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A widespread and silent killer that's worse for your health than alcohol, nicotine and many drugs is likely lurking in your kitchen cabinets right now.[1] "It" is monosodium glutamate (MSG), a flavor enhancer that's known widely as an addition to Chinese food, but that's actually added to thousands of the foods you and your family regularly eat, especially if you are like most Americans and eat the majority of your food as processed foods or in restaurants.
MSG is one of the worst food additives on the market and is used in canned soups, crackers, meats, salad dressings, frozen dinners and much more. It's found in your local supermarket and restaurants, in your child's school cafeteria and, amazingly, even in baby food and infant formula.
MSG is more than just a seasoning like salt and pepper, it actually enhances the flavor of foods, making processed meats and frozen dinners taste fresher and smell better, salad dressings more tasty, and canned foods less tinny.
While MSG's benefits to the food industry are quite clear, this food additive could be slowly and silently doing major damage to your health.
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Yeah, it's sneaky allright. I had health problems for years caused by this crap, and I didn't even know I was eating it. I avoided anything labelled 'monosodium glutamate' because I knew it was supposed to be bad for you, but I didn't know about all of the other sneaky ingredients they use to get MSG into the food.
I would have sore throats, inflamed sinuses, headaches and shortness of breath. The reactions I would have to the MSG were delayed for about 12-14 hours, so that made it harder to figure out.
I finally found out what was wrong with me in 2002 when I discovered the book "Food Allergies, The Complete Guide to Understanding and Relieving your Food Allergies" by William Walsh, MD. What a lifesaver that book was for me.
This is weird, do you know that MSG is a natural substance?
I thought you like everything natural?
So how come you know which natural substance are good or bad, especially when soy product have been used for centuries
This is weird, do you know that MSG is a natural substance?
I thought you like everything natural?
So how come you know which natural substance are good or bad, especially when soy product have been used for centuries
Poison Ivy's a natural substance, too. Doesn't mean it's good for you.
I know of a lady at my place of worship that invited us to dinner, and I saw the bottle of
what appeared to be MSG, and I said to her (mind you , she was just dumping it into everything)
while she was using it in a matter of fact tone, that I'm not going to be able to have anything with MSG in in it, I'm allergic to it" and she showed me the bottle and it was not, it was a tenderizer made from natural veg and fruit sugars.. The food tasted great, and I was semi embarassed.
But her 91 year mother uses msg in everything I mean, "Accent", not seasoning salt...
I told her that i haven't seen this bottle since the seventies ; when I used to consume it.
it makes my head feel like it's going to explode...
But check out the tenderizer on google , I can't think of the name of it off hand..
exactly what I scream with each dibilitating migraine caused by the stuff..........
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