Armed with the knowledge of the correlation between MSG and obesity, a bill to protect food companies from litigation in the US takes on a whole new meaning. Known as the cheeseburger Bill, the legislation protects the seller of food from civil liability where it may be claimed that an individual’s weight gain was as a consequence of long-term consumption of a certain food.
Mmmm. Those crackers are so more-ish, I’ll only eat a few you say to yourself. Next thing you know the whole packet is gone! Is it just willpower, or is there another valid reason why some foods make you want to eat more and more of them?
In the main article it describes how an excess of glutamate tells the brain about how much to eat and what to look out for.