Eat like a Brasilian!!!!

[redshift]

Sorry for the late reply, and I only have a few minutes.

I use the word headache, but an MSG 'headache' is really much worse. For me it feels as if the neurons are not communicating, like you are walled off from your own brain. I can't tell you how much it takes for me, it's way less than what's in one ramen "flavor packet". It's been many years since I put 1 and 1 together, so I avoid everything with MSG. Sounds easy until you realize it's in almost everything. Salad dressings, bagged snacks, canned and dried soups, condiments, the list goes on and on.

So the headaches are not an issue now, and haven't been for a long time thankfully. The point here is that even if you don't have a reaction to it, it's still doing severe damage. As I said earlier, it's likely most people would never make that connection. They would be easy to convince that they needed this or that prescription to alleviate symptoms that they didn't know the true cause of.

I gotta run, post up your thoughts and I'll have more later.

[lutach]

Originally Posted by redshift

Sorry for the late reply, and I only have a few minutes.

I use the word headache, but an MSG 'headache' is really much worse. For me it feels as if the neurons are not communicating, like you are walled off from your own brain. I can't tell you how much it takes for me, it's way less than what's in one ramen "flavor packet". It's been many years since I put 1 and 1 together, so I avoid everything with MSG. Sounds easy until you realize it's in almost everything. Salad dressings, bagged snacks, canned and dried soups, condiments, the list goes on and on.

So the headaches are not an issue now, and haven't been for a long time thankfully. The point here is that even if you don't have a reaction to it, it's still doing severe damage. As I said earlier, it's likely most people would never make that connection. They would be easy to convince that they needed this or that prescription to alleviate symptoms that they didn't know the true cause of.

I gotta run, post up your thoughts and I'll have more later.

Ok, so let me go into details of why I wanted to know. My daughter eats the same kind of food most Brasilians eat. She loves rice and beans (Not canned beans or that microwave rice) and from time to time she'll eat meats like steak, chicken and fish. Now, she doesn't get any headaches at home, but she already had 3 situation in school where I had to go get her due to her having headaches. I have similar headaches, but mine is tension headaches and it feel like things are just exploding in my head, but here's how things are similar. She usually throws up and takes a nap afterwards and she wakes up like nothing happened and the same happens to me. I mentioned her headaches to her doctor and he said it's not food related, but how come this has happened 3 times so far in school and right after her lunch? It's not stress related as I make sure her daily routine is not stressful, only homework time seems to be kind of stressful for her, but I try to make it as fun as possible. Now, I might ask the health department to check the quality of the school food. What's funny is when she started school, I sent home cooked meals and she never had a situation like she's having now eating school food. I want to get her back to home cooked meals for school lunch, but she wants to eat what the other kids are eating.