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2006-06-02

MSG Addiction and Obesity Claims Spur the "Cheeseburger Bill"

In the aftermath of the takeover of the tobacco industry and the banning of smoking in many public areas in the guise of "protecting us from addiction", government is working on a bill to protect those who knowingly bring us addiction in the very food that we eat.

As you read this, a Bill is being pushed through Congress called the "Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act" also known as the "Cheeseburger Bill" or H.R. 554. This law will ban anyone from suing food manufacturers, sellers and distributors, even if it is found they purposely add an addictive chemical to their foods.

Their contention is that it will help to curb the growing problem of "frivolous lawsuits" in the United States and presents an important opportunity to prevent continued abuse of the legal system.

The FDA claims MSG is safe to eat in any amount but John Erb, a research assistant at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, made a discovery while going through scientific journals for a book he was writing - that MSG will cause obesity and is highly addictive. Scientists, in studies around the world, create obese mice and rats to use in testing and because no strain of rat or mice is naturally obese, the scientists have to create them. How do they do this? By injecting them with MSG. The MSG triples the amount of insulin the pancreas creates; causing rats to become obese.

PubMed, of The National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health contain over 100 articles that seem to substantiate Erb's findings. Just type "MSG obese" in the search box there and you can read them yourself.

Is the media covering this up, fearing legal issues with their advertisers? Have the food producers and restaurants been addicting us to their products for years?

Is the "Cheeseburger Bill" an unsavory attempt to protect corporate profits at the expense of American health?

Gina Weiss

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