The following is portions of an article that was in
The Living Well Support and Resource Centre for Cancer Patients and Their Families.
MSG - The Slow Poisoning Of America
MSG Hides Behind 25+ Names, Such As ‘Natural Flavouring’ MSG Is
9-12-05 - I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive obesity epidemic, so did a friend of mine, John Erb, a research assistant at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, who 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. 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. 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.
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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.
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 Meat Tenderizer’, etc) But it didn’t stop there. We started asking at the restaurants what menu items had MSG. Many employees 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, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Taco Bell
And every restaurant like: TGIF, Chili’s, Applebee’s and Denny’s use MSG in abundance. Even be careful at your “health food store”, do not spend your dollars on ANYTHING that has "Hydrolyzed Vegetable that is MSG.
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.
When you go to your local grocery store deli, every SINGLE food there has MSG, or one of the 25 hidden names of MSG. So, why is MSG in so many 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.
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[spofamerica.com](http://www.spofamerica.com)
Even the propaganda website sponsored by the food manufacturers lobby group supporting MSG at:
[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 OF THEIR PRODUCTS.
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’. GobattoCA, Mello MA, Souza CT, Ribeiro IA.Res Commun
Mol Pathol Pharmacol. 2002.
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* '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, IchikawaK, Shinohara N, Yoshinari Fujishima Hypertens Res. 1998 Mar.
* 'Hypothalamic lesion induced by injection of monosodiu 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.
Is MSG good? See for yourself. Go to the
National Library of Medicine, at [pubmed.com](http://www.pubmed.com). Type in the words
"MSG Obese" and read a few of the 115 medical studies that appear.
