YOU CAN'T AND EAT AND STAY HEALTHY TODAY

What else must we eliminate from our ingestions? A new article states: "Bisphenol A has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been tied to serious disease in humans."
"Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that polycarbonate containers release the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) into liquid stored in them.

BPA has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans."

As nearly as I can figure, there is nothing that is good for you, not even bread and water. If the bread is from white flour it is without nourishment and will hurry you along to obesity and diabetes and cause all the difficulties and discomfort of too much yeast. It may contain pesticide residues. The water may have come from a tainted water source or have chemicals put in it to purify which might be toxic to us though someone who could be wrong has decided it isn't. Now we are told, if we buy water, the plastic bottles it comes in will make us ill. We should also believe that much of the water we buy as pure spring water may not be. It may come out of a tap and be no different than the water our utilities supply us.

As someone who discovered my sensitivity to MSG (I get hives from it), I did a Google search on foods to avoid. The results were terrifying. I may never eat again! Certainly I should avoid all food I have not personally grown in my organic garden...that is, if I could have an organic garden. It would also require cooking, which I sometimes avoid equally as MSG. Since I neither wish to be fatter nor scratch myself to death, I am very careful about reading labels. I pull out a magnifying glass, read labels carefully, and later discover that I will have to spend hours looking up chemical names. I scratched for a very long time, thinking I had not had MSG, only to find that autolyzed yeast is the equivalent. Learning that Parmesan cheese is 1% MSG by weight was startling. At the end of a day, a little of this and a little of that adds up just like calories do to too much.

Even gnawing at the woodwork is no longer a choice. I may be ingesting lead paint particles! There is no hope, alas!!!

MSG, AUTOLYZED YEAST AND HIVES

For those of us poor souls who are sensitive to MSG in our food, I encounter two reactions in others. The first is a headache (I don't usually get that) or hives (you can scratch everything off your bones, or wish to). Many years ago I learned that MSG will engender that reaction in me. Last night I woke at 3 AM feeling as though every mosquito in the world had joined the global reunion on my body. Finally, in desperation, I yanked my body to the medicine cabinet, teeth chattering as I left my nice warm bed, and took two chlortrimeton (anti-histamine) which I will only take at night. After a bit more than a half hour it had taken effect and I fell back to sleep.

With the push of the government on ridding us all of obesity, it is confusing to me why the public has not been made more aware of these additives. I realized that I had mistakenly bought a bag of sour cream and onion baked potato chips, thinking it was unflavored. Stupidly, I fell into the 'gee, these taste good' trap and ate too many before I checked to see what was in them, having checked quickly at the store to make sure no MSG was contained. Sure enough, the ingredients list read 'autolyzed yeast extract'. Now I not only had been poisoned but with the extract it was industrial strength!

The list seems to exclude anything that tastes good...or is it that anything that tastes good is on the list because of it? The reaction to MSG ingestion is not usually considered allergy causing since it does not seem to lead to an anaphylactic reaction. Bully that it won't kill me instantly, but going through life scratching is hardly what I would call a good life. The itching seems to be greatest about 4 PM, 11 PM and in the middle of the night. Apparently this is when my body is at its lowest point, fiven my Circadian rhythm.