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Monosodium Glutamate excitotoxins book

MSG - Slowly Poisoning America

Kathleen O'Bannon, CNC

Nutritionist, Speaker, Author, CEO of Health Alive! (Healing the world, one person at a time)and The Healing Power of Love, a Nutritional and Spiritual Approach to Wellness and Vitality.

I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing a massive obesity epidemic, so did John Erb.  He was a research assistant at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and spent years working for the government.  He made an amazing discovery while going through scientific journals for a book he was writing called The Slow Poisoning of America. 


Book by: Dr. Russell Blaylock M.D Human Health Risks book


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 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?

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 Cupcakes, the Doritos, the Lays 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. 


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They hide MSG under many different names in order to fool those who catch on.  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 asked 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 was in every chicken dish, salad dressing and gravy.  No wonder I loved to eat the coating on the skin, their secret spice was MSG! 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 his book, (www.spofamerica.com) he says 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 the reason they add it to food is to make people eat more.  A study of elderly people showed people eat more of the foods 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?

'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 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!  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.

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?

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

Obesity induced by neonatal MSG 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

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

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! 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 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 they purposely added an addictive chemical to their foods.

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Read about it for yourself.
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.

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 Bush and his corporate supporters get it through before the media lets everyone know about MSG, the intentional Nicotine for food.

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 the fallout on the fast food industry may hurt their profit margin.  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 you do about it?   The best way you can help yourself and your children from this drug-induced epidemic, is by forwarding information to everyone YOU know, and demanding that restraunts and food processors STOP using MSG. Don't eat where they put it in your food, and don't by items that contain it.

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