{"id":25440,"date":"2017-11-03T21:34:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T21:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=25440"},"modified":"2017-11-03T21:34:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T21:34:42","slug":"lifestyle-health-msg-monosodium-glutamate-is-it-best-avoided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-health-msg-monosodium-glutamate-is-it-best-avoided\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle, health: MSG (monosodium glutamate): is it best avoided?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Engaging in more lifestyle self-tutoring, the tutor shares his findings about a topic he&#8217;s long considered: consumption of MSG.<\/h1>\n<p>MSG, I was told as a kid by a cook, can intensify the taste of food. Another kid, sitting at the table as well, said he&#8217;d been advised to avoid it.<\/p>\n<p>For decades I&#8217;ve followed my old friend&#8217;s counsel (although I haven&#8217;t seen him for decades): I&#8217;ve tried to avoid consuming MSG. Often, one food will have it but a similar food won&#8217;t, so I pick the one without.<\/p>\n<p>Today I checked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/healthy-lifestyle\/nutrition-and-healthy-eating\/expert-answers\/monosodium-glutamate\/faq-20058196\">the mayo clinic<\/a> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/nutrition\/msg-good-or-bad#section1\">healthline<\/a>. To me, they both render the same opinion: MSG has been suspected to cause problems, but there&#8217;s no hard evidence it does. Some people may be sensitive to it.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Leech at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/nutrition\/msg-good-or-bad#section1\">healthline<\/a> points out that MSG is often used in processed foods, the likes of which are best consumed sparingly. Someone who eats a good diet, therefore, doesn&#8217;t likely consume much MSG, so probably needn&#8217;t worry unless they find, in their own case, that they&#8217;re sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engaging in more lifestyle self-tutoring, the tutor shares his findings about a topic he&#8217;s long considered: consumption of MSG. MSG, I was told as a kid by a cook, can intensify the taste of food. Another kid, sitting at the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-health-msg-monosodium-glutamate-is-it-best-avoided\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lifestyle, health: MSG (monosodium glutamate): is it best avoided?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1370,181,752],"tags":[2574,2575,2573,2576,2577],"class_list":["post-25440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-lifestyle","category-nutrition","tag-is-msg-a-concern","tag-is-msg-bad-for-you","tag-monosodium-glutamate","tag-what-does-msg-do","tag-why-is-msg-used"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25440"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25481,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25440\/revisions\/25481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}