It is now Day 16 of my eating organic semi-raw trial.

This is just a quick post to get my weight recorded. Last night I was 175 pounds at 14.8% bodyfat.

All lifts are going up and I feel great. I feel very motivated with the new changes to the coaching site and have been enjoying my time working on it. I feel like a lot of things are heading in the right direction.

My diet is still mostly raw and my protein intake is half of what it used to be since I no longer used the commercially made protein powders.

Chow for now.

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A continuation of my 30 day experiment with my diet I also added a list of food additives to that post.

Still trying to make sense of a lot of things with my eating. I tried a raw butternut squash recipe last night and I just couldn’t get it down no matter how hard I tried. I really wanted to like it too because it looked easy, fun and fresh. Wait a minute. Did this just turn into a dating site?
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Monosodium glutamate, also known as sodium glutamate and MSG, is a sodium salt of the non-essential amino acid glutamic acid. It is used as a food additive and is commonly marketed as a flavor enhancer. It has the HS code 29224220 and the E number E621. Trade names of monosodium glutamate include Ajinomoto, Vetsin, and Accent.

Although traditional Asian cuisine had often used seaweed extract, which contains high concentrations of glutamic acid, MSG was not isolated until 1907. MSG was subsequently patented by Ajinomoto Corporation of Japan in 1909. Read the rest of this entry »

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