Today’s additive question, do you try to avoid MSG? Hidden in most generic spices, kinda obvious in the pic below. What’s so good about MSG? – http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/harmful-effects-of-monosodium-glutamate-msg/.
The Harmful Effects of Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
by Dr. Edward Group DC, NP, DACBN, DCBCN, DABFM
Glutamate is a natural amino acid found in foods containing protein, like milk, mushrooms and fish. Monosodium glutamate (MSG), manufactured with only the sodium salt of glutamate, is designed to be a flavor enhancer and is found in many foods. However, clever labeling practices and deceptions serve to camouflage its presence.
Consider the claim “no added MSG.” This claim means that there was no MSG poured into the product—even if it was processed into the product. This is the practice of the glutamate industry and the food producers who use MSG. Why Do This? It’s simple: it keeps the money coming in and they don’t have to change their formula.
Consider these MSG facts:
•Since the introduction, in the past 30 years, the incidence of Type II Diabetes has doubled.
•Obesity in children has skyrocketed!
•MSG is injected into lab animals to induce obesity so that pharmaceutical companies can test their drugs.
Why is MSG Harmful?
The glutamate industry is fully aware of the harmful effects of MSG, that it is a toxic substance. They know that ingesting their toxin can cause diabetes, adrenal gland malfunction, seizures, high blood pressure, excessive weight gain, stroke and other health problems. If you eat MSG and experience any of these conditions, then you need to immediately eliminate MSG from your diet.
4 Ways to Eliminate Toxins from MSG
1.Carefully read product labels at the market. Whenever you see it, avoid the products with MSG in their ingredients.
2.At restaurants, ask if they serve dishes containing MSG.
3.Avoid fast foods. Most use MSG in their fries and drinks to enhance the flavor and to get you addicted to their foods.
4.Consuming MSG causes swelling of the mucus membranes in the gastrointestinal tract. Cleanse your colon regularly to prevent this swelling.
MSG ends up hiding in our food supply in all sorts of dark places that make it almost impossible to identify what does and does not contain it.
Three are too many things to be said against MSG to actually go into them but I want to make one point that is the result of an actual study that is worth giving some thought to.
About a decade ago there was a fairly large study conducted on elderly in nursing homes using MSG laced food and non MSG food with the aim being to see how to improve elderly nutritional intake (eating too little is actually a problem at the end of life period and causes all kinds of medical conditions that wouldn’t occur with proper nutrition).
In every instance studied elderly people in the study using the MSG food consumed significantly more food than those without it. It resulted in an increased appetite among people with a serious lack of it.
Combine the all pervasive HFCS with large quantities of MSG in almost every processed food we eat with people of normal appetite who don’t need to consume more than they are and give it a bit of thought.
Perhaps the obesity epidemic, at least in part, if being caused by this.
Yes, but mostly because I don’t like the taste very much. I also avoid things high in salt because I actually like to taste my food.
I also avoid things with ridiculously high sugar levels.
My dad has been on the subject of MSG since the 80’s, before it was well known. The funny thing is he would always use the full name–Monosodium Glutamate–when the term MSG came in vogue, it took me a while before I put the two together.
I’ve been in MSG …. saw a preseason NBA game — Knicks vs Lakers. Also, in 1970 saw a group called Ten Years After. MSG is fun.
We’ve been trying to avoid MSG at home (entirely) and minimize it in restaurants. Interesting info above, we were avoiding it for other reasons.
By the way, be aware that the ingredient “hydrolyzed soy protein” means that the food contains MSG, but does not have to be labeled as containing MSG. Very sneaky! More details here:
http://www.livestrong.com/article/467219-what-is-hydrolized-soy-protein/
One more reason why cooking from scratch with food you either raised yourself or sourced locally is a good idea.
There was a Chinese joint I used to go to and I could never figure out why I had such a tremendous HA after eating there. I thought it was just because I would stop by there after a 36 hour shift as an intern, but then I saw on the news they had been overdosing their customers with the MSG in their food.
At least their meat wasn’t from cats they poached from the local hood, which actually happened here in Houston, Lordy.
Ok … that Madison Square Garden (MSG) quip wasn’t all that funny. But, does it deserve two thumbs down? NO!! Ya fuckin’ humorless assholes.
Stucky today
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Back in 2002 I was went to Colorado for two weeks of sales training. The bar in the hotel/conference center had an awesome local (now nationwide) beer on tap, Fat Tire.
For two weeks I drank wayyyyy too much of it, damn it is a fine beer. I woke up the second to the last morning with my eyes itching. When I looked in the mirror I was in SHOCK, my entire face and body was covered in great, big, red, itchy hives and my face looked like I had gained 30 pounds overnight. Yikes!
They barely let me on the plane because as I stood in security my benadryl was wearing off and my face was puffing out and exploding. Needless to say if a terrorist ever gets a really bad allergic reaction you all will be saved.
What does this have to do with MSG, you may ask? Hold on.
Those hives and the allergic reaction only got worse, and worse, and worse. I spent EIGHT weeks taking antihistamines, steroids and still was exploding and itching to the point my doctor was afraid I was going to stroke out (blood pressure goes WAY up with that itch and pain). At one point I was taking up to FIVE different steroids and numerous antihistamines at the SAME time.
So I, finally, realized doc had NO idea what to do and what was going on, and if I were to ever feel normal again I would have to figure it out.
Started by cutting EVERYTHING out of my diet and only drinking pure water and raw veges. One vege at a time. Thankfully, after about a week of that torture it dawned on me that beer was fermented, fermentation equals yeast/mold and that I was allergic to penicillin (for years) and that it is MOLD.
So, I cut ALL fermented foods, and yeast filled foods, from my diet and my hives went away.
That is when I discovered that MSG is related to MOLD. Hydrolyzed “yeast” protein = MSG = mold!
Flash forward and I could no longer drink beer, nor wine, eat most cheeses, any processed/convenience foods and little to no bread. That was no way to live.
Seasoned salt and Accent are BOTH MSG/mold! Nearly every restaurant in this country uses one or the other of those two products even while their menus boast “MSG free.”
The one thing about that allergy was that I could tell within SECONDS of walking into a house if they had a mildew/mold problem, came in handy when buying a house. The other bonus was my instant way of ferreting out crap ingredients in restaurant food.
MSG is EVERYWHERE, and in nearly everything.
Thank God that five (or so) years ago the Feds outlawing/controlling pseudoephidrine forced me to fix my allergies. After I did the 3 initial months of my apple cider vinegar/raw honey tonic, my mold allergies went away and have never came back. I haven’t tested my penicillin allergy, because once I cleared my system I never been back on the antibiotics that had been part of my life for 30 plus years. But, I bet I could take it without problems now, as I can drink beer and wine and I’m fine.
Poisoned in the name of corporate profits and “tasty” foods. Death by any other name is still permanent.
Loving the Questions this week!
I don’t worry about MSG at all. I am more concerned with the massive amount of sugar and salt in food. I did have a guy explain that he was a cook and that he thought that MSG was some sort of brain food and thought that it had something to do with why Asians were so smart.
Shit TE …..just tell the truth. You were doing more then drinking and you caught some kind of VD.
I cannot even spell MGS, so how the hell do you expect me to avoid it?