THIS IS SERIOUS STUFF!!!
Interesting reading makes one think what is going into our
mouths.. I had no idea that Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein was MSG!!!!!!!!!!!
Just goes to show, you have to be knowledgeable and conscious of everything!!!!
I'm especially interested in the part about headaches; towards the end, I
underlined it.
MSG hides behind 25 or more names, such as Natural
Flavoring.' MSG is even in your favorite coffee from Tim Horton's and Starbucks
coffee shops!
I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the
massive obesity epidemic, and 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 scientists have to create them. They make
these creatures morbidly obese by injecting them with MSG when they are first
born.
The MSG triples the amount of insulin the pancreas creates,
causing rats (and perhaps humans) to become obese. They even have a name for
the fat rodents they create: 'MSG-Treated Rats.'
When I heard this, I was shocked. I went into my kitchen and
checked the cupboards and the refrigerator. MSG was in everything -- the
Campbell's soups, the Hostess Doritos, the Lays flavored potato chips, Top Ramen,
Betty Crocker Hamburger Helper, Heinz canned gravy, Swanson frozen prepared
meals, and 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. MSG is hidden under many
different names in order to fool those who read the ingredient list, so that
they don't catch on. (Other names for MSG are 'Accent, 'Aginomoto, 'Natural
Meat Tenderizer,' etc.) But it didn't stop there.
When our family went out to eat, we started asking at the
restaurants what menu items contained 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, McDonald's, Wendy's, Taco Bell, every
restaurant -- even the sit-down eateries like TGIF, Chili's, Applebee's, 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 many of the foods we eat? Is it a
preservative, or a vitamin?
Not according to my friend John Erb. In his book "The
Slow Poisoning of America", he said that MSG is added to food for the
addictive effect it has on the human body.
Even the propaganda website sponsored by the food
manufacturers lobby group supporting MSG explains that the reason they add it
to food is to make people eat more.
A study of the elderly showed that older people eat more of
the foods that it is added to. The Glutamate Association lobbying group says
eating more is a benefit to 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!
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.. But how can they claim it's
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.
(Hypothalamic
dysfunction is a problem with the region of the brain called the
hypothalamus, which helps control the
pituitary gland and regulate many body functions, particularly in response to stress. The
pituitary, in turn, controls the:
hisng issues with their advertisers. It seems that the fallout on the 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 message 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 article to
everyone. With any luck, it will circle the globe before politicians can pass
the legislation protecting those who are poisoning us.
Of the 186 billion tons of carbon from CO2
that enter earth's atmosphere each year from all sources, only 6 billion tons
are from human activity. Approximately 90 billion tons come from biologic
activity in earth's oceans and another 90 billion tons from such sources as
volcanoes and decaying land plants.
