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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Food for thought - KFC
KFC has been around since 1930, and MSG did not exist until the 1960's. So how then, is their MSG-laced chicken "the Colonel's secret recipe"?? They literally soak it in MSG, and it is also in the batter! Their food is so high in MSG, even their green beans have it, that they should be called MSG instead of KFC.
Kick off this blog with some food for thought
Supportive links to other articles or sites are welcome. Here is one.
http://www.msgtruth.org/
Let's keep things on topic, to promote awareness of the effects of MSG.
MSG is calorie-free but it is far from danger-free. How could something void of calories be such a big factor in obesity, diabetes, and heart disease? In a nutshell, it is an excitotoxin and a free radical. Free radicals cause oxidative stress on your system. MSG is also a calcium channel opener which means it basically turns all of the switches in your body on, to "fight" mode, even when you are sleeping or sitting down. Voila, overtaxed heart, pancreas, colon, kidneys, and more.
The biggest con is that the glutamate industry tries to defend it saying it doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier. They are right, but that is because it affects an unprotected part of the brain (a part with no barrier), the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is responsible for regulating heartbeat and appetite among other things controlled by the endocrine system. There are glutamate receptors all throughout the body. Glutamate increases cysteine levels. Cysteine competes with taurine uptake. Taurine regulates heartbeat. This is why excess glutamate will give you racing or irregular heartbeat. Expose yourself to that on a daily basis, and voila, heart disease.
Glutamate in very small amounts is pretty harmless. But we aren't getting it in small amounts.
http://www.msgtruth.org/
Let's keep things on topic, to promote awareness of the effects of MSG.
MSG is calorie-free but it is far from danger-free. How could something void of calories be such a big factor in obesity, diabetes, and heart disease? In a nutshell, it is an excitotoxin and a free radical. Free radicals cause oxidative stress on your system. MSG is also a calcium channel opener which means it basically turns all of the switches in your body on, to "fight" mode, even when you are sleeping or sitting down. Voila, overtaxed heart, pancreas, colon, kidneys, and more.
The biggest con is that the glutamate industry tries to defend it saying it doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier. They are right, but that is because it affects an unprotected part of the brain (a part with no barrier), the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is responsible for regulating heartbeat and appetite among other things controlled by the endocrine system. There are glutamate receptors all throughout the body. Glutamate increases cysteine levels. Cysteine competes with taurine uptake. Taurine regulates heartbeat. This is why excess glutamate will give you racing or irregular heartbeat. Expose yourself to that on a daily basis, and voila, heart disease.
Glutamate in very small amounts is pretty harmless. But we aren't getting it in small amounts.
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