someone just told me that Ramen noodles are supposedly really bad for you

[Baliset]

MSG and shit.

i was totally livin off that shit this last week.

 

[chupe666]

well, you'll probably die, but your body will be well preserved.

we'll submit you to a wax museum for the ROCKTACULAR display, with guitar in hand flashing metal signs.

 

[minxnim]

my college roommate ate STRICTLY ramen for 3 weeks once because my mom gave her a case of them to be nice. her nails turned yellow and started breaking and her hair was coming out in excess.
it has tons of trans fatty acids and msg, and also, dyes, crappy nitrate perservatives, and of course heat expelled refined oil. yummm.

 

[FalseTodd]

They are also TOTALLY FULL OF FAT, and loaded with sodium, even without the little flavor packet. That plus they give pretty much no nutrition at all.

I think ramen is responsible for the many skinny-fat vegans / vegetarians out there - lord knows I was one of them. Although I was more on the fat-fat end of the scale...

 

[minxnim]

last i remember they have like 12 grams of fat per serving and 2 servings a package. that is a lot of fat. wow.

 

[FalseTodd]

2 servings a package! That's criminal.

 

[minxnim]

all sorts of things are like that. it's obscene. the other day i was looking out of boredom when i was in line at whole foods and the muffin i was getting had 2 SERVINGS in it. like, who eats half a freakin muffin? also, bottles of juice always have two servings. it's like, wait, what? i have to have half LATER?

 

[FalseTodd]

I think potato chips might be the worse offenders....Yeah you know that half empty bag of sour cream & onion chips you just bought? Please eat that over the next 35 days. Thanks.

 

[Baliset]

i probably didn't notice any change to my heavily insulated stomach region.

i'm with sam on the fat fat end of things, probably more so.

 

[xfer]

in other news, bacon cheeseburgers may cause weight gain.

MSG isn't bad for you, despite the hypey scare of our youth. but ramen noodles have plenty of horribleness otherwise.

 

[lizard]

 

[FalseTodd]

in other news, bacon cheeseburgers may cause weight gain.

So might Godzilla Burgers, my polaroid companion.

 

[minxnim]

msg is just one of like, 4,000 preservatives that can aggravate sodium based vascular problems. (migraines sometimes) no biggie smalls. it has about 20 names, including "hydrolyzed animal / vegetable protein". i mean, it's even in canned tuna fish.

 

[xfer]

yeah, unless you're one of the rare folk who's allergic to it, it ain't nothin'!

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mumami.html

also, sam: i was at eagle's (king kong, not godzilla) last week, and i couldn't find your picture! i'm not sure if i was misremembering where i saw it before or what, but you might want to check it out next time you're in the neighbourhood...

 

[minxnim]

straight dope isn't always so straight i guess. either way, MIT did a cogsci study about 3 months ago and concluded that vascular compression in certain areas of the brain can be exacerbated by large qualtities of MSG in the diet. i know this because my father has facial trigeminal neuralgia and it is also a non-brain related form of potential vascular compression and i always follow up on studies about these sort of disorders for that reason. either way, it's not out of the shadows of being shady entirely. there's still question.

 

[minxnim]

oh, if you have like 900 something dollars you can sign on cognet and read the article prolly.

 

[xfer]

what i should've said was "not really worse than anything else except spring water and not poland springs spring water either".

 

[minxnim]

those probably have MSG IN THEM!!!!!!!!!!! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!

 

[xfer]

also MSG gives you awesome crazy dreams if you eat it before you go to bed.

 

[minxnim]

it's like acid!


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