How MSG Affects Your Body.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains a list of over 3,000 chemicals that are added to the processed food supply. These compounds do various things to food: add color, stabilize, texturize, preserve, sweeten, thicken, and flavor, soften, emulsify and more.

Potential side effects from the additives vary, and are controversial. For just one common food additive, (MSG), for example, the following symptoms have been reported:

• numbness
• burning sensation
• tingling
• facial pressure
• chest pain
• headache
• nausea
• rapid heartbear
• drowsiness
• weakness
• difficulty breathing

Harvard Magazine: The way we eat now.