Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Found this public service annoucement over at : http://rstr.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/a-little-something-about-msg/
Thank you Michael S. -----
Isnt it amazing MSG is not being investigated by the FDA--oh that's right, the FDA was hyjacked by the Bush Administration in 2002....
Anyone see the ridiculous LYING advertisements now running during evening time TV hours. "Highfructose Corn Syrup" is good for you.
Once investigated these posions are owned and operated by some of the same folks that brought you "Iraq" "Katrina" "Bail-out" "MOnsanto" ect.....they are getting rich off of poisoning us... it works as a complete system---put these poisons in the foods....people get sick and need drugs to cure the disease the food additives create....hmmmmmmm.
A little something about MSG
MSG is in a majority of food products. Studies show it is linked to obesity, diabetes, ADHD and more. read below.
The Slow POISONING OF MANKIND by John Erb
We the public do not want to be rats in one giant experiment!
MSG. The food additive MSG (Mono-Sodium Glutamate) is a slowpoison. MSG hides behind 25 or more names, such as ‘NaturalFlavoring.’
MSG is even in your favorite coffee from Tim Horton’s andStarbucks coffee shops!
I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing themassive obesity epidemic, and so did a friend of mine, John Erb. Hewas a research assistant at the University of Waterloo inOntario ,Canada , and spent years working for the government. He made anamazing discovery while going through scientific journals for a bookhe was writing called The Slow Poisoning of America .
In hundreds of studies around the world, scientists werecreating obese mice and rats to use in diet or diabetes test studies.No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese, so scientists have tocreate them. They make these creatures morbidly obese by injectingthem 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 aname for the fat rodents they create: ‘MSG-Treated Rats.’
When I heard this, I was shocked. I went into my kitchen andchecked the cupboards and the refrigerator. MSG was in everything –the Campbell ’s soups, theHostess Doritos, the Lays flavored potatochips, 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 didn’t have MSG marked on the product labelhad something called ‘Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein,’ which is justanother name for Monosodium Glutamate.
It was shocking to see just how many of the foods we feed ourchildren everyday are filled with this stuff. MSG is hidden undermany different names in order to fool those who read the ingredientlist, so that they don’t catch on. (Other names for MSG are ‘Accent,‘Aginomoto,’ ‘Natural Meat Tenderizer,’ etc.)
But it didn’t stop there.
When our family went out to eat, we started asking at therestaurants what menu items contained MSG. Many employees, eventhemanagers, swore they didn’t use MSG.
But when we asked for the ingredient list, which theygrudgingly provided, sure enough, MSG and Hydrolyzed VegetableProtein were everywhere.
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. Kentucky FriedChicken seemed to be the WORST offender: MSG was in every chickendish, salad dressing. and gravy. No wonder I loved 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 apreservative, or a vitamin?
Not according to my friend John Erb. In his book The SlowPoisoning of America , he said that MSG is added to food for theaddictive effect it has on the human body.
Even thepropaganda website sponsored by the foodmanufacturers lobby group supporting MSG explains that the reasonthey add it to food is to make people eat more.
A study of the elderly showed that older people eat more ofthe foods that it is added to. The Glutamate Association lobbyinggroup says eating more is a benefit to the elderly, but what does itdo to the rest of us?
‘Betcha can’t eat [just] one,’ takes on a whole newmeaningwhere MSG is concerned! And we wonder why the nation is overweight!
MSG manufacturers themselves admit that it addicts people totheir 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 isan addictive substance. Since its introduction into the Americanfood supply fiftyyears ago, MSG has been added in larger and largerdoses to the pre-packaged meals, soups, snacks, and fast foods we aretempted to eat everyday.
The FDA has set no limits on how much of it can be added tofood. They claim it’s safe to eat in any amount. But how can theyclaim it’s safe when there are hundreds of scientific studies withtitles like these:
‘The monosodium glutamate (MSG) obese rat as a model for thestudy of exercise in obesity.’ Gobatto CA, Mello MA, Souza CT ,Ribeiro IA. Res Commun Mol Pathol Pharmacol. 2002.
‘Adrenalectomy abolishes the food-induced hypothalamicserotonin release in both normal and monosodium glutamate-obeserats.’ Guimaraes RB, Telles MM, Coelho VB, Mori C, Nascimento CM,Ribeiro.
Brain Res Bull. 2002 Aug.
‘Obesity induced by neonatal monosodium glutamate treatmentin spontaneouslyhypertensive rats: An animal model of multiple riskfactors.’ Iwase M, Yamamoto M, Iino K, Ichikawa K, Shinohara N,Yoshinari Fujishima. Hypertens Res. 1998 Mar.
‘Hypothalamic lesion induced by injection of monosodiumglutamate 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 waspublished in 1978. Both the ‘medical research community’ and‘foodmanufacturers’ have known about the side effects of MSG for decades.
Many more of the studies mentioned in John Erb’s book linkMSG to diabetes, migraines and headaches, autism, ADHD, and evenAlzheimer’s.
So what can we do to stop the food manufactures from dumpingthis fattening and addictive MSG into our food supply and causing theobesity epidemic we nowsee?
Several months ago, John Erb took his book and his concernsto 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.’ Butthistop-level government official refuses to tell the public what heknows.
The big media doesn’t want to tell the public either, fearingissues with their advertisers. It seems that the fallout on the fastfood industry may hurt their profit margin. The food producers andrestaurants have been addicting us to their products for years, andnow we are paying the price for it. Our children should not becursed with obesity caused by an addictive food additive.
But what can I do about it? I’m just one voice! What can Ido to stop the poisoning of our children, while our governmentsareinsuring financial protection for the industry that is poisoning us?
This message is going out to everyone I know in an attempt to tellyou the truth that the corporate-owned politicians and media won’ttell you.
The best way you can help to save yourself and your childrenfrom this drug-induced epidemic is to forward this article toeveryone. With any luck, it will circle the globe before politicianscan 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 someoneblew the whistle on nicotine?
If you are one of the few who can still believe that MSG isgood for us and you don’t believe what John Erb has to say, see foryourself. Go to the National Library of Medicine atwww.pubmed.com.
Type in the words ‘MSG Obese’ and read a few of the 115medical 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 linewhile waiting for the heart transplant, the diabetic-inducedamputation, 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 overthe world and stop this ‘Slow Poisoning of Mankind’ by the packagedfood industry.
Blowing the whistle on MSG is our responsibility, so get the wordout.

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