A Slow Poison - MSG
The "Studies" reveal facts.
Books written on MSG Hazards
The food additive MSG (Mono-Sodium Glutamate) is a slow poison.
MSG hides behind 25 or more names, such as "Natural Flavouring."
MSG is even in your favourite coffee from
Tim Horton's and other brand-name 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 is in everything in your cupboard!
- Campbell's soup
- Hostess Doritos
- 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.
MSG (Monosodium Glutamate)is hidden under many different names:- Accent
- Aginomoto
- Natural Meat Tenderizer
- Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein
But don't stop there. When your family goes out to eat, ask restaurants
what menu items contain MSG. Many employees, even the managers, swore
they do NOT use MSG. But ask for the ingredient list.
MSG and Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein are everywhere:
- Burger King
- McDonald's
- Wendy's
- Taco Bell
- TGIF
- Chili's
- Applebee's
- Kentucky Fried Chicken - The WORST offender - MSG was in every chicken dish,
salad dressing and gravy. No wonder you love 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.
No, the date of that last study was not a typo; it was published in 1978.
Both the "medical research community" and food manufacturers"
have known about the side effects of MSG for decades.
Many more of the studies mentioned in John Erb's book link
MSG to diabetes, migraines and headaches, autism, ADHD, and
even Alzheimer's. So what can we do to stop the food
manufactures from dumping this fattening and addictive MSG
into our food supply and causing the obesity epidemic we now
see?
Several months ago, John Erb took his book and his
concerns to one of the highest government health officials
in Canada . While he was 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 government
official refuses to tell the public what he knows. The
big media doesn't want to tell the public either, fearing
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. The food industry 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
www.pubmed.com.
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, the 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 printout to
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, so get the
word out.
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