The Madness that is Shake Shack - Is it an Expensive Fast Food Burger? A Cheaper Gourmet Burger? (vs. Golden State) - Review and Pics

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I’m not familiar with that organization and didn’t quickly find anything vouching for them. Having had quite of medical background, I generally start with some place like the Mayo Clinic. Here’s what they have to say.

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The organization you have linked to is a known quack factory:

“Excitotoxicity” seem to be a fringe idea that that is used to sell the idea of things like MSG and aspartame as being evil, typically to sell things or create some kind of name/potential profit for certain people/organizations:

A nice overview of the science:

The FDA lists MSG as healthy for consumption:

https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredientspackaginglabeling/foodadditivesingredients/ucm328728.htm

FiveThirtyEight has an interesting article on how the maligning of MSG may be heavily related to entrenched racism:

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So the Japanese should therefore have tons of brain damage complaints since they’ve been consuming MSG since 1909. Don’t tell Anijomoto!

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Interesting.

Lots and lots of those same ingredients are part of daily multivitamin.

Now you’ve made me reconsider my entire life being.

Centrum Silver? Or another Chik-Fil-A sandwich? Choices, choices, choices. Sigh.

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YES! You described what I was kinda/sorta thinking but not as well. I thought ‘niacin,’ ‘iron,’?

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And beta carotene, riboflavin, folic acid and calcium.

Win, win, win, win, win!!

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Great pieces! And I LOVE Science Friday!!! Thanks.

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A C-F-A just opened in Reno and I’m struggling with my ethical self. I soooo want one. Just one. Maybe I’ll have one and make a donation to a pro-LGBTQ organization. ???

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I didn’t either for some time… until my cousin and her wife told me that they still go. That Polynesian sauce keeps them going back for more. I still hardly ever go, but I don’t feel quite as guilty now for the occasional spicy chicken sandwich.

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I won’t patronize CFA because their sandwiches are terribad in comparison to shake shack.

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But I don’t consider “Shake Shack” “fast food.” But I’ve only eaten at the one near the Museum of Natural History in NYC. Don’t have one around here.

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I’m betting some of those are preservatives. I’m turning the big SEVEN OH (NO) in a few days so that’s another plus.

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Polynesian sauce?

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CFA Sauces

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Thanks for that link, but that article doesn’t say one thing about cumulative effects and long-term damage.

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Here are 3 more links to articles/cited research about the dangers of MSG:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/08/28/dangers-of-msg.aspx

https://www.bewell.com/blog/no-more-msg-the-dangerous-food-additive-you-must-live-without/

None of them are on the Quack Watch list, and I trust Dr. Blaylock more than I trust the often-politicized FDA.

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I just intended to post links without the thumbnails, which to me seem like shouting/typing in all caps. I would appreciate instructions on how to do that.

TIA.

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We should ban tomatoes. They are clearly dangerous for us.

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Peddle your chemophobe view elsewhere, thanks.
http://skepdic.com/blaylock.html

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I am not a skeptic on vaccines. Thanks for the link.