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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Re: Vegatable Dip
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Date: Fri, 17-May-85 10:26:56 EDT
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> > >1 tsp	 Accent* (monosodium glutamate)
> > 
> > A good way to insure headaches, dizzyness and cancer.  If your recipe
> > needs this then there is something wrong with it.
> > 
> I eat Chinese food all the time, and I understand it generally has a fair
> amount of MSG in it. I suffer neither from headaches or dizziness. Therefore
> I can only assume your statement, as made, is a crock.
> MSG may increase the risk of those conditions in some people, but to say it
> "insures" them is ridiculous.
> 					Jeff Winslow

	Some individuals are in fact very sensitive to MSG. A friend
of mine turns all red and puffs up with hives whenever he eats Chinese
food. It probably isn't very good for a person in general, but then neither
is salt, and I eat LOTS of salt (i also have very low blood pressure).
-- 
  

jcpatilla

"'Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill !'"