Subject: Food additive "MSG" is a Slow Poison. Slow Poisoning MSG hides behind 25 or more names, such as "Natural Flavouring".
MSG - used in Coffee - (read this for sure) please read this. It is
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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 andHydrolyzed 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 inabundance. 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 America" he said that MSG is added to food for the addictive effect it has on the human body.
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 largerdoses 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 forthe 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 serotoninrelease 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 knownabout 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 arepushing 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:
Yahoo!. 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 governmentofficial 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, andnow 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 foodindustry 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 Entrez PubMed. 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.
these are exciting times we live in.. thanks mainly to the internet, the truth is spreading! i'm so very sick and tired of the government hiding these facts from us! thanks fof sharing simon, hope you caught my post about the dangers of chlorinated tap water.
these are exciting times we live in.. thanks mainly to the internet, the truth is spreading! i'm so very sick and tired of the government hiding these facts from us! thanks fof sharing simon, hope you caught my post about the dangers of chlorinated tap water.
workinman
Are the facts hidden or do they just not make the front page? Far too long and pehaps it is a legacy that we use to trust the protections reportedly in place. We use to implicitly trust government even knowing the vagueries of human nature. A lot of unhelathy water hasgone under the bridge. The tobacco issue has done a lot to get people to accept that not all is as it seems and since 911; everything is being questioned. So many woke up thatmorning to find a world they did not recognize and so they questioned en masse. Now they are slipping back into sleepiness although we are uneasy sleepers these days knowing that we cannot just blindly follow the leader anymore.
I remember a female comedian, very funny; did a schtick once about Mosses leading the Isrealites around the desert for fotty years until they came finally to their new lands. She supposed that perhaps the journey might have been a little shorter, men being the way they are with maps and that she wondered why someone after about 10 years of wandering might have asked to get a look at the map to see if Moses actually knew where he was going or it was the lost leading the trusting.
Horselover
MSG bad; we get that now. Check your salt/sodium intake. Salt has many names too. Add a bit of stress and a weighty load of salts and boom you get to carry extra water around. Many say; I don't use salt or I only use sea salt. Table salt has iodine in it, could affect thyroid function; too much not enough, It's a freakin job just to have a snack these days.
You know... as it is Obvious from this Article... even though much of
the Nation is "Aware" of MSG (to some extent)... it is still very hard
to "Deal" with the situation. Like was mentioned here... it is in almost
"ALL" Processed Foods.
As a Vegetarian... I have for many years tried to Learn more about the
"Ethics" of Eating... and also The Health Aspects of The Food I Consume.
But... I find myself too often opting for the "Quick Meal" and not
taking the time to Cook and Eat more Produce and Naturally Grown and
"NOT PROCESSED" Foods.
I have a "Weight Problem". The Older I Get the more Important it
becomes. And while I "Know" that the "Problem" is also Related to Eating
Processed Foods with Crap like MSG in them... I still want to "SEE" the
Problem as "Eating Too Much"... or having more to do with "Me".
One of the Things I am getting to here is... MSG is just another Example
of "Why" People are so "Beat Down" when it comes to trying to get any
Sanity or Action from Government, Corporations or "The System". While
People "Know" a lot about Aspects of Their Problems... the also "Know"
(or Believe) that They Can't Do Anything About It. So... maybe more
Unconscious than not... they Deny Its Existence. How many Times in Our
Lives do We Deny those things we Think or Believe We Have No Control
Over??? To "CONFRONT" Our Powerlessness... is to ADMIT It. That is Hard
to Do. Actually... Sometimes We Do "Just The Opposite" of What We Know
We Should Do... Just to Show to Ourselves and perhaps Others... That We
Don't HAVE To! We try to convince Ourselves that We Are In Control!
We Live in a Very "Dumbed Down"... Apathetic and Impotent Society. To
PROVE TO OURSELVES that THIS IS NOT SO... We Pretend Just The Opposite.
We "Buy In" to The Allusion that is So Conveniently Provided for Us. And
those Few Who have The Courage and Concern and Clear Vision to "SEE" and
SPEAK OUT... are Typically Denied and ostracised... by the Very People
They are Trying to Help.
The only salt intake I get is what's listed on any ingredient list of the foods I eat. I very rarely add salt to anything I eat. I just don't like it.
The recommendation for salt in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as well as the American Heart Association is 2,400 milligrams (mg) daily for adults. This is the amount in 1 teaspoon of salt (2,300 mg to be exact). The average American consumes 5,000 mg of salt daily -- twice the necessary amount. Normal salt balance can be maintained with 500 mg daily (or a little more than one-fourth teaspoon of salt), so Americans are eating ten times as much as they really need. Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Portugal all have about the same recommendation of 2,400 mg of salt. Some countries, such as Germany (4,000 mg), the Netherlands (3,600 mg) and Belgium (3,500 mg), are more liberal and at least one country, Sweden (800 mg), is more restrictive than the United States.
