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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: MSG
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 09:30:28 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 09:30:28 1986
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>I don't remember the article or issue, but I remember that Prevention
>magazine had an article on MSG in the past couple of years.  The gist
>of it (as I interpreted it) was that MSG causes extensive brain damage
>in laboratory animals in relatively low quantities (not like the
>sacharrin).  
>Jeff Offutt

I rather doubt that information for the simple fact that much Japanese
cooking (IN JAPAN) uses massive quantities of MSG.  

Either MSG acts quite differently in a Japanese body, or they aren't
really creaming us in the marketplace like we think they are.

(Note:  I know people who have reactions to MSG.  I don't.  It appears
to be an individual thing.) 
-- 

                                     Sue Brezden
                                     ihnp4!drutx!slb

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