MSG

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This was just on the lymetopics group and thought I would pass it along.

 

 

ARE YOU SLOWLY POISONING YOURSELF?

 

MSG - used in Coffee - (read this for sure) please read this. It is

startling!!

 

Food additive " MSG " is a Slow Poison. Slow Poisoning MSG hides behind 25 or

more names, such as " Natural Flavouring " .

 

MSG is also in your favourite Tim Horton's and other brand coffee shops!

Pass this on to those who still may be unaware or

disbelieving of the dangers of MSG. I wondered if there could be an actual

chemical causing the massive obesity epidemic, so did a friend of mine, John

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 too. I went to my kitchen, checking the cupboards and the

fridge. MSG was in everything! The Campbell 's soups, the Hostess Doritos,

the Lays flavoured 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 Meet 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, McDonalds, Wendy'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!

 

So why is MSG in so may of the foods we eat?.. Is it a preservative or a

vitamin??

Not according to my friend John. In the book he wrote, an expose of the food

additive industry called " The Slow Poisoning of A merica " he said that MSG

is added to food for the addictive effect it has on the human body.

 

<http://www.spofamerica.com/> http://www.spofamerica.com/

 

Even the propaganda website sponsored by the food manufacturers lobby group

supporting MSG at:

<http://www.msgfactscom/facts/msgfact12.html>

http://www.msgfactscom/facts/msgfact12.html 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 that it is

added to. 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 much of it 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 John

Erb's book link MSG to Diabetes,

Migraines and headaches, Autism, ADHD and even Alzheimer's. But what can we

do to stop the food manufactures from dumping fattening and addictive MSG

into our food supply and causing the obesity epidemic we now see?

 

Even as you read this, G. 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.

Read about it for yourself at: <http://www./>

http://www./.

 

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, John 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!

 

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 e-mail 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 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?

 

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

you don't believe what John Erb has to say, see for yourself. Go to the

National Library of Medicine, at

<http://www.pubmed.com/> http://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, 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.

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Bruce Guilmette, PhD

Author: THERE'S MORE TO LIFE THAN JUST LIVING, A Personal Story About

Cancer Survival

Survive Cancer Foundation, Inc.

http://survivecancerfoundation.org <http://survivecancerfoundation.org/>

 

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day

has enough trouble of its own. Matt 6:34 (NIV)