Water v Coke

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Of course added to this, is the fact that what they put into these products chemical wise, is usually covered up by references on their labels to a whole range of different names, mostly now coded....even something as simple as MSG has a range of names...this is all done to confuse people.
Example.......I cook a lot of Chinese food.......when I buy spices and the like, I check out what is in them......if there is MSG...I don't buy it.....if there is Ajinomoto....I don't buy it !!!! Why ???? Ajinomoto is MSG !!!!! Plain and simple. But does everyone know that ???? I have had so many people ask me what the heck Ajinomoto is !!!!! LOL

MSG isn't harmful to people- that is actually a myth! There have been numerous studies that show it isn't a health risk at all- though a small percentage of people may experience temporary symptoms from large amounts, but it doesn't require medical care.

http://www.hawaii.edu/ur/University_...URMay/MSG.html

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mon...tamate/AN01251

[Edwina's Secretary]

I was thinking....

yesterday I bought a carton of canned coke. I have houseguests coming and they like coke. In the grocery store the package began to leak...all over me of course.

I assumed it leaked because I had been driving my cart somewhat "hard" and the carton may have banged against the side...causing a rupture in one of the cans.

Now I wonder....if coke can eat through nails in a couple of days...how do they keep it in the cans???

Should I be worrying about the cans in my refrigerator suddenly disintergrating?

And why....if the iron I buy has a warning on it not to iron clothes while wearing said clothes...doesn't coke come with a warning...do not pour on nails?

[Cataholic]

I was thinking....

I assumed it leaked because I had been driving my cart somewhat "hard" and the carton may have banged against the side...causing a rupture in one of the cans.

I am thinking......you might need a warning sign on YOU- driving a grocery cart is serious business! Slow down, slow down (that is what Jones says when I drive too fast).

[wombat2u2004]

MSG isn't harmful to people- that is actually a myth!

Headaches !!!!! Sometimes migraines. In my experience. And what people usually complain of is thirst.
I know of a lot of people who don't eat anything at all with MSG in it.
Wom

[Karen]

Headaches !!!!! Sometimes migraines. In my experience. And what people usually complain of is thirst.
I know of a lot of people who don't eat anything at all with MSG in it.
Wom

Science doesn't know everything about why the human body reacts as it does, and why some people react one way to some things and someone else will have the opposite reaction. This is true of physiology as well as pharmacalogically. Take caffiene - one amount will put some people to sleep, keep some people awake, and have no effect on others ... but too much of it - like so many things - will kill you!

We human beings are tricky critters. When my mother was in college - during and just after the end of World War II, a professor of hers told her with firm assurance that everything there is to be known about the human brain would be discovered in the next ten years.

"Funny," she told me in probably about 1976 - "I think those ten years get further away every year!"

[AbbyMom]

Headaches !!!!! Sometimes migraines. In my experience. And what people usually complain of is thirst.
I know of a lot of people who don't eat anything at all with MSG in it.
Wom

Yuppers. Huby gets migraines from anything with MSG in it. Have to read the labels on everything.

[popcornbird]

MSG isn't harmful to people- that is actually a myth! There have been numerous studies that show it isn't a health risk at all- though a small percentage of people may experience temporary symptoms from large amounts, but it doesn't require medical care.

http://www.hawaii.edu/ur/University_...URMay/MSG.html

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mon...tamate/AN01251

It is no myth. MSG DOES have a negative effect on many people. There was a time when my mom used to use MSG in her cooking. My dad experienced severe swelling in the neck area, and was having a hard time breathing. After going to the doctor many times, and finding nothing, the doctor asked my dad, "Do you have any MSG intake?" He basically told my dad to stop eating anything with MSG. All MSG bottles were removed from our shelves, and we stopped buying anything containing MSG. The results? My dad's swelling vanished completely, thank God! I also noticed I was no longer feeling 'dizzy', a complaint I often had in my childhood/early teens.

Till today, anytime my dad 'accidently' eats something containing MSG, the swelling returns. Whenever I eat Chinese food containing MSG (and I notice this EVERY TIME I return from the Chinese restaurant), I feel incredibly dizzy and have to lie down. My husband also gets dizzy after eating MSG. My mom says eating anything with MSG causes her migraines. Whatever be the case, it has affected most of my family in a negative way, and has been confirmed by our 'tests', and also by what the doctors have told us. We avoid MSG at all costs. My dad will not touch it, at all. I still eat Chinese food or Doritos 'occasionally', but the dizziness it causes is not pleasant, at all. It is also recommended that women during the child-bearing years should avoid MSG. I don't know how much of a fact it is, but I KNOW MSG hurts me, have been there, done that, and will always avoid it no matter what.

As for coke, regardless of whether all this is a myth or not, coke, pepsi, dr. pepper, etc. have always, and will always remain my most despised drink, and the drink I will ALWAYS avoid when there are other options available. Coke, pepsi, and Dr. Pepper all taste like nasty cough syrup to me, only a whole glass full instead of just a spoon. 7up's carbonated bubbles drive me crazy. Orange soda is 'ok' when it comes to sodas, but again, I hate the carbonation. The only soda that I find 'acceptable' to drink is cream soda, and its nice to make a float with, but putting some ice cream in the glass.

Give me water any day.