"Where is all this salt coming from?" you may ask. Many foods are a natural source of salt (such as meat and fish) while others contain salt added during processing (prepared soup and crackers, for example).
Surprisingly, you're responsible for only 15 percent of the salt in your diet. Food has about 10 percent of your salt already naturally in it. The food industry is responsible for adding 75 percent of the salt that you consume each day to the prepared foods that you buy. For example, the following additives contain plenty of salt:
sodium substitutes increase levels of pottasium
Salt, sodium
Sodium is a mineral present in salt, which the body needs to regulate fluid balance. Too much sodium can raise the blood pressure, which in turn can lead to heart disease and strokes. Sodium, in salt, is added in large quantities to processed foods, like canned vegetables, bottled sauces, ready meals and many more. It's also used to coat many snacks, like nuts and crisps. These are some of the sodium-based additives to beware of on the label:
You know...I just envision half of the asian population just dying off suddenly because of MSG. I've noticed a difference in my health by not purposely adding MSN to my food (my parents did it all the time).
You know...I just envision half of the asian population just dying off suddenly because of MSG. I've noticed a difference in my health by not purposely adding MSN to my food (my parents did it all the time).
but it's obvious I still ingest the stuff. YEESH!
Overall I think the asians have enjoyed better health and a balanced diet, lessincidence of heart disease and stroke. I predominantly cook asian style contrary to my meat and potato upbringing. I enjoy a completely leaner body type in contrast to a bulkier and more muscular body I had on the heavy beef english diet. That's me. The big difference for me was the volume and type of meat and cooking methods. Studies have shown that Asians are beginning to demonstrate the effects of a western influenced diet. I think the fat is killing them and I think only western chinese cooking uses MSG. I use to cook in a chinese restaurant and at family dinner after closing you didn't see a lot food that was on the menu and no MSG within a hundred yards. I think the difference in the diet really amounts to shorter cooking times and focused on fresher ingredients( fresh as possible after 21 hours on a truck and 3 weeks on a slow boat)
very interesting article below
Sim
Dietary Changes: Shift in the Overall Structure Over Time
The diets of the developing world are shifting rapidly. Good data for most countries on total energy intake are not available, but shifts in the structure of the diet can be examined. Thus, the shift in diet, over time, in the proportion of energy derived from fat has been explored (Guo et al., 2000).
The dramatic changes in the aggregate income–fat relationship from 1962 to 1990 are found in China. Most significantly, by 1990 even poor nations (having a gross national product [GNP] of only $750 per capita) had access to a relatively high-fat diet, which derived 20 percent of its energy from fat; in 1962 the same diet was associated with countries having a GNP of $1,475 (both GNP values in 1993 dollars). This dramatic change arose from a major increase (from 10 to 13 percent) in the consumption of vegetable fats by poor and rich nations alike. Increases (of 3 to 6 percent) also occurred in middle-and high-income nations.
At the same time, there were decreases in the consumption of fat from animal sources for all except the low-income countries. The availability of animal fats continued to be linked to income, though less strongly in 1990 than in 1962. These decreases, combined with the increase in vegetable-fat intake for countries rich and poor, resulted in an overall decrease in fat intake for moderate-income countries of about 3 percent, but an increase of about 4 to 5 percent for low-and high-income countries.
In 1990 vegetable fats accounted for a greater proportion of dietary energy than animal fats for the poorest 75 percent of countries (all of whom had incomes below approximately $5,800 per capita). The absolute level of vegetable-fat consumption increased, but there remained, at most, a weak association of GNP and vegetable-fat intake. Changes in vegetable-fat prices, supply, and consumption equally affected rich and poor countries, but the net impact was much greater on lower-income countries.
There has been an equally large and important shift in the proportion of energy from added sugar in the diets of lower-income countries (Drewnowski and Popkin, 1997).
Examination of the combined effect of these various shifts in the structure of rural and urban Chinese diets reveals an upward shift in the energy density of the foods consumed. Energy intake from foods and alcohol in both urban and rural Chinese adult diets increased over 10 percent between 1989 and 1997. These numbers represent a very rapid shift in energy density. (It is important to note that the Chinese Food Composition Table, from which these data were extracted, measures only a few beverages [milk, coconut juice, sugarcane juice, spirits, beer, wine, champagne, and brandy] and excludes many beverages, in particular tea and coffee, included in normal measures.) Other clinical studies have found that the consumption of higher-density diets is associated with increased total energy intake. Energy density changes in the diet of China, and most likely in other developing countries, are critical components to be monitored.
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