tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post8387246171863178201..comments2023-10-23T11:24:13.532-04:00Comments on Diabetes Update: Getting Fat? Maybe it is the Hidden MSG in Your FoodJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-54162783892358449312008-09-01T11:30:00.000-04:002008-09-01T11:30:00.000-04:00Great post!Great post!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-68108279351436224602008-08-26T00:34:00.000-04:002008-08-26T00:34:00.000-04:00WLS is Weight Loss Surgery, sometimes called Baria...WLS is Weight Loss Surgery, sometimes called Bariatric Surgery. Junk Food Science has posted a lot about weight issues and policies concerning weight issues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-30799844140029570752008-08-26T00:32:00.000-04:002008-08-26T00:32:00.000-04:00anne, I've read Junk Food Science on and off for m...anne, <BR/><BR/>I've read Junk Food Science on and off for more than a year, perhaps two years. I have a love/hate relationship with it. While I like and admire her dogged ability to see past the stupid stuff that is passed off on us as "science-based" when it isn't, but at other times, she comes across as an an apologist for the processed industrial food industry. It's a strange blog that I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-88842046917263030852008-08-23T21:55:00.000-04:002008-08-23T21:55:00.000-04:00I have read more of Junk Food science and I can't ...I have read more of Junk Food science and I can't say I agree with all I have seen. I can't make comments or ask questions as she does not allow comments. I will continue to evaluate.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16655747133135789559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-86330447583167584682008-08-23T21:45:00.000-04:002008-08-23T21:45:00.000-04:00I am a little confused. You have a link to the blo...I am a little confused. You have a link to the blog Junk Food Science and you say read before signing up for WLS(what is WLS?) <BR/><BR/>I went to this blog and found a post saying the correlation between weight and MSG was a "spurious correlation"<BR/><BR/>http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/08/no-evidence-msg-makes-you-fat.html is the link to the complete post.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16655747133135789559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-70168759938690028932008-08-23T09:36:00.000-04:002008-08-23T09:36:00.000-04:00Bear in mind that glutamic acid is a "natural" com...Bear in mind that glutamic acid is a "natural" component of meat etc. having said which and bearing in mind the quality of the source, have a look at this<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate<BR/><BR/>and this<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamine<BR/><BR/>it's involved in so many pathways that excess could break many systemsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-72739954223428916732008-08-22T15:37:00.000-04:002008-08-22T15:37:00.000-04:00I'm not sure that MSG caused my headaches, but avo...I'm not sure that MSG caused my headaches, but avoiding MSG really improved my diet and that helped my headaches a lot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-81279931312012780032008-08-21T16:26:00.000-04:002008-08-21T16:26:00.000-04:00This is an interesting study because one of the ar...This is an interesting study because one of the arguments that deflated the anti-MSG message has always been the enormous amount of MSG used in Asia by an enormous amount of people and how well they (apparently) tolerate MSG (and the MSG-headache link is shown to be quite weak).<BR/><BR/>Nonetheless, I've been generally avoiding MSG (& the various forms it takes) for some years because itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com