MSG (monoSODIUM glutamate)is another high-sodium compound to avoid if you are overweight.

Common salt, sodium chloride, is the most common high sodium additive to avoid if you are overweight, because it increases fluid retention, but MSG (monoSODIUM glutamate) is another high-sodium additive you would do well to avoid if you are overweight.

Read here about how to lose weight by eating less salt/sodium.

See Sodium in foods

And here is some further MSG information: Dr Mercola's article about MSG.

Ten Tips to Lose Excess Weight

1. Give up dieting! - You KNOW it doesn't work.
2. Cut down on salt and salty food.
3. Cook from fresh instead of eating ready meals, takeaways or processed food.
4. Eat more fruit and (unsalted) vegetables.
5. Eat real food instead of low-calorie or low-fat alternatives or diet junk.
6. Try making your own bread, using less salt or no salt.
7. Cut down on alcohol.
8. Avoid dodgy additives and ingredients like High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)
9. Avoid MonoSodium Glutamate (MSG).
10. Add flavour with lemon juice, herbs and ginger, instead of salt.

What's in an Oxo cube (apart from a lot of salt/sodium)?

Well from Wikipedia today on this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxo_(food) I have copied the following extract: (You will note that SALT is high in the list of ingredients. - All Oxo cubes contain a high proportion of salt.)

"Beef Oxo Cubes

• Wheatflour, Salt, yeast extract, cornflour, colouring, flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate), beef fat, flavouring, dried beef bonestock, sugar, onion, pepper extract.

Vegetable Oxo Cubes

• Salt, potato starch, wheatflour, flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate, disodium 5'-ribonucleotides), flavourings (include celery), onion extract, dried glucose syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oil, carrot extract, yeast extract, tapioca dextrin, dried tomato, dried herbs (parsley, bay and thyme) and sugar.

Italian Herb & Spice Oxo Cubes

• Wheatflour, salt, sugar, potato starch, flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate, disodium 5'-ribonucleotides), herbs and spices (fennel, parsley, basil, black pepper), hydrogenated vegetable oil, dried onion, dried glucose syrup, flavouring (contains milk), dried tomato, yeast extract, tapioca dextrin."

More high sodium foods to avoid if you want to lose weight

• bacon
• ham
• hamburgers
• beefburgers
• Cornish pasties
• Spam
• pâté
• potted meat
• most shop-bought sandwiches
• ready-made sandwiches
• pitta bread
• pikelets
• bagels
• crisps and other savoury snacks (Look for reduced-salt crisps and unsalted crisps.)
• bread (Warburton's and some other manufacturers make some healthy bread with lower sodium content.)
• cornflakes and most other breakfast cereals (check on pack)
• pizzas
• digestive biscuits
• smoked salmon
• smoked mackerel
• kippers

Remember - so-called 'slimming' foods are often high in salt! - You will not lose weight by eating foods high in salt, however low in fat they are!

Most sodium we eat is from salt (sodium chloride), but sodium is also present in MSG (monosodium glutamate), in baking powder, in bicarbonate of soda and in a few other compounds which are sometimes added to food.

Marks & Spencer and Asda will be removing E-numbers from their own-brand food and drink products because of concerns about children's health.

M&S and Asda to axe E-numbers - Telegraph

Extract:

"Artificial colours and flavours are being phased out by two major food chains, it was revealed yesterday.

All 9,000 of Asda's own-label food and soft drink products will be free of E-numbers by the end of 2007.

Marks & Spencer is removing artificial colours and flavours from 99% of its 4,500 own-brand lines over the same period. The changes follow concerns over the effect of certain E-numbers on children's health.

They come after rival food chain Sainsbury's last month pledged to remove artificial colours and flavours from its 120 own-label soft drinks.

Asda said aspartame, hydrogenated fat and monosodium glutamate would also be pulled from all own-brand food and soft drink products by the end of the year. It is spending over £30 million on reformulating the products.

E-number colours will either be replaced with natural alternatives such as fruit and vegetable extracts - or dropped entirely. Artificial flavours will also be substituted by natural ingredients where possible. For example, the sweetener aspartame will be replaced by sucralose which is made from sugar, Asda said."

This is good news. - You can also benefit your children's health and protect them from obesity by minimising their intake of salt. - See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/children.html


Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
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