MSG a Food Additive is a Slow Poison

This was sent to me by a friend today. I checked out some web sites and found a couple of others on the subject. What a sneaky underhanded way to create sick people. Profiteers.

You are what you eat for sure.

 MSG - used in Coffee - (read this for sure) please read
this. It is startling!! Food additive "MSG" is a Slow Poison. Slow Poisoning
MSG hides behind 25 or more names, such as "Natural Flavoring".

 MSG is also in your favorite Tim Horton's and other
brand coffee shops! Pass this on to those who still may be unaware
or disbelieving of the dangers of MSG. 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 in 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 ". 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 fat
rodents they create: "MSG-Treated Rats".

 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 marked on the product
label 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 carefully read the
ingredient list, so they don't catch on. (Other names for MSG:
 'Accent' - 'Aginomoto' - 'Natural Meet Tenderizer' etc)
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 was in
every chicken dish, 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 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” he said that MSG is added to food for the addictive
effect it has on the human body.

 http://www.spofamerica.com/

 Even the propaganda website sponsored by the food
manufacturers lobby group supporting MSG at:
 http://www.msgfactscom/facts/msgfact12.html explains
that the reason they add it to food is to make people eat more. A
study of the elderly 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? 'Bet you 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! Since its introduction into the
American
 food supply fifty years ago, MSG has been added in
larger and larger doses to the pre-packaged 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 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.

 Adrenalectomy abolishes the food-induced hypothalamic
 serotonin release in both normal and monosodium
glutamate-obese rats'. Guimaraes RB, Telles MM, Coelho VB, Mori C,
Nascimento CM, Ribeiro Brain Res Bull. 2002 Aug.

 Obesity induced by neonatal monosodium glutamate
treatment in spontaneously hypertensive rats: an animal model of
multiple risk factors'.

 Iwase M, 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 about 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, G. 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 that
they purposely added an addictive chemical to their foods.

 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'.

 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 fast food industry may hurt their profit margin. 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 our governments are insuring financial protection for the
industry that is poisoning us!

 This e-mail is going out to everyone I know in an
attempt to tell you the truth that the corporate owned politicians
and media won't tell you.

 The best way you can help to 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
politicians can 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 someone blew the whistle on Nicotine?

 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/. Type in the words "MSG Obese"
and read a few of the 115 medical studies that appear.

This one of them

 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 line, while waiting for the heart transplant, diabetic
induced amputation, 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 print-out to all your friends all
over the world and stop this 'Slow Poisoning of Mankind' by the
packaged food industry.

Here is another site with Information about this as well

Information about obesity and other effects of processed free glutamic acid (MSG) and where it is hidden in cosmetics, drugs, dietary supplements, vaccines, infant formula, and food fed to people and animals. Loads of Information at this site.

http://www.truthinlabeling.org/

 Blowing the whistle on MSG is our responsibility, get
the word out.