSG sensitive people who know about the hiding of MSG are afraid to eat any product that has “flavoring” or “natural flavoring” in it, for example, even though it might be MSG-free. As a result, the grocery shelf, the refrigerator, and the freezer case, contain very little that a sensitive person can be sure is free of MSG.

Further, the amount of MSG found in food today is growing. It is found in most soups, salad dressings, and processed meats; in some crackers, bread, canned tuna fish, most frozen entrees, ice cream, and frozen yogurt. Lately we’ve seen it included in the new “low fat” foods. That makes sense because if you remove the flavor provided by the fat, you have to put back the flavor, and that, some say, calls for MSG.

MSG is used widely in food to enhance food’s flavor. You will find it, in one form or another, in almost all processed or otherwise manufactured food. Instead of making chicken soup with a whole chicken, use half a chicken and a little MSG; you get a big chicken taste and save some money. Unfortunately, about 30 per cent of our population experiences one or more adverse reactions, along with the savings and explosion of taste, when they use MSG.

We are putting less food and more additives in the things we eat,
This sounds like a movie have you seen the 1973 movie Soylent Green?
Soylent Green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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[Michaelangelica]

It is surprising
Even more surprising that they keep inventing new words for it.

"Soylent Green" sounds like my kind of movie.

[OldBill]

To paraphrase Henny Youngman: 'When I read about the evils of MSG, I gave up reading.'

[Michaelangelica]

No government, chemical or food company really wants to take the many adverse environmental health effects, we are constantly exposed to, seriously do they?

I've mentioned this before.
If it was cannabis or aspirin there would be a huge hue and cry

Rats subjected to monosodium glutamate (MSG) administration during the neonatal period present chronic neuroendocrine dysfunction associated with marked cognitive deficits.

ScienceDirect - Brain Research Bulletin : Deficit in hippocampal long-term potentiation in monosodium glutamate-treated rats

[Michaelangelica]

What is really going on here do you think
(Also check out "Depression (Clinical)" thread and magnesium supplements !?)

Piracetam - the original nootropic
Reducing dosage, or taking magnesium supplements (300-500mg/day), which reduce neural activity, will frequently alleviate such "overstimulation" effects. Persons consuming large amounts of MSG (monosodium glutamate) and/or aspartame in their diet should be cautious in using Piracetam, as should those who are highly sensitive to MSG-laden food (the "Chinese restaurant syndrome").

piracetam (smart drug) article by James South


They eat more or they don't?
Just say it!

This effect on meal time food selection replicates earlier observations made on elderly persons. It is suggested that manipulating palatability of various foods within a meal, and especially by using MSG, is an efficient way to affect food selection in the meal, without inducing hyperphagia.

Monosodium Glutamate Affects Mealtime Food Selection In Diabetic Patients

[Michaelangelica]

this was from avery interesting website with lots of good, detailed, long articles on health matters.
AFPA Articles and Newsletters » MSG: Food For Though But Not For Eating

. . .researchers have found a relationship between MSG and some of the dreaded neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, Parkinsonism, Huntington’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease, which all affect the elderly. Scientists used to think that in adults, brain cells were protected from invasion of MSG. Now, however, researchers realize that there are at least five areas in the brain that are not well protected.

What are the symptoms?
Symptoms of MSG are many and varied. In fact, so many different symptoms occur that people often question how one substance could cause such diverse reactions.
The answer lies in the fact that MSG is a neurotropic drug (a substance that effects the nervous system).
If you realize that valium, which is a popular neurotropic drug, may produce a wide variety of side effects, you should not be surprised that the same is true of MSG. MSG-sensitive people have reported numerous reactions, including

• simple skin rash,
• bloating, fatigue,
• joint pain,
• shortness or breath,
• chest pain,
• severe gastric distress,
• diarrhoea,
• asthma type symptoms,
• exercise induced asthma,
• headache, migraine headache,
• irregular heart beat, atrial fibrillation,
• rapid heart beat (called tachycardia),
• nausea and vomiting,
• anxiety attacks,
• depression, hyperactivity in children,
• mood swings,
• mouth lesions,
• flushing, and
• tremors.

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Dosage
Some people eat MSG and react immediately.
Some react as late as 48 hours after ingesting MSG.
A second consideration is the fact that reactions are dose related.
Jeannette can not tolerate even the smallest amount of MSG without having a reaction.
However, Pat tolerates small amounts, but reacts to MSG when she ingests four grams or more in any one meal.
. . .
How many people are sensitive to MSG?
H. Schaumburg, writing in the late 60’s and early 70’s, estimated that approximately 30% of our population suffered adverse reactions when fed MSG in an ordinary diet at levels readily available on a given day.

Other independent researchers confirmed his observations.
Those studies were followed by studies sponsored by the glutamate industry which purported to demonstrate that no more than 1-2% of the population might be sensitive to MSG.
Those industry- sponsored studies were methodologically inadequate, statistically unsound, and came to conclusions which did not follow from the results of the studies.
Unfortunately, the amount of MSG readily available in food has grown to such proportions that we would now expect more than 30% of the population to suffer adverse reactions to MSG at levels readily available in an ordinary diet.
. . .
If you are concerned about MSG sensitivity, or would like to help the Truth in Labeling Campaign, (a nonprofit corporation), write Jack Samuels, Truth in Labeling Campaign, P.O. Box 2532, Darien, IL 60561. A stamped, self-addressed envelope would be appreciated.

[Michaelangelica]

Red Clover Blocks Neurological Damage From MSG
Red Clover Blocks Neurological Damage From MSG
The photo at the link is actually a chive flower
(I wish I could start a herb-editing business)
here is better or google it
It is acommon weed