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Healthy Home Economist / Healthy Living / Why Can’t the FDA Just Call A Spade a Spade?

Why Can’t the FDA Just Call A Spade a Spade?

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔


A huge food recall is brewing yet again. Does it involve any products from locally produced, small family farms? Of course not. These huge, expensive, and frightening food recalls involve products produced in factories, where food is not only denatured, rendered nutritionless, and exposed to pathogenic bacteria, but also where a plethora of additives and chemicals are added to tantalize the consumer with fake flavors and aromas.

This latest food recall involves a flavor enhancer called “hydrolyzed vegetable protein” (HVP) that is apparently contaminated with salmonella and used in thousands upon thousands of processed foods including soups, sauces, processed meats, canned chilis, gravies, snack foods, dips, and even salad dressing among many others. What the FDA has so far refused to acknowledge with this latest recall is that this “flavor enhancer” is really good ‘ole MSG, that’s right MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, the deadly neurotoxin that shrivels and kills brain cells in the hypothalamus (brain stem) and has been linked to migraines, seizures, ADD/ADHD, heart palpitations, tremors, and many, many other symptoms ranging from mild to life threatening.
MSG is most dangerous for young children to consume, as the blood brain barrier has not yet fully developed. Keeping your children off processed foods containing MSG is of paramount importance to protect their young, developing brains.
MSG is also linked with obesity. Newborn mice injected with MSG became morbidly obese, most likely due to the irreparable damage this neurotoxin causes to the hypothalamus – that part of the brain involved in metabolism. It also caused sterility when the female mice reached maturity. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/164/3880/719
Admitting that this recall involves none other than MSG would be to acknowledge just how far and wide this dangerous food additive has penetrated into our food supply. Calling a spade a spade would also tip off the consumer to the widespread, misleading, and completely unethical use of MSG aliases in ingredients labeling with the sole purpose of fooling the general public. To view a list of the most commonly used MSG aliases, go to this link and click on “hidden names for MSG”: http://msgmyth.com/
Don’t be fooled by the games of the food processing industry and the FDA! If you are still eating the types of processed foods involved in this scary recall, use this opportunity to change your eating habits to not only to protect yourself from salmonella, but also to protect your brain from the ravaging effects of MSG. Switching to whole, organic foods prepared by traditional methods is something that is a major step forward for the health of your brain as well as your body.
For information and support on how to make this transition, contact your local Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader (http://westonaprice.org/).
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her eBooks Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Bethanne Elion

    Mar 7, 2010 at 7:01 pm

    amen

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  2. Sarah, the Healthy Home Economist

    Mar 5, 2010 at 4:38 pm

    A great book to read on the subject of MSG and its devastating effects on the human body is "Excitotoxins" by Dr. Russell Blaylock MD

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