MSG :: MonoSodium Glutamate

Hypertension hits 200 million Chinese
By Shan Juan (chinadaily.com.cn)  |  Updated: 2010-10-24 12:43

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It seems like anything that happens in China always affects millions of people. If there is a landslide, oops there go a million homes.... If there is a flu, oops there go three million to the hospitals...

Well, here is another staggering large number of Chinese people statistic for you:

" ... More than 200 million people suffer high blood pressure in the Chinese mainland and it has become the leading preventable cause of death in China, causing 2.3 million deaths a year, experts said citing latest epidemiology study results at an awareness raising event on October 8, the National Hypertension Day.

The event held by the Chinese Medical Doctor Association and the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in Beijing aims to improve the management of the disease at grassroots levels and promote proper and scientific use of hypertension drugs among the medical workers and patients.

High dietary sodium is blamed as a major factor for the high prevalence of hypertension, said experts. ... "

Two hundred million folks is half the population of the entire United States... and Chinese particular brand of hypertension is caused chiefly from too much Sodium. Here is my question: Is salt used because there is not enough refrigeration? As in, salt to preserve foods? We doubt it.

" ... Why is free glutamic acid added in vast amounts to processed foods? Our large profit-driven food companies have found that manufactured free glutamic acid, in the form of monosodium glutamate (MSG), hydrolyzed vegetable proteins, etc., etc., when added to our processed foods, masks off flavors and makes the blandest and cheapest foods taste wonderful. (SOURCE) ... "

It is a "preventable" cause of death, but these articles only scratch the surface of this titan disease. We will get back to hypertension in the future, meanwhile we are submitting October 8, as National MooPig Hypertension Day, to our busy MooPig Science and Nutrition calendar, as Feed for Thought. It will take about a year for us to clear a desk top for a new reporter. Let's see if we can remember this date next year; after all this disease is the "silent killer."