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From: richard@tis.com (Richard Clark)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.med,rec.food.cooking,sci.environment
Subject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?
Date: 16 Apr 1993 21:00:03 GMT
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>packer@delphi.gsfc.nasa.gov (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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