Fat, Stressed, and Sick

MSG, Processed Food, and America's Health Crisis

By: Katherine Reid PhD, Barbara Price PhD - contributor

Narrated by: Connie Shabshab

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.

©2023 Katherine Reid and Barbara Price (P)2023 Tantor

Hidden secret

Based in science, I wish she had a cookbook or that this audible book came with a PDF link

Knowledge Is Power.

I would suggest this book and anything else this author creates. I am the mother of young man on the Autism Spectrum. We have experienced first-hand symptoms of neuro excitability and periods of pure hopelessness over the last 24 years. I am an RN with over 30 years of experience in the field. I considered myself a complete failure until I found Dr. Reid.
My son and I are on a mission to help others understand that they can be healthy in mind, body & spirit. I have found the work that was done for this book to be highly valuable and it should be taught to all parents. The tools are here and we can do this together! If I ever get the opportunity to meet Dr. Reid, I will tell her how much the information in her book & website has changed our lives. Eternally grateful for her courage & persistence.