More Scare Tactics? Hardly.

[kukla_tko]

I am sure that some of you think I am being alarmist and silly about my hatred of MSG. I have posted information about it.

Fact: MSG is a neuro-stimulator, and in fact, a Neuro-toxin.

Fact: Pregnant women and children are consuming more and more of the stuff every year.

Fact: There is an "explosion" in the number of children being born with Autism spectrum disorders. (About 1 in every 200.)

Now, I don't think that MSG is solely responsible for Autism. I do think that Autism has been around longer than the FDA approval of MSG. However, I can't shake the creeping horrors and dreadful feeling that it is contributing to our damaged children, the ones with Autism and the rise of ADHD.

My SO's son has been diagnosed with attention deficit disorders. He has been on and off medication for it. His daughter is starting to show signs of it.

And do you know what those kids eat all the time? Canned soup. Breaded Chicken Fingers. Hot Dogs. Budding Lunchmeat. Ranch Dressing. ALL LOADED WITH MSG. I know, I have to be extra careful not to consume the stuff myself.

I do my best to not eat food with MSG added to it. It is a difficult thing to do while on a budget. (Side note: The poor are almost forced to eat MSG in their food but the rich can afford to pay people to cook expensive and exotic meals from scratch. Hmmm.)

I think I am going to have to enforce a ban on MSG in the house and out in the fast-food establishments. Those kids love to eat stuff that is loaded with MSG, and no wonder! Their brains are telling them that it is really tasty and good! Their mouths are happy and the nerves in their tongues are firing like crazy.

No more crap. Not on my watch. I will make real food and feed that to the children. I will offer them steak, and real potatoes. I will offer them home-fried chicken and pork chops. I will offer them sliced turkey breast sandwiches and salad with dressing that we created. I will make them cookies for special occasions, and they will help me put in the ingredients.

And at the "Family Meeting" near the end of the month, I will bring this research to the kids' mother's attention.

Here are some links:

http://www.laleva.org/eng/2004/03/autism_and_adhd_linked_to_addictive_food_additive.html

http://www.autisticsociety.org/article96.html

http://msgtruth.org/autism.htm

Comments

[mztish103.livejournal.com]

OK, sweetie... the poor CAN actually avoid MSG and tons of other additives if they just cook REAL FOOD. You know... the stuff my Nana raised me on... beans. Greens. Meat.

Ok... so she also loved to feed me LARD and POTATOES... but poor folk were raised on carbs and fat. No one knew about *refined carbs* then... NO factory? No refinement.

Not until the IGA and the Piggly Wiggly brought *convenience* to the midwest. Processed foods. WHITE FLOUR, WHITE SUGAR, and it's lesser known cousin, white rice. My Nana grew up with cornbread *not degermed*, molassas and honey. Evil potatoes, I know... but not as easy or common as the above ground foods, perhaps? Onions and carrots were the common food. Although CORN... almost pure sugar, but roughage. Hmmm.

Betty Crocker predated Martha by decades. My Nana beat them both by scores of decades. (of course, in her 90-s, she smoked like a chimney and drank coffee by the gallons.) *sigh*

Natural is good. Backwards is forwards.

[hick0ry.livejournal.com]

you fixated on the same thing I did ... so much for side note.

There's a Community Supported Aggriculture farm near here. I was too late signing up, in March, to become a customer this year, seven months of sacks of fruits, vegetables, seeds, and tubers, from a convenient central pickup weekly, for ten hours work and an afordable chunk of cash. They're an organic farm, as a bonus. Well, next year I'll sign up this year. lol.

I didn't replant for the summer, but I was pretty pleased with growing four months of salad greens and radishes this Winter and Spring for $5 in seed and manure and maybe eight hours total labor. In a square yard of yard.

[hick0ry.livejournal.com]

Of course, I can feel the evil of MSG, when it tells me Doritos are delicious and I must eat more. GAH, run away.