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From: [email protected] (Richard Clark)
Subject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?
>[email protected] (Charles Packer) writes:
>
>>Is there such a thing as MSG (monosodium glutamate) sensitivity?
>>I saw in the NY Times Sunday that scientists have testified before
>>an FDA advisory panel that complaints about MSG sensitivity are
>>superstition. Anybody here have experience to the contrary?
>
>>I'm old enough to remember that the issue has come up at least
>>a couple of times since the 1960s. Then it was called the
>>"Chinese restaurant syndrome" because Chinese cuisine has
>>always used it.
>
My blood pressure soars, my heart pounds, and I can't get to sleep
for the life of me... feels about like I just drank 8 cups of coffee.
I avoid it, and beet sugar, flavor enhancers, beet powder, and
whatever other names it may go under. Basicaly I read the ingredients, and
if I don't know what they all are, I don't buy the product.
MSG sensitivity is definately *real*.
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