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From The Professionals’ Desks
From The Professionals’
Desks

Healthy Answers–A Guide to Healthy Living:

“An Order of Pork Fried Rice with Extra MSG... Please!”

By Dale Brown, B.S., M.A., C.E.C. sprinter trying to get away. Not too long ago, I had an like canned soup: “yeast extract” in the ingredients might
Dale is a motivational speaker who adverse reaction after eating a salad containing clementine actually mean MSG. This subtlety is frequently missed by
has spent many years as a Certified extract. That night I broke out in a very itchy rash all over consumers, and it’s not just in savory foods–even cookies
Life Coach and has written numerous my body. Obviously, I’ve chalked them off my list of chosen and chips can contain it. Take a taco spice blend, for
articles and e-books relating to self- fruits. example: the label might show “spices,” “garlic powder”
improvement and ways to build a What makes this topic so relevant is my recent encounter and “hydrolyzed vegetable protein,” which is a fancy way of
high-performance team. She is the with a friend who told me that she is highly allergic to MSG. saying MSG. But, like salt and pepper, its job is to enhance
author of the book, “Small Steps... Her reaction occurred after eating at a Chinese restaurant every bite making it fuller and more satisfying.
Big Changes: The Personal Stories and she vows never to go back. If MSG is so popular an ingredient used to enhance
of a Life Coach.” Her education and years of experience For years, monosodium glutamate, a food additive flavor in the many foods we eat, why were Chinese
in physical fitness and training of elite athletes has enabled known as MSG, has been branded as an unhealthy restaurants blamed?
her to sharpen her knowledge in many health-related areas. processed ingredient mainly found in Chinese food. To The debate began in 1968 when an unknown
The following introduces a new approach to Ms. Brown’s this day, the myth around MSG, commonly referred to as person wrote a letter to the New England Journal of
series of columns devoted to many topics that deal with “Chinese restaurant syndrome,” is ingrained in America’s Medicine, complaining of numbness after eating at
the mind/body connection and the importance of living a consciousness. Many people stay away from any foods Chinese restaurants. The idea spread quickly and in
healthy lifestyle. Dale, a Bocaire resident, can be reached containing MSG because they consider it to be harmful, 1969 a scientific paper identified MSG as the cause of
at dalebrown@lovingmondays.com. but chances are you’ve eaten it more than you know in the the syndrome, warning that it caused such symptoms as
Do you ever get paranoid about being allergic to foods you eat all the time. headaches, sweating, numbness and burning.
something? My husband is allergic to wasp stings and if MSG is often disguised as “hydrolyzed protein,”
he ever comes in the vicinity of one he’s like an Olympic “autolyzed yeast,” or “flavoring.” Take an average item Healthy Answers on page 12

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