{"id":632,"date":"2019-12-29T16:07:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T16:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2019-12-29T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T16:07:22","slug":"the-insanity-of-using-msg-as-a-salt-substitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/29\/the-insanity-of-using-msg-as-a-salt-substitute\/","title":{"rendered":"The insanity of using MSG as a salt-substitute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did the people at Edelman Public Relations (who currently have a multi-million dollar Ajinomoto account) dream up substituting MSG for salt to cut down on sodium intake, or is this a Glutamate Association original to promote sales of MSG?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plenty of \u201csalt is bad for you\u201d articles can be found, such as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"this one at SFgate (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/healthyeating.sfgate.com\/much-sodium-bad-5322.html\" target=\"_blank\">this one at SFgate<\/a> that states: \u201c\u2026 if you consume too much sodium, over time this can lead to potentially serious health problems. Managing your sodium intake is of key importance to maintaining your health and well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, glutamate-industry propaganda almost always contains at least a line or two claiming that MSG contains less sodium than table salt \u2013 without mentioning that MSG contributes to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"brain damage, obesity, infertility, a-fib, migraine headache, asthma, seizures and more. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/recognizingadverse.html#list_adverse\" target=\"_blank\">brain damage, obesity, infertility, a-fib, migraine headache, asthma, seizures and more.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, if you\u2019re trying to manage your sodium intake for health reasons, why on earth would you purposefully ingest products that are loaded with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"brain-damaging, obesity-producing, infertility-causing glutamate? (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/5778021\" target=\"_blank\">brain-damaging, obesity-producing, infertility-causing glutamate?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>If you have questions or comments, we\u2019d love to hear from you. If you have hints for others on how to avoid exposure to MfG, send them along, too, and we\u2019ll put them up on&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Truth-in-Labeling-Campaign-114093959577\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/truthlabeling\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Twitter @truthlabeling<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the people at Edelman Public Relations (who currently have a multi-million dollar Ajinomoto account) dream up substituting MSG for salt to cut down on sodium intake, or is this a Glutamate Association original to promote sales of MSG? Plenty of \u201csalt is bad for you\u201d articles can be found, such as this one at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/29\/the-insanity-of-using-msg-as-a-salt-substitute\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The insanity of using MSG as a salt-substitute&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,25,4,106,163,164,24,37],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-edelmanpr","tag-monosodiumglutamate","tag-msg","tag-salt","tag-sodium","tag-tablesalt","tag-truthinlabelingcampaign","tag-umami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}