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Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills
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Manufacturer: Health Press (NM)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.80471
EAN: 9780929173252
ISBN: 0929173252
Label: Health Press (NM)
Manufacturer: Health Press (NM)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 1996-12-01
Publisher: Health Press (NM)
Release Date: 1996-12-01
Studio: Health Press (NM)
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Summary: Insightful
Comment: I found this book to be very insightfull and fascinating. It goes into detail how the brain functions and developes. it talks about how,just through our diet we are damaging ourselves.
Agian it also shows us that the food manufactures are getting away with putting toxins into are food and the government is doing nothing about it.
This is a must read book. Especially mothers that are pregnant or have new borns. This book will tell you what to watch for when feeding you and your baby to protect their brain.
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Summary: Blalock -Excitotoxins
Comment: Dr. Blalock turns up a lot on the internet making dire warnings about all kinds of chemicals and additives that we encounter every day. I'm not sure how much to believe, but this book was well-written and totally believable. Dr. Blalock is obviously very knowledgeable, and the book is extremely well-written. I personally seem to suffer from glutamates gratuitously added to my food by the big food processors, so this book has helped me to understand why. This book answers questions that my MD has never even tried to answer. So -thanks Dr. Blalock.
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Summary: What are you trying to say...
Comment: Not that good. I've read a lot and just felt this book was a bad read.
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Summary: Real-life experience backs this up
Comment: I have had this book for many years and recently skimmed it again. I bought it during the years when my husband was having bizarre symptoms after eating almost any kind of food. He visited many doctors and specialists, and an allergist finally suggested that it might be MSG and referred him to a dietician (who was useless). Since then, we've been on our own fighting this, and this book lifted the fog of ignorance!
I'm an engineer, a conservative and a skeptic. I was not ready to believe that there is "bad stuff" in our everyday food. But based on my husband's experiences, the empirical evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. His symptoms initially only occurred after lunch but not after dinner, even if he ate the same thing. How does this make sense? Dr. Blaylock explains the mystery by pointing out how hypoglycemia exacerbates the effects of glutamate. I was ecstatic when I understood the phenomenon. My husband has a tendency, common in his family, toward hypoglycemia. With lunch being his first meal of the day, he was already in a hypoglycemic state and highly susceptible to the effects of MSG. By dinnertime, his brain had more glucose and was better able to clear the glutamate. Based on this theory, when he accidentally eats MSG and starts to experience the effects, he consumes a candy bar or sugared soda and it lessens the symptoms. (Dessert can be good for you!)
The explanations in this book are the only ones that satisfactorily explain what I see my husband go through every day. He has an immediate and recognizable response to glutamate, which makes confirmation of those theories simple, if not painless.
There is one hypothesis in the book that is contradicted by my husband's experience. He can consume aspartame (diet soda) with none of the effects that he experiences from glutamate.
I wonder how many people are capable of making the lifestyle changes required to avoid glutamate? If you don't have a detector (like my poor husband) to tell you what food does and does not have glutamate in it, you must avoid all prepared food that doesn't have an ingredient list. Yes, sadly, glutamate is that prevalent in our food.
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Summary: Very informative - but deep
Comment: I ordered this book along with another book on the subject of food additives. This book is written by a doctor and is much more technical. I was glad to have both books on the subject. This book is deeper and harder to read, but it leaves the reader who is willing to wade through the information some very somber knowledge of what is going to happen to many people in the long run if they keep ingesting these horrible food additives. Unlike myself not everyone has such immediate and violent reactions to these excitotoxins, but I am convinced that the long term use of these substances is harmful to almost everyone, and some will have catastrophic results. I am not sorry I have this book in my library.
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