I found this article in my naturopath’s office…I couldn’t believe some of the stuff I read! This is basically written word for word of what was printed.. be prepared to be freaked out and disgusted!
The food additive MSG is a slow poison. MSG hides behind 25 or more names, such as “natural flavoring”. MSG is even in your favorite coffee from Tim Horton’s and Starbucks!
Ever wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive obesity epidemic? John Erb 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 though 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 had 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”.
Shocking isn’t it? Now head to your kitchen and check your cupboards and fridge. MSG is 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, and Kraft salad dressings, especially the “healthy low-fat” ones.
The items that don’t have MSG marked on the product label may have something called “Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein”, which is just another name for Monosodium Glutamate.
It’s pretty shocking to see just how many of the foods we feed our children everything 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. (such as: “accent”, “aginomoto”, “natural meat tenderizer”, etc)
But it doesn’t stop there.
When dining out, start asking the restaurants what menu items contain MSG. Many employees, even the managers, will swear they don’t use MSG. But when you ask for the ingredient list, which they will grudgingly provide, sure enough, MSG and hydrolyzed vegetable protein will appear.
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. KFC seemed to be the WORST offender: MSG was in every chicken dish, salad dressing and gravy. No wonder people 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 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 products 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 substanace. 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, lino 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.
Top-level government officials refuse to tell the public what they know. 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 you do?
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.
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.
Until next time team, Blowing the whistle on MSG is our responsibility, so GET THE WORD OUT!
Health respect & happiness,
beki
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