{"id":2284,"date":"2022-08-16T14:11:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T14:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T14:23:10","slug":"aspartame-the-placebo-used-in-msg-is-safe-studies-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2022\/08\/16\/aspartame-the-placebo-used-in-msg-is-safe-studies-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspartame: the placebo used in \u2018MSG-is-safe\u2019 studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>To make sure the conclusion that MSG is harmless would be beyond reproach, glutamate-industry researchers guaranteed that subjects would react to placebos with the same reactions that are caused by MSG. They did that by using aspartame as the toxic ingredient in their placebos, which worked well for them because the aspartic acid in aspartame and the glutamic acid in MSG cause virtually identical reactions (as well as identical brain damage). Having set that up, glutamate-industry researchers (and the propaganda artists who quote them) will say \u201cThese people aren\u2019t sensitive to MSG, they reacted to the \u2018placebo\u2019 too.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Equal, Nutrasweet, Aspartame Safety? - Original Fox 5 WTTG Broadcast  - Aileen Sirgany\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ELgW4KBY-o4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make sure the conclusion that MSG is harmless would be beyond reproach, glutamate-industry researchers guaranteed that subjects would react to placebos with the same reactions that are caused by MSG. They did that by using aspartame as the toxic ingredient in their placebos, which worked well for them because the aspartic acid in aspartame &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2022\/08\/16\/aspartame-the-placebo-used-in-msg-is-safe-studies-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aspartame: the placebo used in \u2018MSG-is-safe\u2019 studies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122,4,233],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aspartame","tag-msg","tag-placebos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}