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Why MSG Is Perfectly Safe
BI ^ | Kevin Loria

Posted on 09/01/2014 10:31:37 AM PDT by blam

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To: Qwackertoo

Excitotoxicity due to glutamate occurs as part of the ischemic cascade and is associated with stroke and diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, lathyrism, and Alzheimer’s disease. glutamic acid has been implicated in epileptic seizure

http://www.hmdb.ca/metabolites/HMDB00148

safe as milk...yep!!

a bit of “non scientific news:

My MOM who LOVED Chinese “fast food”.....heavily dosed with MSG...died from ALZHIEMERS btw


21 posted on 09/01/2014 10:42:55 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

MSG doesn’t give me a headache but it makes my heart beat wildly and irregularly. After visiting a cardiologist and being told my heart was fine, the doctor told me to find out what was causing it and avoid it. The crazy heart beats could cause me to have a stroke. I only had to hear that once!

This article is BS.


22 posted on 09/01/2014 10:43:23 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: laplata

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3199346/posts?page=15#15

post 15 above


23 posted on 09/01/2014 10:44:55 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: blam

Total BS. There are many people that don’t efficiently metabolize Glutamates due to an en enzyme deficiency. Glutamates build up in the brain and can cause all sorts of issues. These people should also avoid tomatoes in excess.

Yes, for SOME people MSG is fine, for others it is toxic. ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL.


24 posted on 09/01/2014 10:45:43 AM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: driftdiver

Growing up, my mother flavored her food with Accent (MSG). When she was diagnosed with hypertension, she ditched the Accent because of its sodium content. In those days it appeared that MSG didn’t bother me.

Then some years later I had dinner with friends at a Chinese restaurant. Sometime during the night, I woke up with a massive headache. I tried to get to the bathroom, but I couldn’t walk. Felt like I was having a stroke.

Fortunately, the symptoms subsided, but they scared the tar our of me. No more Asian food and I scour ingredient labels looking for MSG. If MSG is listed, I put the product back.


25 posted on 09/01/2014 10:45:47 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Ditter

We had a person die at a local restaurant a couple years ago due to too much MSG put on the food. The article is industry propaganda.


26 posted on 09/01/2014 10:46:25 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: AppyPappy
I think it is largely in people's heads.

Try this sometime. Don't eat all day. Work outside in the cold doing a lot of physical activity. Come inside and have a big bowl of Chinese chicken soup.

I did that once. Thought I was going to die.

27 posted on 09/01/2014 10:46:35 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: fatnotlazy

see post 15

you may have HAD a mild stroke

http://www.hmdb.ca/metabolites/HMDB00148


28 posted on 09/01/2014 10:47:16 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: AppyPappy

“What some people ascribe to MSG is just simply people responding to the greatly-increased salt and fat in restaurant food.”

Sorry, but I normally eat a high salt, high fat diet. It works well for me. But a visit to a Chinese restaurant can darn near level me...


29 posted on 09/01/2014 10:47:24 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: blam

My oldest son would get seizures a after eating this stuff.


30 posted on 09/01/2014 10:47:32 AM PDT by Dawggie
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To: fatnotlazy
"No more Asian food and I scour ingredient labels looking for MSG. If MSG is listed, I put the product back."

Names of ingredients that contain processed free glutamic acid (MSG)

31 posted on 09/01/2014 10:48:54 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

GOOD to know I’m not the only one that gets a THROBBING MIGRAINE after eating msg.

Thanks.


32 posted on 09/01/2014 10:49:12 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (Barry is but a symptom of the disease that killed this republic. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: AppyPappy

No. MSG sensitivity is a real thing.


33 posted on 09/01/2014 10:49:32 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: blam

It’s good in your first aid kit - rub it into athletes foot sores and it’ll kill the fungus.


34 posted on 09/01/2014 10:50:47 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Dawggie

http://www.hmdb.ca/metabolites/HMDB00148

mentioned in this article!!!


35 posted on 09/01/2014 10:52:01 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Wow! Guess I have to stop eating. :)

Thank you.


36 posted on 09/01/2014 10:53:11 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: driftdiver

My first intro to MSG was working in a kitchen in my HS days. We had a recipie that called for it. Had a #10 container of the stuff. Crystalline form. I put a small taste of it, like you might do with salt, on my tounge.

Big mistake. That stuff is nasty in raw undisputed form. Ever since then, I’ve never been able to handle the stuff. Headaches are the primary symptom. I avoid the stuff like the plague.


37 posted on 09/01/2014 10:53:18 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: blam

Since you probably won’t eat at a Chinese food restaurant if you have a peanut allergy, doesn’t it make sense not to eat there if you have an MSG allergy.


38 posted on 09/01/2014 10:54:06 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Kirkwood

Did you read the article?

Face it, it’s a “I believe this because I believe it” kind of thing. “I get sick therefore it’s the MSG”. I worked for a lady who owned a Chinese restaurant. She told me “People who say No MSG get it anyway. It’s already in there. We just don’t add extra”.


39 posted on 09/01/2014 10:54:39 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: aimhigh

MSG comes under many different names now. I avoid anything that is autolyzed or hydrolyzed. There are 2 other chemicals that have an even worse affect on me that MSG, they are disodium insolate and disodium guyanalate. (spelling??)


40 posted on 09/01/2014 10:54:50 AM PDT by Ditter
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