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her anxieties were allayed when she learned week or two any time she witnesses unbridled
about the remedy Stramonium. The remedy aggression. She notes that it has been needed
profile fit Benny like an angrily provocative tee- less and less frequently so that in the past year
shirt. Yet, there was a missing piece. Stramonium Benny has taken Stramonium over a period of
is usually associated with a jolt to the central about nine weeks in all, despite the MSG-laced
nervous system as a requisite for its use: a scary lunches.
movie, witnessing an atrocity, a head injury, or With the extra time Benny’s mom had on her
such. Benny hadn’t experienced any mishaps or hands by no longer having to thwart teachers’ and
jolts, thought his parents. Certainly there was the administrators’ accusations and sidestep legal
usual onset of the new school year, but their son issues from fuming parents of injured children,
always adjusted to change with eagerness and it she organized a small band of parents to pres-
was a stretch to consider this a neurological jar. ent a new meal plan to the school cafeteria. It
But then Benny’s mom remembered the incorporated whole foods, including informa-
daily fare of the cafeteria food. The lunch room tion on where they could be procured locally,
was known amongst disgruntled parents for and kid-pleasing healthy recipes that could be
serving MSG-laden Chinese-food-type lunches instantly incorporated. I can’t say for sure, but
twice weekly. Additionally, the school had been I believe a membership to WAPF was included
serving eggrolls daily and Benny adored them. in the package.
This prompted Benny’s mom to visit the school Benny’s school recently hoisted the white
with a request to read the ingredients in the foods flag and surrendered to the nutrition blitz. The
that were being served. She was shocked and an- administration has even shown some gratitude
gered to find that the ingredient list on nearly ev- and agreed to an armistice. No more premade
ery food served (except for the ultra-pasteurized sauces and egg rolls brimming with MSG. At
milk) read like War and Peace. Not only were the least it’s a start.
lists lengthy, but full of an unpronounceable cast
of characters. MSG or its euphemisms appeared TEEN TANTRUMS
on nearly every label. MSG is considered a neu- Lucy Jones is sixteen, but you’d swear she
rotoxin, Benny’s mom reasoned straightaway, was half that age by her behavior sometimes.
and therefore represented the daily neurological The dramatics were always ramped up around
shock that was likely throwing her son’s behavior the time of her menses, but her mother noticed
into a descent. The image of Lincoln being assas- (and so had her sisters) that she was irritable and
sinated flashed through her mind when she glared discontented at other times as well. Most of the
at the cafeteria “chef” who was not only clueless time Lucy was a focused teen who volunteered
of the impact of his choices, but condescending in student council and the church choir, all the
toward her parental concerns. while earning high grades. Because of this gen-
Days later, when the remedy arrived, Ben- erally well-balanced lifestyle it took a while for
ny’s mom was poised to prove that the homeo- her family to recognize that she was becoming MSG is a
path’s and her assumptions were well-founded. increasingly more difficult to live with. This no- neurotoxin

Upon taking the remedy twice weekly for only tion came alive however at the time of her sweet and therefore
a few weeks, Benny was back to drawing army sixteen birthday party.
guys instead of gnawing on classmates. When Lucy wanted to serve only ice cream at represented
he became angry, it wasn’t accompanied by rage, her party. No pizza, no chips, just ice cream, the daily
and he was able to remain focused for most as- in decorative dishes with an assortment of pink neurological
signments at school. In fact, the next conduct toppings. Although her family generally made
report included a few phrases which made his ice cream from the raw cream they got from their shock that was
family proud: “More focused” and even “Kindly local farmer and sweetened it with raw honey, likely throwing
protective of the girls.” Benny was utilizing his this time they didn’t have enough cream to feed her son's
masculine traits in a shielding and chivalrous the crowd invited. So Mrs. Jones bought the
manner. What more can we hope for? commercial version for the party. behavior into
Now his mother gives him his remedy for a Lucy adores ice cream. She also loves milk, a descent.
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