The Link Between Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) and Obesity

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The Link Between Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) and

Obesity

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7/15/05 Author: Dani Veracity Source:

NewsTarget.com

 

If fried snack chips had a warning printed right on

the bag that said,

" Warning: these chips will make you obese, " would you

still buy them?

Would you still eat them? Well, in a sense, you do see

that warning on

chips; just read the ingredient list. Research

suggests that monosodium

glutamate causes obesity, making unhealthy snacks even

unhealthier than

you may have suspected. I'm sure you already know that

tortilla and

potato chips aren't health foods, right? They're made

with fried fats,

they almost always harbor hidden toxic chemicals

(acrylamides), and if

they're flavored, they usually contain monosodium

glutamate (MSG). This

is basically a recipe for obesity.

 

But how does MSG cause obesity? Like aspartame, MSG is

an excitotoxin,

a

substance that overexcites neurons to the point of

cell damage and,

eventually, cell death. Humans lack a blood-brain

barrier in the

hypothalamus, which allows excitotoxins to enter the

brain and cause

damage, according to Dr. Russell L. Blaylock in his

book Excitotoxins.

According to animal studies, MSG creates a lesion in

the hypothalamus

that correlates with abnormal development, including

obesity, short

stature and sexual reproduction problems.

 

Based on this evidence, Dr. Blaylock makes an

interesting point about

the American obesity epidemic, especially among young

people: " One can

only wonder if the large number of people having

difficulty with

obesity

in the United States is related to early exposure to

food additive

excitotoxins, since this obesity is one of the most

consistent features

of the syndrome. One characteristic of the obesity

induced by

excitotoxins is that it doesn't appear to depend on

food intake. This

could explain why some people cannot diet away their

obesity. " As an

increasing number of elementary school students bring

snack-size bags

of

chips to school in their lunch boxes, the MSG-obesity

link demands

parental caution.

 

Instead of passively watching modern society become

obese and then

commenting on it, we need to change it at the start.

That begins with

you, the consumer. By avoiding foods with MSG, you are

not only

protecting your health and your family's health, you

are also

protecting

society's health by not supporting companies that use

MSG. Use your

buying power to show that you don't accept

manufactured foods that use

MSG or any of the other hidden forms of MSG such as

yeast extract,

hydrolyzed vegetable proteins and autolyzed proteins.

 

The experts speak on MSG and obesity:

Olney, J.W. " Brain Lesions, Obesity, and Other

Disturbances in Mice

Treated with Monosodium glutamate. " Sci. 165(1969):

719-271. Humans

also

lack a blood-brain barrier in the hypothalamus, even

as adults. It is

for this reason that Dr. Olney and other

neuroscientists are so

concerned about the widespread and heavy use of

excitotoxins, such as

MSG, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, and cysteine, as

food additives. In

his experiments Dr. Olney found that high-dose

exposure to MSG caused

hypoplasia of the adenohypophysis of the pituitary and

of the gonads,

in

conjunction with low hypothalamic, pituitary, and

plasma levels of LH,

growth hormone, and prolactin. When doses below toxic

levels for

hypothalamic cells were used, he found a rapid

elevation of LH and a

depression of the pulsatile output of growth hormone.

In essence, these

excitotoxins can cause severe pathophysiological

changes in the central

endocrine control system. Many of these dysfunctional

changes can occur

with subtoxic doses of MSG. One can speculate that

chronic exposure to

these neurotoxins could cause significant alterations

in the function

of

the hypothalamus, including its non-endocrine

portions.

Excitotoxins by Russell L Blaylock MD, page 263

 

Early exposure in life to high doses of glutamate, or

the other

excitotoxins, could theoretically produce a whole

array of disorders

much later in life, such as obesity, impaired growth,

endocrine

problems, sleep difficulties, emotional problems

including episodic

anger, and sexual psycho-pathology.

Excitotoxins by Russell L Blaylock MD, page 89

 

The stress-induced abnormalities in blood-brain

barrier permeability

suggest differing MSG effects dependent on existing

states of

relaxation

or stresses. The suggestive evidence for MSG-induced

neuroendocrine

effects is substantial, coupled with the observation

of increased

obesity in children.

In Bad Taste by George R Schwartz MD, page 39

 

With this enormous consumption of foods laced with MSG

additives, it is

no wonder that we have an obesity problem in this

country, especially

when you combine the hypothalamic lesion caused by MSG

to the high-fat

and -carbohydrate diets of young people. Of particular

concern is the

suggestion that MSG ingested by pregnant women may

actually cause this

lesion in children while they are still in the womb.

Health And Nutrition (see related ebook on nutrition)

Secrets by

Russell

L Blaylock MD, page 180

 

This also means that, while pregnant, mothers of

diabetic children also

consumed very large amounts of these

excitotoxin-containing foods.

Also,

many parents feed their babies table food from an

early age—food often

laced with large amounts of MSG. In addition, large

numbers of babies

are also fed formula, and many formulas are known to

be high in

excitotoxins such as caseinate. I have already cited

studies showing

that gross obesity is frequently linked to excessive

MSG consumption in

test animals.

Health And Nutrition Secrets by Russell L Blaylock MD,

page 182

 

Particularly disturbing is the later obesity after MSG

exposure during

the neonatal and infant period even after only a short

or limited

exposure.

In Bad Taste by George R Schwartz MD, page 22

 

With all of these endocrine malfunctions you would

expect these mice to

develop abnormally, and they do. Consistently, the

animals exposed to

MSG were found to be short, grossly obese, and had

difficulty with

sexual reproduction. One can only wonder if the large

number of people

having difficulty with obesity in the United States is

related to early

exposure to food additive excitotoxins since this

obesity is one of the

most consistent features of the syndrome. One

characteristic of the

obesity induced by excitotoxins is that it doesn't

appear to depend on

food intake. This could explain why some people cannot

diet away their

obesity. It is ironic that so many people drink soft

drinks sweetened

with NutraSweet® when aspartate can produce the exact

same lesions as

glutamate, resulting in gross obesity. The actual

extent of MSG induced

obesity in the human population is unknown.

Excitotoxins by Russell L Blaylock MD, page 81

 

The obesity effect of MSG in animals requires

evaluation since

unexplained obesity is increasing in our population,

along with

hypertension and diabetes. MSG-induced obesity in

animals may carry

long-term significance for humans.

In Bad Taste by George R Schwartz MD, page 22

 

Since his early observation, other studies have

confirmed that MSG

causes gross obesity in animals. At an international

neuroscience

meeting, Dr. Olney was asked if he thought the reason

Americans were so

obese was, in fact, due to their high consumption of

MSG additives. The

question was never answered, but since that conference

in the 1970s,

America has undergone this virtual epidemic of gross

obesity,

especially

among its youth.

Health And Nutrition Secrets by Russell L Blaylock MD,

page 180

 

This MSG-induced obesity was characterized by a

preference for

carbohydrates and an aversion for more nutritious

foods, just as we are

now witnessing in our youth. Also, excess weight was

extremely

difficult

to exercise off or diet off in these experimental

animals.

Health And Nutrition Secrets by Russell L Blaylock MD,

page 182

 

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