Russian Roulette
MSG and aspartame – ‘friends’ on the top ten
MSG and aspartame have a lot in common. Both contain an essential ingredient that is an excitotoxic — brain damaging — amino acid. And you’ll find both on more and more “top ten” lists of food additives to avoid.
The editors of Prevention list MSG and aspartame on their 10 food additives to never ever eat, calling FDA loopholes for “testing and approval” “just plain dangerous.”
https://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/a20480944/worst-food-additives/
The website Food Matters includes MSG and aspartame on its Top ten food additives to avoid list, saying MSG is a “known excitotoxin, a substance which overexcites cells to the point of damage or death.”
https://www.foodmatters.com/article/top-10-food-additives-to-avoid
Dr. Sears says to avoid MSG and aspartame “for the brain health of your family,” also noting that “excitotoxins can alter the chemistry of the brain.”
And a blog done by The Underground Health Reporter also notes MSG and aspartame as number one and two on their list of The 10 worst food ingredients.
http://undergroundhealthreporter.com/the-10-worst-food-ingredients/
It’s not just coincidental that they appear together, because the essential ingredient in each is an excitotoxic – brain damaging – amino acid.
California: Don’t just cherry-pick toxic food additives to ban!
A new article by Dr. Joseph Mercola reports that California lawmakers are hoping to ban five toxic chemicals used in the manufacture of many processed foods. Combined, the chemicals damage the central nervous system, disrupt the gut microbiome and are linked to hyperactivity in children.
While it’s always a good idea to focus on cleaning up our food supply, why did California stop there? Sure, banning five toxic chemicals used in the manufacture of processed food is great. But what about banning excitotoxic – brain damaging — manufactured free glutamate? Scientists have known since 1969 that monosodium glutamate contains brain-damaging free glutamate (1). And now we know that brain-damaging free glutamate is responsible for both the obesity epidemic and the infertility crisis (2). Shouldn’t monosodium glutamate be included in the list of toxic chemicals to be banned instead of being added without restriction to processed food with the blessings of the FDA?
It’s a question we have repeatedly asked the FDA without getting so much as a response. Our research has demonstrated that for over a half-a-century the FDA has served as a pawn of the glutamate industry (3). The fiction of the safety of MSG and its manufactured free glutamate component was written by the United States manufacturer of MSG, and has been parroted by the FDA to consumers, healthcare professionals, journalists, legislators, foreign health care agencies, the media and those who write “MSG is safe to eat” propaganda, without any one of them raising a question.
Read Dr. Mercola’s article: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/california-law-toxic-chemicals-processed-foods-cola/
Other things in which you might be interested include:
Olney, J. W. Brain Lesions, Obesity, and Other Disturbances in Mice Treated with Monosodium Glutamate. Science. 1969, 164(3880), 719–721. DOI: 10.1126/science.164.3880.719.
Samuels, A. There are seven lines of evidence leading to the conclusion that the manufactured free glutamate (MfG) in monosodium glutamate is toxic. https://www.truthinlabeling.org/assets/seven_lines.pdf
Samuels, A. Industry’s FDA https://www.truthinlabeling.org/assets/industrys_fda_final.pdf
Citizens Petitions to the FDA (click the “download” buttons to view each petition) and please leave a comment at the FDA site!
https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2021-P-0035-0001
https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2021-P-0267-0001
https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2021-P-0301-0001
Samuels, A. (2020) Dose dependent toxicity of glutamic acid: a review, International Journal of Food Properties, 23:1, 412-419, DOI: 10.1080/10942912.2020.1733016
Samuels, A. The Toxicity/safety of Processed Free Glutamic Acid (MSG): A Study in Suppression of Information. Accountability Res. 1999, 6. http://www.truthinlabeling.org/l-manuscript.html Accessed Jan/19/2020. 259–310. doi:10.1080/08989629908573933.
Samuels, A “Glutamic acid: initiator of the obesity epidemic” https://www.truthinlabeling.org/assets/obesity_review_shortened_final_with_reference.pdf
Excitotoxic free glutamate eaten by pregnant women and passed to fetuses is responsible for the obesity epidemic. The Perfect Poison tells it all. Available in both paperback and Kindle editions.
Samuels, A. The Perfect Poison https://www.truthinlabeling.org/perfect_poison.html
References
- Olney, J. W. Brain Lesions, Obesity, and Other Disturbances in Mice Treated with Monosodium Glutamate. Science. 1969, 164(3880), 719–721. DOI: 10.1126/science.164.3880.719.
- Samuels, A. There are seven lines of evidence leading to the conclusion that the manufactured free glutamate (MfG) in monosodium glutamate is toxic. https://www.truthinlabeling.org/assets/seven_lines.pdf
- Samuels, A. Industry’s FDA: https://www.truthinlabeling.org/assets/industrys_fda_final.pdf