Fat, Stressed, and Sick: MSG, Processed Food, and America's Health Crisis

Katherine Reid, PhD

Dec 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Connie Shabshab

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Fat, Stressed, and Sick makes the case that processed food compromises health not just because of added sugar, salt, and fat, but also because these foods contain significant amounts of glutamate-aka MSG. MSG makes food deliciously addicting. What was not well-known until described here is that most of the MSG in processed food is created during food manufacturing. As the authors show, food processing of protein alone adds ten grams or more a day of MSG to the average American diet. The book details the research linking dietary glutamate to a suite of inflammatory diseases: obesity, diabetes, autism, addiction, depression, and cancer, to name a few. Understanding the role of MSG in disease became the quest of author and biochemist Katherine Reid when she learned that her daughter's autism symptoms were associated with inflammation of the brain. Reid made the connection between inflammation and glutamate in the diet-a connection amply supported by other studies. In what became an experiment in her home, Reid examined every ingredient on every food label, removing all items with MSG and replacing them with whole foods. The results were swift and undeniable. Reid's discovery that what one ate mattered was the start of a program of food-based solutions to chronic inflammatory illnesses, through which now, a decade later, she has helped thousands of people.

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Katherine Reid, PhD, is a biochemist and the founder of Unblind My Mind, Inc., a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to improving health through informed food choices. Previously she worked in the Silicon Valley biotech industry in the development of cancer pharmaceuticals and diagnostics.

Connie Shabshab loves to tell a story. She has a voice with clear tones and an eclectic range, at ease with romance, humor, drama, and mystery/thrillers. Having been an RN, she is also comfortable with complex medical terminology. She is a trained vocalist and stage actress.

Barbara Price, PhD, has studied topics ranging from climate change to protein biophysics and has turned her passion for science into a career as a science writer and editor. As a senior science development editor for educational publishers, she helps textbook authors turn technical information into narratives that teach.

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