Health Warning - Neuro Toxins in our Food by Fabrice (who made the effort to collect lots of material and put it on a flyer all over Bali - thanks!) with an after word from Ni Zain

MSG (Ajinomoto) and Aspartame (Nutra-Sweat, Equal, Spoonful) are in many foods, drinks and restaurants in Bali - The main offenders are: Diet Drinks, some Indonesian Food and Japanese Restaurants

Ajinomoto is a Japanese company now owned by Monsanto from Missouri (pronounced misery) the wonder/suppliers of MSG, Aspartame, Genetically Modified and Agent Orange used in the Vietnam war. Some of the 90 documented symptoms caused by MSG and Aspartame are: Headaches, Migraines, Dizziness, Seizures, Nausea, Weight Gain, Rashes, Fatigue, Irritability, Insomnia, Anxiety, Memory Loss and Joint Pain.

The US AIR Force formally warned all its pilots not to consume diet drinks, MSG, snack foods and Japanese food in their official safety bulletin in May and August 1992 because of the neuro-toxic effect in their ability to fly a plane.

Many other non-military pilots have complained of the same symptoms including seizures. A 1990 edition of Plane and Pilot Magazine told of the story an air force pilot who traced the pattern of tremors and seizures he suffered for two years due directly to his consumption of nutra-sweet/MSG. When he stopped eating Aspartame/MSG his symptoms stopped buy when restarted so did the tremors. Plane and Pilot Magazine reported this case "After using Nutri-Sweet/MSG a pilot experienced blurred vision so severe he was unable in flight to read instruments and very narrowly avoided a tragic landing.

Nutra-sweet MSG causes chronic depletion of serotonin (the happy hormone) a brain chemical and neurotransmitter that regulates mood swings, sleep patterns, and shuts down the hypothalamus and corpus callusum, stopping left/right communication and consequently creative thought. Welcome to Robot Land!

Japan has been the biggest biological experiment in history. Aji No Moto (MSG) (now Monsanto) is a Japanese company and since 1950 has introduced massive quantities of MSG in all foods. Japanese restaurants put it in everything. Yes! Even in Sushi rice, miso, dashi sauce.

Asking any Japanese restaurateur to not use MSG is inviting bankruptcy. The consumer is addicted to it. MSG tricks the brain into thinking that there is more taste. Ask Japanese restaurants for no MSG and they will lie in your face "We don't add MSG". They don't have to. It is in all the sauce mixes. Anywhere in the civilized world Chinese restaurants must advertise no MSG or clientele is small but Japanese Restaurants get away with "The Great FOOD Deception" from Robot Land.

MSG and its close cousin Aspartame are called nuero-toxins or excito-toxins (www.nomsg.com). MSG also hides behind terms like flavor enhancer hydrolyzed vegetable protein natural flavor or in Japan as amino acid and other pseudonyms. (www.truthinlabeling.org). The slow poisoning of USA (www.spofAMERICA.com) reports Americans alone now consume 160 million pounds of MSG a year and yet it's a brain poison. The increase in the consumption in the USA is directly proportional to the increase in obesity.

standard procedure to make laboratory rats fat is put MSG in their food. MSG attacks what is called the brain blood barrier, a defense system that normally prevents toxins entering the brain. Even tiny amounts of toxic substances like MSG and Aspartame can cause brain cell to over react so that it becomes exhausted and dies. Hence they are called excito-toxins.

MSG and Aspartame also cause food craving and makes people fat. The epidemic of obesity exploding across the world is largely caused by these additives, the use of which has mirrored the rise in overweight people.

Another similarity with Aspartame is the way MSG was allowed onto the market without adequate safety checks and most of the later studies into its health effects have been conducted, as usual, by "researchers" linked to "food giants"is. The food corporations that profit massively from MSG say that it is safe!

Aspartame was manipulated though the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) "safety checks" by Donald Rumsfield, the US War Secretary under both Bush presidents and CEO of Searle Pharmaceuticals when he used his buddies in the Reagan/Bush administration to have fundamental doubts about the safety of Aspartame ignored. Searle later sold out the Monsanto and now Aspartame is in a ever growing number of drinks and food stuffs. A trend only stemmed by the fear of class action law suits over its effects on human health...

Ni Zain:

Several food suppliers are able to provide us so called "fast food" or "fast food mixes" without MSG or Aspartame. I found an organic dashi sauce, instant soup, stocks, etc without MSG or any declarations which are unclear. Some items I found now even replace corn, wheat and yeast with rice or other natural ingredients. It is just up to you to make another choice. It is the awareness of what you buy and what you eat. I am asking right now several stores to make clearer declarations on their self produced food. Ask your store around the corner to do the same. If they don't have anything to hide, they will do it!

Salamat Makan!

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