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- In the second half of the twentieth-century, the United
States of America experienced a dramatic, unprecedented increase in neurologic
and psychiatric illness among its young people. Serious brain disorders
such as schizophrenia, manic depression, bipolar, anorexia, and attention-deficit
disorder are now common problems for pediatricians to encounter. When
one attempts to decipher the causal factors behind this crisis, an inexorable
conclusion is reached by the objective researcher: the preponderance of
processed food in the American diet is doing irreparable harm to the bodies
and minds of young people. From the day they are born, American children
are bombarded with a steady dosage of highly toxic chemicals in their
food and drink. Most breakfast cereals, microwavable dinners, chips and
other snacks, soft drinks, candies, ice creams and other desserts are
laden with toxins that most people wouldn't give their pets or houseplants.
It's an unfortunate fact that the FDA refuses to ban our even require
proper labeling for these chemicals. Even more unfortunate is the early
age at which US children are being exposed to numerous harmful substances.
One would think that even an agency as financially and morally corrupt
as the FDA would have a finite limit to its lecherousy, but that imaginary
"envelope" gets pushed harder with each passing year. Even
those of you who have grown jaded with the accumulating data suggesting
FDA corruption will be appalled to know that MSG and aspartic acid have
been found, in alarming quantities, in baby food and infant formula.
If you are the parent of an infant, or no someone who is, please take
note of the following information, posted on http://www.truthinlabeling.org
on January 8, 2000. Important facts about common baby products follows:
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- HEALTH ALERT: TRUTHINLABELING WEBSITE: MSG & ASPARTIC
ACID IN INFANT
- FORMULA;
- And IN BAD TASTE: MSG Symptom Complex - Newly Revised
by George R.
- Schwartz, MD
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- TABLE 1
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- Test results in milligrams per 100 milliliters (mL)
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- Aspartic Glutamic
- Acid Acid
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- Carnation Good
- Start .095
.261
- Enfalac Iron
- Fortified .064 1.327
- Enfalac Nutramigen
- Hypoallergenic 18.717 100.880
- Isomil Soy Formula .132
.084
- Similac Lactose
- Free .021
.024
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- TABLE 2
- Test results converted to milligrams per ounce (oz.)
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- Aspartic Glutamic
- Acid Acid
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- Carnation Good
- Start .028
.077
- Enfalac Iron
- Fortified .019
.390
- Enfalac Nutramigen
- Hypoallergenic 5.505 29.671
- Isomil Soy Formula .039
.025
- Similac Lactose
- Free .006
.007
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- In a brochure for their Enfalac formula line, Mead Johnson
Nutritionals stated that infant formula requirements are as follows:
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- 1 week old infant -- 6 to10 bottles of 60 to120 mL (2 to 4 oz.) formula
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- 3 month old infant -- 4 to 5 bottles of 180 to 240 mL (6 to 8 oz.)
- formula
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- Taking an average of the formula requirements given
by Mead Johnson Nutritionals we find that the average requirements would
be:
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- 1 week old infant -- 8 bottles of 90 mL (3 oz.) formula = 720 mL (24
- oz.) formula
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- 3 month old infant -- 4.5 bottles of 210 mL (7 oz.) formula = 945
mL
- (31.5 oz.) formula
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- Therefore, amounts of neurotoxic glutamic acid and neurotoxic
aspartic acid ingested daily by an average infant on each of the analyzed
formulas would be as follows:
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- TABLE 3
- Grams of aspartic acid and glutamic acid ingested daily
by an average 1
- week old infant
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- Aspartic Glutamic
Total
- Acid Acid
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- Carnation Good
- Start .000684 .001879
- .002563
- Enfalac Iron
- Fortified .000461 .009554
- .010015
- Enfalac
- Nutramigen .134762 .726336
- .861098
- Hypoallergenic
- Isomil Soy
- Formula .000950 .000605
- .001555
- Similac Lactose
- Free .000151 .000173
- .000324
- Figures are based on original test results found in
Table 1.
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- TABLE 4
- Grams of aspartic acid and glutamic acid ingested daily
by an average 3
- month old infant
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- Aspartic Glutamic Total
- Acid Acid
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- Carnation Good
- Start .000898 .002466
- .003364
- Enfalac Iron
- Fortified .000605 .012540
- .013145
- Enfalac
- Nutramigen .176876 .953316
- 1.130192
- Hypoallergenic
- Isomil Soy
- Formula .001247 .000794
- .002041
- Similac Lactose
- Free .000198 .000227
- .000425
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- Figures are based on original test results found in
Table 1.
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- Given the vulnerability of the developing brain in infancy,
one can't help but wonder if children are being permanently impaired by
early exposure to the chemicals listed above. Obviously, food products
which contain MSG and aspartic acid should carry with them labels alerting
consumers. But many companies have learned to disguise MSG by inventing
new names to hide it under. Did you know that the hot chocolate your child
drank with breakfast this morning, which contains sodium caseinate, carrageenan,
and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (all forms of MSG), is a neurotoxin?
The same can be said for the microwaveable pizza they had for lunch (hyrdolyzed
soy protein), the potato chips they ate for a snack (monosodium glutinate),
the fried chicken they had for dinner (beef stock, hydrolyzed vegetable
protein), and the ice cream they ate for dessert (carrageenan).
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- In reality, virtually ALL processed foods on the market
contains varying amounts of MSG, including products that SPECIFICALLY
read NO MSG. Why are no members of the national news core conducting
ANY investigation into this outrage? Has their objectivity been compromised
by the millions of dollars in advertising revenue they receive from the
guilty parties in this case? Why are so few elected officials voicing
suspicion about the conduct of the FDA? Why are so many members of government
regulatory agencies also former employees of Monsanto? How many problems
of depression, sickness, crime, and insanity are at least partly attributable
to the American diet? How much farther must our collective health sink
before a SINGLE "respected" journalist will dare to ask these
questions? It's truly sad that in 2000 America, people must be ferociously
diligent when making nutritional choices for themselves and their families.
Eating what you "feel like" or what is convenient is no longer
an option, and infants are obviously unable to make health choices for
themselves. Since we can't rely on our elected, unelected, and universally
unaccountable officials to do the right thing, we must empower ourselves
to protect our children and ourselves.
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