For those sensitive to this substance, it is indeed a poison. The dose of MSG throughout our foods is increasing. It can even be found in cans of tuna, and injected into turkeys. It is served to us in the finest restaurants and to our children in school.
Older people are particularly susceptible.
There are links, as well, to Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. In the original In Bad Taste Dr. George R. Schwartz explained how MSG works, the deceptive names the industry uses to hide it in your food, and the devastating effects MSG can have on your health. Since the release of the original ground-breaking book, media from all over the globe, including The 700 Club and 60 Minutes , have covered this story. But what they haven't always told you is that medical research has continued to make stunning findings about what the ingestion of MSG can do to the human body. New research has forged even stronger links between MSG and MSG-containing substances and the dramatic rise in cases of asthma, ADHD, migraine, Parkinson's Disease, heartbeat irregularities, and a host of other serious illnesses.