Share The Wealth by Chris Gupta
May 13, 2005

MSG Causes Most Obesity but Congress Grants Immunity to Food Producers


"Even as you read this, George W. Bush and his corporate supporters are pushing a Bill through Congress, and it's 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."...

Like aspartame MSG is another excitotoxin that has a synergistic and additive effect with aspartame.

Lets see... making people fat makes them eat more and addicting people makes them eat even more... Bingo more sales! Now if we could just get rid of the regulations. The trend continues from vaccines, then pesticides and now foods, the regulatory machinery is now nearly completely usurped by the vested interests. Their mandate to protect public is nothing more than a pretense to do the bidding for their industry friends who as usual laugh all the way to the bank....

Chris Gupta

----- Original Message -----
From: JeffMSolomon@xx.com
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 10:45 PM
Subject: Political and Health News. Congress to Grant Immunity to Food Producers

MSG Causes Most Obesity In US And Canada

By John Erb
5-2-5

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.

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 race of 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 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.

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. Even the propaganda website sponsored by the food manufacturers lobby group supporting MSG at:

www.msgfacts.com/facts/msgfact12.html

explains that the reason they add it to food is to make people eat more.

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?

'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!

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

= = = = =

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. August 2002

= = = = =

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. March 1998

= = = = =

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. October 1978

= = = = =

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, and it's 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:

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."

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 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 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.

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 governments 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.

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 www.pubmed.com

Type in the words "MSG Obese", and read a few of the articles for yourself.

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.

Put an end to this, and stop the Slow Poisoning of America. Let's save our children.

John Erb

 


posted by Chris Gupta on Friday May 13 2005
updated on Saturday September 24 2005

URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2005/05/13/msg_causes_most_obesity_but_congress_grants_immunity_to_food_producers.htm

 

 


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Readers' Comments


Thank you Chris!

In DK some of the same medical doctors who have (wrongly) adviced people on what to eat are the same ones calling overweight a "disease" and "an epidemic" and researching to find the "magical medicinal potion" which can reduce (over)weight in children and adults, so one could also say:

Lets see... making people fat makes them eat more and addicting people makes them eat even more...creating an overweight "epidemic"...and the solution is: pharmaceutical medicines!

Kind regards,

Tamara Theresa Mosegaard

Posted by: MayDay on May 15, 2005 04:09 AM

 


Yep, cool article Chris!
Can confirm what you are writing here...

Posted by: Jenna Ambien on May 16, 2005 01:02 AM

 


This is sensationalism. The amount of MSG you have to feed a rat to make it obese is insane. If I injected an amount of MSG about the size of my forearm into my body at some random point, yeah I think I would get a lesion, too.

If MSG is causing obesity then why isn't obesity a problem in China and Korea WHERE EVERYONE EATS MSG WITHOUT STIGMA. Instead, obesity there is extremely rare and more likely due to genetics.

Get your facts right, and look at the extensive scientific studies that have been performed using HUMAN SUBJECTS measuring their MSG intake, and don't make specious accusations just because you think you found an answer.

Maybe obesity is caused by laziness and diets unmonitored by PARENTS that allow children to consume excessively high amounts of fat and oil. There's your elusive obesity ingredients, hardly MSG.

Response:

You need to read:-

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills particularly the comments. It is only sensationalism for those who are being slowly boiled to their determent particularly the children or those who may be less sensitive such as the Chinese yet even they traditionally used the more natural variety in small amounts possibly with protective cofactors - not so now - they have the one of the highest Cancer rates in the world!

Regarding fats, the science its mostly marketing for synthetic junk that not only makes you fat but causes cancer big time. Read Oiling of America.

Chris

Posted by: TJW on March 2, 2008 06:33 AM

 


For a long time, people have believed that we should eat what Asian people do because they have such a low obesity rate. For instance, when he introduced the Atkins diet, Atkins was asked why Asians eat so much white rice and are still thin. Scientists have discovered that Asians actually have a genetic resistance to obesity that the rest of us were not blessed with.

Posted by: Asians on December 31, 2010 10:33 AM

 















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