You were doing reasonably well, until you stooped to characterizing those so
afflicted. It is obvious that you are not sensitive to bolus ingestion of
MSG. There is nothing whatsoever psychosomatic about it, for me. It is a
clearly defined, and symptomatically consistent experience. Exogenous
glutamate can certainly have systemic effects. I was very glad to have
discovered that exogenous taurine is an antidote, just as taurine suppresses
glutamate sensitivity in the CNS.

Lar

  I eat MSG all the time... no problems.  I use Accent in cooking quite a
bit.  MSG is best used, though, in meatless dishes or soups.  Usually
mushrooms, cheese, seaweed, peas, and meat, etc. already have glutamate in
them, so using glutamate with those foods is not so necessary.

 "Chinese Food Syndrome" might be a glycemic response to the large amonut
of starch/sugar in some Chinese restaurant foods (General Tso's with a large
side of white rice, etc.).  It also might be due to the higher amount of
salt used in Chinese cooking.  People also tend to eat alot at these places.
The results can be the person experiences fatigue due to digestion.  So
there's no single cause.

 They have found that elderly people with anorexia (loss of apetite- not
the mental disease), ate more food when MSG was used, vs. when it was not.
The study was funded by the company that makes Accent, but it's still
significant.