September 22, 2010 08:54AM
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Rich Wrote:
> Note: MSG is Mono Sodium Glutamate. It is also on
> food labels as "Natural Flavor".
rofl
There are, at my last count, some 43 common names that MSG can hide under
Natural Flavor, Natural Spice, etc.
That is, assuming you're taking the more broadly meant 'denatured protein' as the set... because then you add *anything* that includes the prefixes hydro- or auto-, or suffixes -lyze, -lyzed, or any 'extractive' of a source that contains proteins (which a lot of plants do), or the ubiquitious (sp?) 'Malted Barley' (malted anything really, including malto- prefix, maltodextrin for example)
I can find and cite medical studies showing the relationship of any of these back into the same issue that MSG has... essentially it's a nuero-toxin that penetrates the blood-brain barrier to over-stimulate certain nuerons relating to the sensations of 'flavor' within food.
Lifelong exposure is (circumstantially currently) showing relations to various 'elderly' disorders such as parkinsons or alzheimers as well as migraines in sensitive people (linked to the gene as cited above)
Oh, and fyi, Glutamate itself is actually innocuous. Monosodioum Glutamate isn't. There is a L-Glutamic acid present in many of the items I mentioned (such as autolyzed yeast extractives) that is one of the denatured proteins I mentioned.
These are, universally, considered to be 'food additives' in america, and there is very little regulation regarding them (hence the many names for only a handful of sources). They can be listed as flavor enhancers, preservatives, or even 'spice' (not all 'spices' on ingredient labels are bad, but why hide your spices??)
My fiance used to have migraines approximately 7-9 times in a month (and had been for nearly 10 years) With no visit to the doctor, just some very strenuous research on my part, we reduced that to 1-2 migraines every two months by eliminating those items above from any foods we bought. Finally got her to go see a nuerologist, who prescribed 'gabopentin' (which isn't specifically 'for' migraines) and she's not had one for nearly a year now.
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