Some preservatives (eg: preservative 220), alcohol and vinegar have a very toxic effect on my body (my liver is not 100%), and I have found that this toxicity is why I can not tolerate them. When I eat these things my muscles start to ache and my teeth and finger nails feel odd.. later on it has a knock on effect on my immune system.

What food is toxic to an individual can depend a fair bit on your genetics, and of course some here will have happy healthy livers and hence I figure they have no problem with wine, vinegar,etc.

I can eat MSG to my hearts content.. whilst others apparently find MSG to be quite toxic.. and I think perhaps that is why one or two have reported that it worsens their AS.

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"Some men, in truth, live that they may eat, as the irrational creatures, 'whose life is their belly, and nothing else.' But the Instructor enjoins us to eat that we may live." -- Clement of Alexandria (about 200 AD)