Hi Robert;

I don't really know but it's a good point, although the food industry has 
"...has since removed monosodium glutamate from baby food, and consumers 
have continued to submit reports of adverse reactions to the additive to the 
Food and Drug Administration's Adverse Reactions Monitoring System."  Which 
is good news to know.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/331/4/274

Marilyn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Kesterson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: dietary antigens and food allergy tests - need help


> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:33:31 -0500, Marilyn Harris 
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> "Abstract
>> 1. Rats that had been injected with monosodium glutamate (MSG) 
>> neonatally were studied ...
>
> I won't eat MSG.
>
> Having said that, I wonder about the validity of making assumptions about 
> something you *eat* vs something you *inject*.  Things that you eat have 
> to go through an acid bath in your stomach, mixed with whatever else you 
> ate that day and whatever hormones your body is producing at the moment. 
> All of which gets filtered into your bloodstream over some period of time 
> while digestion takes place.  Things that get injected hit your 
> bloodstream in high concentration, by themselves, all at once.  Surely the 
> effects would be different?
>
> -- 
>   Robert Kesterson
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