Subject: FW: MSG aka HVP big-scale addiction
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:27:14 -0700
Although I find it stranger that anyone would be shocked or surprised to learn that a diet based on manufactured, packaged foods can cause health problems,
I still think this is a message worth spreading far and wide. I note too that the author does not even mention the idea of stopping eating foods with MSG!
It’s a weird world!
Andy
SLOW POISONING OF AMERICA [and CANADA]
I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive
obesity epidemic. So did a friend of mine, John Erb.
He was a research assistant at the University of Waterloo and spent
years working for the government.
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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.
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No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese, so the scientists have to create them.
They make these morbidly obese creatures by injecting them with
MSG when they are first born. The MSG triples the amount of insulin the
pancreas creates, causing rats (and humans?) to become obese they even
have a title for the race of fat rodents they create: "MSG-Treated Rats" MSG?
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I was shocked too. I went to my kitchen, checking the cupboards and the
fridge. 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, Kraft salad
dressings, especially the 'healthy low fat' ones. The items that didn't have MSG
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. They hide MSG
under many different names in order to fool those who catch on.
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But it didn't stop there. When our family went out to eat, we started
asking at the restaurants what menu items had 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, McDonalds, Wendy's, Taco
Bell, every restaurant, even the sit down ones like TGIF,
Chilis', Applebees and Denny's use MSG in abundance. Kentucky Fried
Chicken seemed to be the WORST offender: MSG as in every chicken dish, salad
dressing and gravy. No wonder I loved to eat that coating on the skin,
their secret spice was MSG!
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So why is MSG in so may of the foods we eat? Is it a preservative or a
vitamin? Not according to my friend John. In the book he wrote, an
expose of the food additive industry called The Slow Poisoning of America,
http://www.spofamerica.com/ www.spofamerica.com , 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 at: http://www.msgfacts <http://www.msgfacts/
com/facts/msgfact12.html explains that the reason they add it to food
is to make people eat more.
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A study of elderly people showed that people eat more of the foods that
it is added to. The Glutamate association lobby group says eating more
benefits the elderly, but what does it do to the rest of us?
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'Betcha can't eat just one', takes on a whole new meaning where MSG is
concerned! And we wonder why the nation is overweight? The 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!
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Since its introduction into the American food supply fifty years ago,
MSG has been added in larger and larger doses to the prepackaged meals,
soups, snacks and fast foods we are tempted to eat everyday.
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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. How can they claim it is safe when
there are hundreds of scientific studies with titles like these?
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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
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Adrenalectomy abolishes the food-induced hypothalamic serotonin release
in both normal and monosodium glutamate-obese rats. Guimaraes RB, Telles
MM, Coelho VB, Mori RC, Nascimento CM, Ribeiro Brain Res Bull. 2002 Aug
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Obesity induced by neonatal monosodium glutamate treatment in
spontaneously hypertensive rats: an animal model of multiple risk factors. Yamamoto M,
Iino K, Ichikawa K, Shinohara N, Yoshinari Fujishima Hypertens Res.
1998 Mar
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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
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Yes, that last study was not a typo, it WAS written in 1978.
Both the medical research community and food "manufacturers" have known
MSG's side effects for decades!
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Many more studies mentioned in John Erb's book link MSG to Diabetes,
Migraines and headaches, Autism, ADHD and even Alzheimer's. But what
can we do to stop the food manufactures from dumping fattening and addictive
MSG into our food supply and causing the obesity epidemic we now see? Even
as you read this, George W. Bush and his corporate supporters are pushing a
Bill through Congress.
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Called the:
"Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act" also known as the
"Cheeseburger Bill " this sweeping law bans anyone from suing food
manufacturers, sellers and distributors. Even if it comes out that they
purposely added an addictive chemical to their foods.
Read about it for yourself at:
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http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8458081.htm
"Last month the House of Representatives passed the "Personal
Responsibility in Food Consumption Act" to protect the food and beverage industry from
civil lawsuits. Under the measure, known as the "Cheeseburger Bill,"
people who buy food or drinks couldn't sue the companies that made them, the
stores that sold them or the restaurants that served them if they got fat from
the products, so long as the products met existing laws. The Senate is
expected to take up a similar bill later this year."
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The Bill has already been rushed through the House of Representatives,
and is due for the same rubber stamp at Senate level. It is important that
Bush and his corporate supporters get it through before the media lets
everyone know about MSG, the intentional Nicotine for food.
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Several months ago, John Erb took his book and his concerns to one of
the highest government health officials in Canada. While 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
refused to tell the public what he knew. The big media doesn't want to tell the
public either, fearing legal issues with their advertisers. It seems that the
fallout on the fast food industry may hurt their profit margin.
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So what do we do? 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 guys like Bush are insuring
financial protection for the industry that is poisoning us.
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I for one am doing something about it. I am sending this email out to
everyone I know in an attempt to show you the truth that the corporate
owned politicians and media won't tell you. The best way you can help save
yourself and your children from this drug-induced epidemic, is to
forward this email to everyone. With any luck, it will circle the globe before
Bush can pass the Bill protecting those who poisoned 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? Blow the
whistle on MSG.
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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
http://www.pubmed.com
<http://www.pubmed.com/ . Type in the words "MSG Obese", and read a few
of the 115 medical studies that appear. (I did this and it is very
interesting.)
We 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,
waiting for the slaughter.
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With your help we can put an end to this, and stop the Slow Poisoning of
America.
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Let's protect ourselves and our children.
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John Erb
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