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- From: bkwg0457@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Whitlock)
- Subject: Re: MSG
- References: <1992Jul22.165731.23990@walter.bellcore.com> <1992Jul22.173124.1309@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:44:35 GMT
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- nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Jul22.165731.23990@walter.bellcore.com>
- >jchen@cash.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Jason Chen) writes:
- >> In article <1992Jul22.164206.732@cs.yale.edu>,
- >nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
- >> |> In article <1992Jul22.144117.20399@walter.bellcore.com>
- >> |> jchen@cash.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Jason Chen) writes:
- >> |> >
- >> |> > There is no clinical evidence to link MSG to any health problem to a
- >> |> > normal person. Even for those who are allergic to it, the symptoms are
- >> |> > typically short and mild. Very few had strong reactions, none has died
- >> |> > from consuming it.
- >> |>
- >> |> Nor is there any good reason to use it. If the food is fresh,
- >> |> you won't need to make your tongue swollen with MSG to enjoy
- >> |> the taste.
- >> |>
- >> I certainly agree that MSG is not a neccesity of your life. Nor are
- >> hot pepper, parsley, cinnamon, or even sugar. As a matter of fact,
- >> salt and sugar do more harm to your body than MSG.
-
- >Salt and sugars are naturally occurring substances within
- >the human body; MSG is not. In reasonable quantities,
-
- Sucrose isn't a naturally occurring substance within the human body.
- Other sugars, yes.
-
- >salts and sugars pose no harm to the body. MSG is a highly
-
- Sucrose accelerates tooth decay in the quantities used in sweetening
- processed foods.
-
- >concentrated substance derived from a natural
- >substance. Hot peppers, spices, etc have inherent taste;
-
- Sucrose is a highly concentrated substance derived from a natural
- substance (sugar cane) just as MSG is derived from seaweed.
-
- >MSG does not, it just makes your tongue swollen.
-
- As I understand it, the whole point in using MSG is because of its
- inherent taste.
-
- >IMHO, Avoid it in any quantity.
-
- IMHO, if it doesn't give you headaches or other reactions, don't
- worry about it.
-
- >--
- >Nathan Janette "I'm a NeXTstep man,
- >Dept MB&B, Yale Univ I'm a NeXTcube guy"
- >New Haven, CT
- >nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
-
- --
- * * * * * * --> DISCLAIMER: I speak only for myself. <-- * * * * * *
- Brent Whitlock Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology
- bwhitlock@uiuc.edu Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-