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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 11/10/2012 : 08:34:54 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by sailingsoul
Originally posted by Dave W.
Wait. What's up with MSG? MSG is awesome! Every bag of Cheetos has lots of it.
Mmmmmmm...
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Monosodium glutamate is an acid substance from seaweed. I agree it makes food taste great like chicken and pretty much everything but for me, it's just like aspartame, they both make my elbo joints and muscles hurt at night and gives my stiffness during the day. When I avoid them I getz no pain. Call me stupid , call me crazy, while it's not very scientific it works for me thank you very much. If as you get older you start hurting try avoiding them and see if that doesn't help.
Another thing, whenever I eat to much processed food my body starts hurting and it stops when I cook from scratch, in like my pain goes away. I find the coalition amazing and wonder if it's not bullshit but I'm not going to argue with being pain free. So I wallow in the bullshit.
One thing I found out as I got older and that is young people have no idea what it's like to get old but with luck they'll find out.
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Ultimately, an individual has to go by their own experience, and they can't always afford to be formally "scientific." You may simply have genes that make you have an allergic or other toxic reaction to MGS and aspartame, especially since avoiding them doesn't. Maybe you had an experience with some foods that somehow made your body respond to those additives with allergies. It's not crazy to avoid things that your experience has told you are injurious to you. Not being scientific in such situations is not always bad. Sometimes, it's just the practical way to behave. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 11/10/2012 08:38:42 |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2012 : 10:43:48 [Permalink]
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| I wouldn't be surprised if an "annoyance factor" and nocebo effect were a large part of the problem. But that does not mean that the problem should automatically be ignored. For example, I'm quite intolerant to my neighbors having their music on loud (especially at night) and have, over the years, been known to make some complaints about this. Most(?) other people don't really care or even notice loud neighbors and you could argue that the problem is all in my head, which is true to an extent. I'll still keep complaining, though. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2012 : 11:02:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
I wouldn't be surprised if an "annoyance factor" and nocebo effect were a large part of the problem. But that does not mean that the problem should automatically be ignored. For example, I'm quite intolerant to my neighbors having their music on loud (especially at night) and have, over the years, been known to make some complaints about this. Most(?) other people don't really care or even notice loud neighbors and you could argue that the problem is all in my head, which is true to an extent. I'll still keep complaining, though.
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To me here in the suburban Philippines, it's the nighttime chorus -- nay, symphony -- of barking, crying and howling dogs by the score, horny cats caterwauling, roosters beating their wings against walls (I hadn't even known roosters did that -- it sounds like someone knocking on a door, after which they crow), motorcycles, cars and trucks with their engines straining as they pass by on our narrow, steep street -- nay, alley -- and the curses, singing, coughs, loud projectile vomiting and sometimes crashing falls of drunks coming home in the dark hours of predawn.
But it's all becoming just normal background sound now. I rarely awake unless our own dog barks at an unusual sounding passerby. I guess one can get used to anything, eventually. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2012 : 12:12:43 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
It's not crazy to avoid things that your experience has told you are injurious to you. Not being scientific in such situations is not always bad. Sometimes, it's just the practical way to behave. |
Yeah, if you eat some shrimp and your windpipe swells shut, it's probably a bad idea to say, "well, it may have been coincidental to something else, so I'll retest by eating some more shellfish."
(Well, in that sort of situation, if you're serious about scarfing prawns, you can get tested in a safe way.) |
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