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saigonmonkey wrote:

From personal experience, I'll have to beg to differ with that...

Last year, I started having blinding migraine headaches for no apparent reason. This occurred for several months. Up until then, I had never had very many "regular" headaches, and don't recall ever having a migraine. (Symptoms were severe pain, nausea and "seeing stars" during the worst times.) During that same time period, I was eating lunch almost every day in the owner/managers' cafeteria at the Taiwanese factory where I do business. The cooks are 3 Vietnamese ladies who cook Chinese food. It's just like what my wife cooks at home, except it often tastes better than my wife's cooking. Why? Because the VN cooks are dumping MSG by the kilogram into the various dishes they are preparing. My wife uses very little (and now, none) MSG. During a conversation on the phone with my mother, she said my sister told her to ask me if I was eating food with MSG, because when she ate anything containing MSG in the states, she had migraines. BINGO! I immediately stopped eating lunch at the factory, and within a few weeks, no more headaches.

Headaches are one of several symptoms people report when consuming MSG, especially in soups. Most of the research doesn't dispute those symptoms but where the disputes come in is does MSG have any adverse long term effects on your body. As of yet I don't believe there has been any study to show that it does. Personally I try to stay away from it as much as possible but if it is in the food then so be it.

If you get the aura I know a way to stop a migraine.  I get them but haven't had the actual headache in 25 years because my technique works perfectly

ChrisFox wrote:

The older I get, the more doubt I have about this being unreservedly fortunate.  Seems like more and more "freedom" is invoked as a euphemism for selfishness and lousy behavior.  Dunno if you're from the USA, but if so, find me one invocation of "states' rights" that isn't support for something completely lousy.

You know for someone that is constantly reminding everybody that you have plenty of political blogs in which you can debate highly intelligent conservatives, you sure manage to inject your political commentary whenever possible.

Your deep-seated hatred of America and everything American is borderline psychotic.

There's no such thing as in intelligent conservative.

Hi everybody,

I regret but this thread needs to be closed down. Everything has already been said and everybody has already given their point of view on the subject.

Thank you all for your contribution.


Priscilla
Expat.com team

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