It is available a food additive substance named MSG( MonoSodium Glutamate). When it is added to the foods, it enables the brain to perceive the taste of the food as delicious. It does not change the situation even if it is sweet, salty or bitter. To which food you add it, its taste is likely to be delicious. That’s why the most of the food producers prefer to use MSG.
Is MSG harmful? You will decide yourself after reading the article.
This substance is neurotoxin and it damages nerve cells. It may cause to central nervous system damages and in connection with this it develops the diseases such as Alzheimer, Parkinson, Huntington diseases, Epilepsy, retinal degeneration (eye retina layer damage), fat accumulation, the defect in saturation mechanism, obesity, pressurizing the growth hormone, the defect in pancreas, increasing the insulin and in connection with this it develops diabetes. This substance can pass the barrier of placenta in pregnants and reach to the baby.
It is used especially in chips very much which the children and also the adults eat with pleasure. It is available in many kind of products such as ready made meatball mix, broth tablets, ready made soups, ice creams, colorful yoghurts, etc.
You can say if this is very harmful, why is it still used? In the global world, the trade also was globalized. Aim is to get more profit, so to grow much more quickly. These products are usually presented to the people in attractive and colorful packings. You often meet them on billboards, on tv and newspaper advertisements. They influence our brains not only through their tastes physically but also through the ways visually.
If we make a simple calculation, we see that we consume these products very expensively despite the fact that we suppose them as cheap. For example, in local market you can buy 3 kg tomato 1 pound, however 50 gram chips is 1 pound. Namely, we are not aware of consuming 1 kg chips to the price of 20 pounds. Its negative effects on health are available as well.
When we look back 25 years carefully, there are people who are awarded to live as dependent to kidney machine at childhood, the children who meet diabetes at very early ages, obese children, nervous children, the ones who enter puberty in 9-10 years old, the ones who are born as disabled because of various kind of reasons and this rate raises up over to the country population as %12,etc. The ones who produce diseases do not neglect to produce their drugs. This is also the other side of the medallion. Many warnings were given in newspapers, scientific articles, in media about the drinkings with carbondioxide, hazardous ready made foods. Is there anyone who can understand the seriousness of the situation? The answer of this question is the amount of consumption.
As our current education system is not enough on industry, agriculture and general culture, the new generations are not aware of the danger. Imperialist states do not want the societies which they want to dominate, consist of well-educated people. The important thing for them is their own public and the new explotation sources which they would occupy. We should never forget that we have been living in a world whose life sources dicrease, which lives drought danger because of the global warming, which gets older every year, which the harshness of imperialist states increase, which its balances and maps are desired to be changed.