MSG and Obesity

By Jon Benson

John Erb, a research assistant at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, wondered what has been causing the rapid increase in the occurrence of obesity over the past 15 years. Though obesity is not a "one-cause condition," some of his digging unearthed compelling evidence against what we already knew to be a danger: MSG (monosodium glutamate) in food.

MSG is only one of the little demons that make up a small but deadly group of offshoot amino acids called excitotoxins, "a class of substances… that bind to certain receptors (e.g., certain glutamate receptors) and may cause neuronal cell death." (Other excitotoxins include hydrolyzed vegetable protein and aspartame.) These excitotoxins have found a good home under the protective blanket of "natural flavorings."

Most obesity is caused by hormonal issues (usually brought on by eating too much of the wrong thing for too long) or hormonal dysfunction (such as hypothyroidism). Still, we cannot turn a deaf ear to the contributing players.

No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese, but, in hundreds of studies worldwide, scientists have created obese rodents by injecting them with MSG at birth. MSG triples the amount of insulin the pancreas creates, causing these animals (and, many researchers believe, humans) to become obese.

Given the evidence, you might wonder why food manufacturers continue to add MSG to their products. Well, it’s because when food is made with MSG, people eat more of it - far too much, in fact. Multiple studies show that MSG deadens the "fullness receptors" in the brain and on the tongue.

What’s the best course of action for you to take? The answer is simple: Eat unprocessed real food.

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It’s Good to Know: Deleting Sensitive Files

When you delete a file from your computer, it goes to your trashcan, giving you a "second chance" to save it. Only after you’ve deleted the file from your trashcan is it really gone.

But if you have a sensitive file that you want to get rid of immediately, you can delete it without taking that extra step.. By using Shift+Delete on a selected file, the file skips the trashcan and is gone for good. If you realize that you deleted the file by mistake (oops!), you can hit Ctrl+Z, within a very limited period of time, to bring it back.

Of course, even when you delete a file "for good," it’s still on your hard drive… and could be recovered. So if you have REALLY sensitive data and you want to make sure it doesn’t fall into evil hands, you need to take a third step.

Third-party programs exist for this very purpose. For more information, search Google for "windows sensitive file delete."

(Source: Zeigen.com)

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