You are What You Eat – Know the Poisons that You Eat

How would you feel if you were given evidence of a poison added to many of our foods, even baby food, so that the flavor is improved? How do you feel about having fed this toxin to your baby without being informed? This poison is a known excitotoxin and is known to have adverse effects on the development of the brain, nervous system, and affect your children’s learning abilities and emotional difficulties. Excitotoxins will also influence you! It may change how well you sleep, how much you weigh, give you migraine headaches, and whether you develop a stroke, a neurological condition, or a brain tumor. This food additive is a taste enhancer so you begin to addictively want to eat it over and over again.

This poison has several names so you need to read labels and look for MSG (monosodium glutamate), natural flavors, aspartame, and hydrolyzed vegetable protein. I would think it would be upsetting for most of us to learn that well known powerful brain toxins are being added to our food and drink for the purpose of boosting sales. The powerful additives have no other purpose than to enhance the taste of food and the sweetness of various diet products.

In this article, I want to share with you very important information regarding the history and the hiding of these excitotoxin chemicals in our food supply. In case you wish for more information I refer you to two books; Excitotoxins The Taste that Kills by Russell Blaylock, M.D. and The Slow Poisoning of America by John Erb. For further research you can go to the National Library of Medicine at www.pubmed.com and type in the words “MSG obese” and read 115 of the medical studies.

An excitotoxin is a substance added to foods and beverages that literally stimulates neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees. The food industry disguises many of these excitotoxin additives so they will not be recognized. In fact many foods and restaurants claim “No MSG” but actually do have it added to their foods.

MSG originated from Japan and is made from seaweed known as sea tangle or kombu. It shortly turned into a worldwide multi million dollar industry with Ajinomoto Company at the center. Soon all the giants of the food industry were adding millions of pounds of MSG each year to processed foods. Initially it was thought to be safe since it was a natural substance, an amino acid. By the end of the 1960′s research data began to appear demonstrating the dangers of MSG.

Ten years later, John Olney M.D., a neuroscientist conducted a test and discovered MSG caused brain damage in the hypothalamus after a single dose. At this time millions of babies all over the world were eating baby food containing large amounts of MSG and hydrolyzed vegetable protein. Dr Olney informed the FDA but they refused to take action. It was only after his testimony before a Congressional committee that food manufacturers agreed to remove MSG from baby food. The hydrolyzed vegetable protein, however, remained which is made up of three excitotoxins including MSG. This practice continued seven more years. Now it still remains in baby foods in the form of caseinate, beef or chicken broth, or flavoring.

Another source of excitotoxin is in the artificial sweetners, including Nutrasweet and Splenda. Forty percent of the these artificial sweeteners is the excitotoxin, aspartate. Like glutamate of MSG, it is a brain toxin. When the brain neurons are exposed to these substances, they become very excited and fire their impulses very rapidly until they reach a state of extreme exhaustion. Several hours later these neurons in the brain die as if excited to death.

In the past few decades, there has been an acute rise in neurological conditions such as ADD and Autism in our children and degenerative nerve diseases in adults including Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, and ALS. There is growing evidence that excitotoxins play a major role in these diseases. If properly informed, would we sacrifice our health and that of our children for taste enhancement? Look at the labels for all soups and sauces, flavored potato chips, hamburger helper, frozen prepared meals, salad dressings, especially in low fat, low calorie ones, diet foods and drinks. Flavor enhancers are found in foods everywhere including Burger King, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, Denny’s, Applebee’s, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. It will be in most restaurants in one form or another and the employees may not know it. Other names for MSG are Accent, Aginomoto, and natural meat tenderizer. Be aware and inform others of the dangers. Make decisions with this new awareness to protect yourself and others you know against these toxic poisons.

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