Biwash prabasi, you don't have to be born in US or Nepal to make healthy food choices.

Probably, eating wai wai once per month is within your tolerance and may not do much harm. But many nepali think that wai wai is a healthy food choice, and many parents give wai wai and other instant noodles as snacks to their kids every day in Nepal. We don't have any studies in Nepal, so we don't know what's going on. If you want to think MSG is less toxic than table salt, good luck with your belief; end of my discussion with freedom.

We all know that poison may be medicine or medicine could be poison depending on the amount we take. People have died by drinking water. But there are certain things we can live without, and MSG is certainly one of the compound our body doesn't need.

Japanese people may eat more MSG than us, and we see them as more healthy than us. But they may have made other healthy food choices and their diet may be better than ours giving them better immune system and higher tolerance.

In Nepal, cases of cancer and kidney diseases seem to increasing at alarming rate. We don't know exactly what are the exact causes.

Biwash prawashi, I eat outside sometimes and I don't eat organic food though I prefer organic. I am not trying to lecture or anything. We are exposed to so much toxic chemicals, and it is difficult, expensive, and not always easy to avoid all of them. All I am saying is that I would like to avoid these when I can. I don't say that US has the healthiest food, but it sure had made me more-informed on these matters. In Nepal, there's not much discussions on healthy food choices. I used to look for the wai wai and used to buy them in boxes because it was so much cheaper to buy in boxes. These days, I try to avoid eating instant noodles.