Re: MSG made markdemer a lame brain.
- From: PaPaPeng <PaPaPeng@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:02:57 GMT
From
http://www.price-pottenger.org/Articles/MSG.html
Excerpts:
The ingredient ?monosodium glutamate? was invented in Japan in 1908.4
The inventor, Kikunae Ikeda, identified the flavor enhancing substance
of seaweed, recognizing that Asians had used seaweed for flavoring for
thousands of years. Shortly thereafter, he and a partner formed
Ajinomoto, currently a six billion dollar firm, that is the world?s
largest producer of MSG. Use of the product was minimal in our country
until after World War II, when it was introduced to the United States
food industry as a flavoring agent that our military discovered made
Japanese army rations more palatable than our own. Many may remember
when pure monosodium glutamate became available in our stores in a
product called ?Accent.?
In 1968, a Chinese physician who immigrated to our country, Dr. Robert
Ho Man Kwok, wrote a letter to the editor of The New England Journal
of Medicine5 to ask for help in determining why he and friends
suffered numbness, weakness, and palpitations when they dined in
certain Chinese restaurants. He reported that the condition occurred
15 to 20 minutes following the meal and lasted about two hours. The
letter was published under the heading ?Chinese Restaurant Syndrome.?
Published responses that followed indicated that Dr. Kwok?s problem
was a reaction to monosodium glutamate and -- as industry protested --
the debate over the safety of MSG began.
About the same time, John W. Olney, M.D., a neuroscientist at
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri who recently had been
appointed to the National Academy of Science, noted that mice being
fed MSG for a study of retinal deterioration had become grotesquely
obese.6 Believing that the obesity was related to the function of the
hypothalamus in the brain, he sacrificed MSG-fed mice and found that
MSG caused hypothalamus lesions and neuroendocrine disorders, and that
the very young were at particular risk. Neuroscientists now generally
agree that glutamic acid is neurotoxic, killing brain neurons by
exciting them to death.
Dr. Olney?s findings did raise concern, especially since he had
pointed out that the very young were most susceptible to damage
because the protective blood brain barrier remains under development
in the young. Because of Dr. Olney?s work, considerable pressure was
put on the food industry to remove MSG from baby food. In an apparent
effort to diffuse the pressure, they agreed. To this date, however,
the FDA has taken no official action to disallow MSG in baby food.
Although baby food sold today appears to be MSG-free, there are junior
food products with MSG, and, of course, infants eat table food, much
of which contains MSG. Also, baby formula contains ingredients with
MSG; formulas for allergic infants contain much larger amounts than
regular formula.
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On 28 Nov 2005 21:12:51 -0800, "James" <j0069bond@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>MSG does not make people fat. It does however make food taste better.
>Instead of using a whole chicken to make soup, you can use just a
>quarter chicken plus accent. Accent is high price MSG.
>
>BTW MSG was invented in the USA. It's found in most food processed in
>USA. Shady corporate America use many substitute names for MSG so MSG
>wouldn't be on top of the ingredients list.
>
>Why is the average Chinese on high MSG diet thinner than the average
>white?
>
>> Kyo Kusanagi wrote:
>> > Monosodium Glutamate is an excitotoxin that causes disease, and
>> > increased appetite. It is also addictive. It is present in soy sauce,
>> > oyster sauce, hoi sin sauce, and among many other Asian sauces
>> > available in any Asian supermarket. MSG is present in ALL seasoned
>> > seaweed. It is a known fact that scientists use MSG to fatten up lab
>> > mice and any other animal if they need their "guinea pigs" to be fat.
>> > The super buffets that have sprang up all across America are drving up
>> > the cost of food, and increasing obesity, in fact encouraging obesity,
>> > which will cause financial strain on tax payers who will need to pay
>> > for the obese citizens medicare bill.
>> > MSG should be made illegal. Other names that MSG goes by: Hydrolyzed
>> > starch, natural flavoring, and I forgot the others, but food makers are
>> > very deceptive. And Panda Express does use Asian sauces that contain
>> > MSG, whether or not Panda Express still claims that they "Do not add
>> > any MSG", I do not know, but it is all very deceiving.
>> > Food can taste good without monosodium glutamate. MSG should be
>> > classified as a drug, not a food, and should only be used for those who
>> > are anorexic, or has any other deficiency in nutrients.
>> > MSG certainly makes food taste better, and helps to compensate for
>> > flavor lost during processing, so the issue really should be how to
>> > keep the flavor of processed food naturally instead of resorting to
>> > adding "natural flavors" msg.
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- References:
- The Evils of MSG: Obesity
- From: Kyo Kusanagi
- The Evils of MSG: Obesity
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