In mid March, 2008, we welcomed Forbes to the ranks of the American media promoting the use of neurotoxic and endocrine disrupting MSG in processed food.  On March 24, the glutes found a home for yet another writer, Stevenson Swanson, who seems to have taken some industry  advertising dressed up as news, and pass it on to the very glutamate-industry-friendly Chicago Tribune.

Stevenson's article is really something special. He says that "...rigorous scientific studies have cleared [monosodium glutamate] of [causing adverse reactions]" when that simply is not true.  There are no "rigorous scientific studies" -- unless you call lacing the placebos in their double blind studies with the neurotoxic aspartic acid found in aspartame to be rigorous.  Aspartame!  It  kills brain cells.  It's an endocrine disrupter.  And it causes reactions similar to, if not identical to, the adverse reactions caused by monosodium glutamate. 

Did the American media report on the August, 2008 report of He et al. in the journal Obesity, demonstrating that MSG used in food may be associated with increased risk of obesity?  I sure didn't see it.

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IF MSG ISN'T HARMFUL, WHY IS IT HIDDEN?