MSG Makes People Fat. Maybe.

Does MSG makes people fat? Or do fat people like MSG? More research is needed to learn the answer. In the mean time, The Washington Post reports that researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health studied 750 middle-aged peasants in three rural villages in China,
where most people prepare their own food at home, making it possible to
tease out any possible effects of MSG.  Even after considering differences in physical activity and
total caloric intake, the researchers found the heavy MSG users were nearly three
times as likely as the non-users to be overweight.
Read more in the Washington Post.
Read an abstract from the study in Obesity.