Avoid the hidden fattener!....Today's post:  Thursday, 7-19-2018

Tuesday this week I got an email from the Health Sciences Institute which opens with this:

"It's the tried-and-true way to make an adult rat fat: Give it a shot of monosodium glutamate when it's a baby!

This isn't a brand-new discovery, either. It's how scientists "create" rats to fit experiments they want to conduct -- say for an obesity drug or something to do with diabetes.

This is common knowledge in the research world."

But when that insider information leaked out a number of years ago, those who profit from the use and sale of MSG were in a panic. And they've been trying to undo the damage ever since.

The latest effort is coming from a team of U.S. researchers who are attempting to tell us not only that we needn't worry about MSG-spiked foods making us fat... but that deliberately consuming this toxic food additive will result in eating less and making "wiser food choices" that will help us stay thin and healthy!

That, however, is some very dangerous advice.

Because not only is MSG still regarded as a well-known cause of obesity, but considering all of the other ways it can harm your body -- and especially your brain -- packing on the pounds may well be the least of your worries.

And that's why you need to remain as diligent as ever in eliminating every single source of this neurotoxic flavor enhancer from your diet by knowing -- and avoiding -- the names it hides behind.”

My comments:

MSG and related compounds do make many harmful but tasty semi-foods and foods sold for profit more addictive.

But MSG is so fattening it adds excess fat to you even if you do not eat more food!

That’s apparently because MSG is toxic to your mitochondria that produce all the energy all the cells of your body run on. 

A study of food in China found that people eating no or little MSG were lighter and far less fat than people eating the same food and the same number of calories where the food had lots of MSG.

This effect of MSG is a direct cause of increased aging and heart disease and heart failure.  It even makes it harder to recover from getting sick with the flu and worse diseases.

MSG is also quite harmful to you a second way.

It strongly boosts excess, chronic, inflammation which causes Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease, and makes type 2 diabetes and type 1 diabetes more harmful. 

High chronic inflammation also tends to cause problems for women in early menopause --including extra fat gain; and it causes some cancer and boosts most of them once they occur.

This very strong inflammation boost also helps cause AFIB where your heart beats very fast without slowing down.  This tends to cause heart failure and triggers strokes and heart attacks.

Here’s what the Health Sciences Institute also said:

“In May, I told you about a widespread media disinformation campaign that was trying to convince us that MSG is perfectly harmless.

This propaganda was all over the place, especially on Facebook. And now it's back with a vengeance.

The latest example is coming from researchers with some hefty credentials to flaunt -- Harvard Medical School and its affiliated hospital, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. 

But this kind of industry-sponsored hype is just as dangerous no matter what prestigious institutions it's coming from.

And what these researchers are telling us isn't even a half-truth... it's 100 percent wrong!

If you simply read the headlines, ones such as "Monosodium glutamate could actually be key to healthy eating," it sounds like some kind of scientific finding was made. 

But dive a little deeper, and you'll soon discover that this entire "study" really amounted to nothing at all.

The researchers followed 35 women (who were wearing special glasses that tracked their eye movements) around a buffet. Before setting them loose in the food line, however, half were given chicken soup laced with MSG. 

According to the "findings," the women in the glutamate soup group had "more focused gazes during the meal" (you can't make this stuff up!) and made better food choices -- "less saturated fats," according to these academic dimwits.

They also measured the brain activity in the MSG group as they selected foods, finding more "engagement" in certain areas of the brain in those who drank the MSG soup.

And that may be the only legitimate piece of information to come out of this drivel.

That's because MSG (along with aspartame) is a known poison for the brain, one called an excitotoxin -- meaning a substance that can literally "excite" your brain cells to death.

So, yes, they should have expected to see that brain "engagement." But what did it really mean? If we go by decades of past true scientific studies, it could have been a disastrous glutamate "storm" going on inside their heads!

This so-called research, which was funded by Ajinomoto, the leading manufacturer of MSG, won't be last you hear about turning this dangerous substance into something beneficial.

What will they say next -- MSG can make pigs fly?

As studies go, however, I'd give more credibility to people who claim to have seen Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster!

And along with its connection to obesity and neurotoxic effects, MSG has also been found to trigger asthma, eye problems, migraines, an irregular type of heartbeat called a-fib, and promote the growth of cancer cells, making it more likely that a cancer will metastasize.”

They then go on to say what to look for on the label to avoid it.

But since the makers of MSG know that some people know to avoid it and it’s not yet illegal to add to food or fail to disclose it has been added, I’ve found that it is far easier to avoid the foods it is commonly added to –

-- and to never buy a condiment or spice blend that lists “spices” or even “natural organic spices” on the label!

How common is this?  Every major brand of mustard I checked listed “spices” including Annie’s Naturals after Kraft bought them.

Health Food stores and Whole Foods sell Organicville yellow mustard.  It only lists the normal ingredients of mustard.  It does NOT add spices.  It works well as mustard too.

I’ve eaten some recently.

You also get a health and fatloss bonus by avoiding the foods MSG is almost always added to!

The rest of those foods are harmful or fattening -- and usually both -- besides having tons of MSG added!

Those foods are made out of proinflammatory refined grain hybrid wheat or contain herbicides and GMO ingredients or pro-inflammatory omega 6 oils or hydrogenated oils and excess sugar and high fructose corn syrup and the even more fattening artificial sweeteners.

Bottled salad dressing, for example, besides “spices” contain soy oil from soy that is from GMO grain and heavily sprayed with glyphosate containing herbicides.

Almost all foods in fast food restaurants and chain restaurants and even some better quality restaurants contain lots of MSG.

Most unfortunately, pizza and Thanksgiving turkeys are loaded with MSG.

You can make a good tasting pizza style food without grains and with cheeses and meats from animals fed their natural foods.  So you can still have pizza that is quite good without hybrid wheat or MSG.  But so far you have to make it at home.

I don’t yet know a work around for Thanksgiving turkey. 

Needle tenderized and slow cooked New Zealand grass fed lamb is quite good for holidays. 

But it would be nice to be able to have turkey with no MSG from turkeys fed only on unpolluted pasture.

I found out that Distel who talks a good game loads their Thanksgiving turkeys with MSG.

So, knowing why to avoid MSG, knowing why to avoid MSG; and always avoiding it is a double acting force for fat loss and avoiding fat gain!