Overcoming the addictive power of MSG

This is not very hard, you just have to stay away from MSG. After 5 days, you will notice less food cravings.

MSG is highly addictive.
This works in two ways at least.

One is because Mono-Sodium-Glutamat (Natrium Glutamat) causes the neurons to fire away repeatedly. This gives more taste, more PLEASURE.
Because it burns down the neurons by exhausting them, you need more Mono-Sodium-Glutamat (Natrium Glutamat) to feel anything. Because it destroys eventually the pleasure center in the brain, you become depressed and you need more and more MSG/Aspartame to keep from being suicidal. All work and no play, that's your life in the end! The things that gave pleasure earlier have lost their power to move you.
(There is the bad side to this : you feel more PAIN in your old wounds if you take MSG).

The second is because Mono-Sodium-Glutamat (Natrium Glutamat) and Aspartame end up in your body transformed into methyl. Methyl is a dangerous poison, which has only one antidote, the blessed ethyl!
When your mate is poisoned with bad liquor, if you are away from a hospital, the only way to save him is by making him drink real vodka.
A burning need for alcohol is a consequence of MSG intake. Which is why eating salted and MSGed nuts make you crave for a shot of vodka-wine etc.
Sugar that your body can use instead (not so fast but still...) can be a substitute. Food cravings are really sugar/alcohol cravings that feed themselves endlessly. Once you start on those it is a dangerous slope.
So the second side of MSG addiction is alcoholism or a dangerously sweet tooth.

During the 5 days of stopping MSG, you should not refuse your body the Sugar it absolutely needs against the poison. Just make it potatoes, rice etc.
And WATCH that hand reaching for your favourite food. Why is it your favourite food anyway? Take time to read the label carefully.
Best wishes and good luck!