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03-03-2011 01:20 AM |
I'm sure that's often the case, as things like poor glycemic handling leads to lethargy and such;
But a lot of the benefits of healthy eating are long term. Having had the belief that what you were eating "healthy", you determined that you "felt good". Did the good feeling come from the healthy food, or the belief that you had done something good for your body?
Moreover, is "feeling good" an indicator of health? As a chronic anxiety sufferer, I can tell you, I've spent a great deal of time "feeling bad" when it was merely a brain chemistry problem that brought about temporary physical symptoms.
Does MSG give you a headache?
No, it doesn't! Turns out it occurs naturally in many common foods:
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Ripe cheese is full of glutamate, as are tomatoes. Parmesan, with 1200mg per 100 grams, is the substance with more free glutamate in it than any other natural foodstuff on the planet. Almost all foods have some naturally occurring glutamate in them but the ones with most are obvious: ripe tomatoes, cured meats, dried mushrooms, soy sauce, Bovril and of course Worcester sauce, nam pla (with 950mg per 100g) and the other fermented fish sauces of Asia.
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As the article points out, all of Asia is brimming with the stuff, and all of Asia doesn't have a headache. And a four-cheese pizza has as much glutamate as any chinese meal. What's up with that?
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My friend Nic came round. He told me about a Japanese restaurant he'd been to that gave him headaches and a 'weird tingling in the cheeks' - until he told them to stop with the MSG. Then he was fine, he said. I nodded and I served him two tomato and chive salads; both were made using the very same ingredients but I told him one plate of tomatoes was 'organic', the other 'factory-farmed'. The organic tomatoes were far better, we agreed. These, of course, were the tomatoes doused with mono sodium glutamate.
Then we ate mascarpone, parma ham and tomato pizza. Nic felt fine.
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So: without doing blind studies on ourselves, we are terribly bad at evaluating ourselves. We can convince ourselves of anything, and often do.
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