Fran wrote:
> Jean Claudes answer about the people who introduced a raw diet was very
> interesting. Bound glutamate is found in varying ammounts in all food and
is
> high in meat and some veggies such as tomatoes and mushrooms. Cooking food
> frees the glutamate (MSG) and makes for better flavour - so you are
ingesting
> a neurotransmitter which over excites the body ( a bit oversimplified).
>

> and are following a cooked (as in stew, soups and casserole) type paleo
diet,
> to go raw or at least rare for a while and see what happens. I know there
is
> no way I can drink soup made from bones or stews made from tougher cuts of
> meat without inducing haphazzard electrical activity in my brain and
heart....
> Many say the same with asthma.

I thought that MSG was something the industry added to food to make it taste
more?! What is this about neurotransmittor and excitement? All cooked food
or just some? What kind of excitement?
Eva - back from skiing